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Mabel T Woolley Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$175k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
7%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$4.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Mabel T Woolley Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentEmploymentHuman ServicesOther
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
FY2025still arriving16$175k6%
FY202415$170k7%
FY202310$173k0%
FY202213$160k15%
FY202113$143k15%
FY202012$139k8%
FY201914$137k43%
FY201810$165k30%
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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$836kEducation$367kFood & Nutrition$106kEnvironment$41kHuman Services$15kPhilanthropy$10kHousing & Shelter$8kEmployment$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 20 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($144k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mabel T Woolley Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRhode Island Public Radio: $275,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetTrinity Repertory Company: $260,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Libraries of Providence: $185,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetSandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre: $117,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetProvidence Preservation Society: $56,500 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetCommunity Preparatory School: $53,700 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetProvidence Public Library: $50,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Musicworks: $42,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSave the Bay Inc: $41,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetProvidence Promise: $38,500 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetProvidence Athenaeum: $37,523 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetRhode Islanders Sponsoring Education: $22,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCommunity String Project Inc: $9,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetFirstworks: $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMae Organization Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budget134 Collaborative: $5,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetThe Jonnycake Center of Westerly Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOpendoors: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBarrington Public Library Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

The Champlin FoundationPA34.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mabel T Woolley Trust?

Find your warmest path to Mabel T Woolley Trust 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 Mabel T Woolley Trust

How much does Mabel T Woolley Trust give?
Mabel T Woolley Trust reported 16 grants totaling $175,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Mabel T Woolley Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (60%), Education (27%), Food & Nutrition (8%).
Who are Mabel T Woolley Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rhode Island Public Radio ($275k), Trinity Repertory Company ($260k), Community Libraries of Providence ($185k).
Does Mabel T Woolley Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mabel T Woolley Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mabel T Woolley Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Champlin Foundation, The Rhode Island Community Foundation, June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated.
Where is Mabel T Woolley Trust based?
Mabel T Woolley Trust is based in TX.

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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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