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Luke Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $104k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOMEN AND INFANTS HOSPITAL | $70,000 |
| BLACKSTONE VALLEY TOURISM COUNCIL | $33,100 |
| INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HONOLULU HARVEST CHINESE CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE CHURCH | $20,000 |
| RI ASSOC OF CHINESE AMERICANS | $15,400 |
| CITY OF CENTRAL FALLS | $10,000 |
| SAMARITANS RI | $6,000 |
| ELISHA PROJECT | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CHINESE FOLKART WORKSHOP | $5,000 |
| SHEA HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| CUMBERLAND HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| WILLIAM M DAVIES TECH HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| JACQUELINE T WALSH HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
31 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 5 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
BLACKSTONE VALLEY TOURISM COUNCIL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $295k · revenue +70%- ILINTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +36%
WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI4× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $30k
- CCCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLANDone grant, 2018 · $14k
- PSPAWTUCKET SCHOOL DEPARTMENTone grant, 2017 · $13k
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.
The ywca rhode island provides cultural, educational and recreational programs specifically for women, girls and young children.
Ri chiefs of police gather to share information on new or proposed state laws and maintaining best methods for state's citizens' protection
The university of rhode island alumni association informs and engages current and future alumni as committed partners of the university, its missions and traditions.
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…
CCCC offers physical, social, recreational, educational, and health programs to citizens of Rhode Island. CCCC provides individuals and families with the tools they need to live independent, healthy, productive, and successful lives.
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
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…
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…
Bryant University's mission is to educate and inspire students to discover their passion and become innovative leaders with character around the world.
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…
To represent every constituency of healthcare leadership, as well as health insurance, consumer and public interest. to work collaboratively, come up with innovative solutions, champion changes throughout our organizations, and dedicate…
The mission of the rhode island interscholastic league is to provide educational opportunities for students through interscholastic athletics and supports member schools through governance, leadership, and athletic program administration.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rhode Island College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Elisha Project. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% 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.
23 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. 23 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 BLACKSTONE VALLEY TOURISM COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS ↗
- Who funds WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLACKSTONE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ELISHA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PAWTUCKET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON CHINESE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PROVIDENCE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Samaritans Inc ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RI COMMUNITIES FOR ADDICTION RECOVERY EFFORTS 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 Champlin Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Beacon Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Pawtucket Red Sox James J Skeffington Charitable Foundation · Navigant Credit Union
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 Luke Charitable 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.
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