· Private foundation
Joan and Leonard Engle Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CUMMINGS JEWISH CENTRE FOR SENIORS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| WHEATON COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| BUTLER HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| RABBI ANGELA BUCHDAHI DISCRETIONARY FUND | $2,250 |
| CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +29%
- WWWOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILYone grant, 2022 · $2k
- CHCLASSICAL HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Trinity Repertory Company ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- 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 Catie's Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI ↗
- Who funds THE SANDRA BORNSTEIN HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds REWEAVE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joan and Leonard Engle Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joan and Leonard Engle Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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