· Private foundation
Mabel T Woolley Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY | $30,000 |
| THE SANDRA FEINSTEIN GAMM THEATER | $20,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC RADIO | $20,000 |
| PROVIDENCE COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $12,500 |
| PROVIDENCE PRESERVATION SOCIETY | $12,500 |
| COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS RI | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS | $10,000 |
| PROVIDENCE PROMISE | $7,500 |
| SAVE THE BAY | $7,500 |
| PROVIDENCE ATHENAEUM | $5,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC | $5,000 |
| MAE ORGANIZATION | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY STRING PROJECT | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
17 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
Trinity Repertory Company9× · 2017–2025 · $260k · revenue +52%
Community Libraries of Providence9× · 2017–2025 · $185k · revenue +6%
SANDRA FEINSTEIN-GAMM THEATRE9× · 2017–2025 · $118k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- UUCAPone grant, 2018 · $10k
- DPDOWNTOWN PROVIDENCE PARKS CONSERVANCYone grant, 2017 · $8k
- PPPAWTUCKET PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…
Trinity academy for the performing arts utilizes an interdisciplinary arts-integrated program to prepare our artist-scholars for collegiate and professional success.
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…
The mission of pvd prep is to prepare a diverse group of providence middle school students for college preparatory high schools.
To ensure continued excellence in library services for the providence public library community by providing private funding to enhance programs and services.
Advancement of fiscally responsible government, competitive tax policies, and economic opportunities for all in rhode island by providing objective and nonpartisan research and analysis.
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…
To promote personal and community enrichment by providing opportunities that enable the reading, writing, making and sharing of books.
The mission of the providence children's museum is to inspire and celebrate learning through active play and exploration. the museum welcomes children and adults of all ages and backgrounds and from all communities although its focus is on…
The Providence Eye is a nonprofit journalistic initiative devoted to informing and empowering the public about events and issues of concern to residents and visitors of Providence, RI, and environs.
The Latino Policy Institute works to stimulate public policy discourse by examining and communicating the evolving experiences of the Latino community in Rhode Island. LPI is committed to educating, activating, and motivating community…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels of Ri Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community String Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 27 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 RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds Trinity Repertory Company ↗
- Who funds Community Libraries of Providence ↗
- Who funds SANDRA FEINSTEIN-GAMM THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PROMISE ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ATHENAEUM ↗
- Who funds Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF RI INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY STRING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FIRSTWORKS ↗
- Who funds MAE ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds 134 Collaborative ↗
- Who funds THE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC ↗
- Who funds OPENDOORS ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
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 · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · Amica Companies Foundation · Frederick C Tanner Memorial Fund · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Mary D Chafee Fund Co Mark Chafee · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Pearle W & Martin M Silverstein 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 Mabel T Woolley 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 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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