· Private foundation
Joan V Winiarski & Teresa W Merrill Revocable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $39k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMUNITY CENTER | $16,500 |
| HAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| WCSU CAREER SUCCESS CENTER | $10,000 |
| NEWPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $8,500 |
| ST AUGUSTIN'S CHURCH | $7,175 |
| BOYS CLUBS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWPORT COUNTY | $5,100 |
| BUTLER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFT COLLEGE | $2,750 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND | $2,000 |
| POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS | $1,500 |
| SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY OF NAZARETH | $1,300 |
| RI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| THREE ANGELS FUND | $1,000 |
| ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| LEGACY THEATRE | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- HHHAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $43k · revenue +18%
- NHNewport Hospital Foundation2× · 2023–2024 · $19k · revenue +112%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $17k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- LHLUCY'S HEARTHgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +39%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1k
Newport Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +30%
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.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.
To render medical treatment to patients without regard to ability to pay for such treatment, and to promote a high quality of medical care and other services for the benefit of all persons in the communities it serves.
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.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
The mission of rhode island health care association is to enhance its members' ability to provide sustainable quality health care and quality of life to the residents of rhode island's skilled nursing facilities.as a state affiliate of the…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Delivering health with care.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child and Family Services of Newport County and the most unlike its peers is Three Angels Fund. 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 42 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 — 0.0% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 68 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 HAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Newport Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc ↗
- Who funds BUTLER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF NEWPORT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA ↗
- Who funds LUCY'S HEARTH ↗
- Who funds LIGHTBRIDGE HOSPICE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Newport Hospital ↗
- Who funds THREE ANGELS FUND ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT FILM INC ↗
- Who funds Edward King House Senior Center Inc ↗
- Who funds The Yellow Tulip Project ↗
- Who funds FABNEWPORT INC ↗
- Who funds NORWICH ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE & MAIN ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SAILING HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS & EVENTS ASSOCIATION 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 · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Ejmp Fund for Philanthropy · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · The Champlin Foundation · Gruben Charitable Foundation · Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust · Bazarsky Family Foundation · The Beacon Foundation · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable 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 V Winiarski & Teresa W Merrill Revocable Trust 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.
- Norwich Arts Center Inc — 86% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Addison County Home Health Hospice Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Legacy Theatre Inc — 1% 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.