· Private foundation
Mabel T Woolley Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY | $30,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC RADIO | $20,000 |
| THE SANDRA FEINSTEIN GAMM THEATER | $20,000 |
| PROVIDENCE COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| PROVIDENCE PRESERVATION SOCIETY | $12,500 |
| PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $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 |
| MAE ORGANIZATION | $5,000 |
| PROVIDENCE ATHENAEUM | $5,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY STRING PROJECT | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mabel T Woolley Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mabel T Woolley Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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