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JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY
Educational activities
$103M
Granted FY2023
1
Grants
1
Communities
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0165% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.
Philanthropy$102kRecreation & Sports$10kPublic Benefit$6kOther$63k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
food hungry
2020
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2021
—
2022
food hungry
2023
food hungry
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$801M
Total assets
Largest grants
- DOWNTOWN PROVIDENCE PARK NETWORK$10,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 18% of JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in RI; read by stated purpose it is 63% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITYlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient addressRecipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Your field
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.
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Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless Inc
The coalition works collaboratively to create and advance lasting solutions to prevent and end homelessness in rhode island.
Housing & Shelter
2
Rhode Island Community Food Bank
To improve the quality of life for all rhode islanders by advancing solutions to the problem of hunger.
Food & Nutrition
3
The Recycling Partnership Inc
Protecting natural resources, building more sustainable communities, and ensuring that everyone who wants to recycle can recycle is at the heart of everything we do.
Environment
4
United Way of Charlotte County Inc
Mobilizing the power of our community to break the cycle of poverty.
Philanthropy
5
United Way of Connecticut Inc
The mission of united way of connecticut is to help the people of connecticut to thrive through trusted partnerships and innovative solutions.
Philanthropy
6
United Food Bank
Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.
Food & Nutrition
7
Preserve Rhode Island
To protect historic structures and unique places in ri for current and future generations.
Arts & Culture
8
United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc
United way uses collective giving to build pathways to economic opportunity for all, primarily through neighborhood-based, grassroots and responsive solutions. at united way, we find fresh solutions to solveour regions most urgent…
Philanthropy
9
Habitat for Humanity of Rhode Island - Greater Providence Inc
Ecumenical christian organization dedicated to eliminating substandard housing and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. the orignaization works in partnership wth people in need, building
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Union Rescue Mission
We embrace people experiencing homelessness with the compassion of christ - giving hope and healing for a changed life - helping them find their way home.
Human Services
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Harrison Hotel Inc
The organization's mission is to provide affordable housing to the local community.
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The Rhode Island Community Foundation
The rhode island foundation mobilizes generosity and motivates change that makes a difference.
Philanthropy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crossroads Rhode Island and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity of the. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
06the grantee network
17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Philanthropy$102,401Other$62,733Recreation & Sports$10,000Public Benefit$6,098
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.
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.
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organisation JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
- United Way Miami Inc — 15% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: UNITED STATES CHALLENGE CUP.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~0 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 223019734 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on UNITED STATES CHALLENGE CUP, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Johnson & Wales University?
Find your warmest path to Johnson & Wales University through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines