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Joseph C and Blanche Coutu Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$80k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2026
7
Organizations funded FY2025
29%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$7,200
Largest grant, FY2026
$36,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 7
FY2018 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
1
Total assets, FY2026
$543k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 29% of the organizations Joseph C and Blanche Coutu Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving7$80k0%
FY20257$40k29%
FY20246$40k0%
FY20236$40k0%
FY20226$44k0%
FY20216$34k50%
FY20205$21k0%
FY20185$42k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$194kYouth Development$25kHuman Services$24kHousing & Shelter$21kFood & Nutrition$15k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($262k), not named here.

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.

Washington Trust Co Charitable FdnRI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · The Champlin Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Joseph C and Blanche Coutu Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Joseph C and Blanche Coutu Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Joseph C and Blanche Coutu Foundation

How much does Joseph C and Blanche Coutu Foundation give?
Joseph C and Blanche Coutu Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $80,400 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2025.
What does Joseph C and Blanche Coutu Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (69%), Youth Development (9%), Human Services (9%).
Who are Joseph C and Blanche Coutu Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: McAuley Corporation ($32k), Boys & Girls Clubs of Pawtucket ($25k), Crossroads Rhode Island ($21k).
Does Joseph C and Blanche Coutu Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joseph C and Blanche Coutu Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Joseph C and Blanche Coutu Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn, The Champlin Foundation, Amica Companies Foundation.
Where is Joseph C and Blanche Coutu Foundation based?
Joseph C and Blanche Coutu Foundation is based in RI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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