· Private foundation
John D & K a Johnston Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE | $5,000 |
| MEETING STREET SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ST CLARE HOME INC IN NEWPORT | $5,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND | $3,000 |
| VISITING NURSE SERVICES NEWPORT COUNTY | $2,500 |
| NEWPORT CONTEMPORARY BALLET | $2,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF RI | $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 (FY17–25, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE8× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +27%- STSAIL TO PREVAIL6× · 2018–2023 · $22k · revenue +25%
FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC4× · 2019–2025 · $17k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- LULOOKING UPWARDS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +55%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE INCone grant, 2019 · $5k
SAVE THE BAY INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -35%
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.
To assist rhode islanders with differing abilities in their efforts to achieve full inclusion in society and to exercise their civil and human rights through the provision of legal advocacy.
Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council's mission is to promote changes wthin communities in Rhode Island that encourages, inspires and makes possible for individuals with disabilities to create, pursue and achieve lives that are…
To provide day and residential programs for treatment of autism and other developmental disabilities to clients within the rhode island area.
Refocus is a human service agency that serves adults with differing physical and developmental needs. we are an organization of dedicated people offering opportunities for growth in a loving, trusting, and challenging environment. we value…
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…
The organization's mission is to eliminate health disparities in rhode island and beyond. the organization develops innovative public health programs, conducts translational and policy research, provides clinical services, and trains…
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…
To respect all older adults by hearing their voice, healing their hearts, building community, and delivering exceptional and equitable healthcare.
The mission of NAMI Rhode Island is to educate the public about mental illness; to offer resources and support to all whose lives are touched by mental illness; to advocate at every level to ensure the rights and dignity of those with…
Preservation of affordable housing in the state of rhode island
The parent support network of ri is a group of parents, family members, transition age youth, and adults with behavioral health lived experience who are committed to supporting and assisting peers and working with statewide and national…
The purpose of the ricadv is to eliminate domestic violence in rhode island our mission is to support and enhance the work of our member agencies and to provide leadership on the issue of domestic violence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Looking Upwards Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shri Service Corps. 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 49 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) — 0% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 34 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 CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE ↗
- Who funds SAIL TO PREVAIL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds LUCY'S HEARTH ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SHRI SERVICE CORPS ↗
- Who funds IN-SIGHT ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT CONTEMPORARY BALLET ↗
- Who funds LOOKING UPWARDS INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds Newport Hospital ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON SOCIETY OF RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds The Autism Project ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANTOINE RESIDENCE ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF RI INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF RI INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAYS TO CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds FRANK OLEAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRODEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT ↗
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 · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Vigneron Memorial Fund · The Beacon Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Cvs Health Charity Classic Inc · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Ppl 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 John D & K a Johnston 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.