· Private foundation
Joan and Leonard Engle Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k47 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HASBRO CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND | $18,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI SEMITISM | $10,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM | $4,300 |
| MIRIAM HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $3,500 |
| JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES | $3,000 |
| BUTLER HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| CUMMINGS JEWISH CENTRE FOR SENIORS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| WHEATON COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| RABBI ANGELA BUCHDAHI DISCRETIONARY FUND | $2,250 |
| CAMP STREET COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2023, 19 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- JAJEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND6× · 2018–2023 · $113k · revenue +6%
Vanderbilt University6× · 2018–2023 · $47k · revenue +65%- RPROSIE'S PLACE INC6× · 2018–2023 · $21k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- PSPROJECT SMILE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +62%
- WWWOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILYone grant, 2022 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our purpose is to offer our skills and hearts to help patients and families live each day with hope and dignity.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
To help vulnerable children and their families build permanent, positive change.
We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health of new england is a member of trinity health.
Children's services
To be a proactive advocate for the hospitals in rhode island that is capable of working for and with the hospitals to positively influence public opinion, legislative outcomes and regulatory policy. the purpose of such advocacy is to…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Rhode island kids count, inc. is a not-for-profit corporation. the organization is a children's policy and advocacy organization that provides information on child well-being, stimulates dialogue on children's issues, and promotes…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adoption Rhode Island and the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 120 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds The Miriam Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BUTLER HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Trinity Repertory Company ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC ↗
- Who funds BUTTON HOLE ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds The Gordon School ↗
- Who funds THE LIFE IS GOOD PLAYMAKER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds KING SOLOMON HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESOURCE CENTER OF WESTERN MAINE ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI ↗
- Who funds Catie's Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SANDRA BORNSTEIN HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds REWEAVE INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SMILE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Eugene P Schwartz Family Foundation · Billy Andrade-Brad Faxon Charities for Children Inc · The Beacon Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Joan and Leonard Engle Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Needham Community Council Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Animal Shelter Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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