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Marasco & Nesselbush 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of MARASCO & NESSELBUSH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF RHODE ISLAND | $2,500 |
| NARRAGANSETT LIONS CLUB | $2,500 |
| THE AUTISM PROJECT | $2,500 |
| PROJECT HAND UP | $2,000 |
| CLOTHES TO KIDS RI | $2,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHERN RI | $1,850 |
| PAN-MASS CHALLENGE | $1,500 |
| SOJOURNER HOUSE INC | $1,250 |
| TOMAQUAG MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| JONNYCAKE CENTER FOR HOPE | $1,000 |
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, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
SOJOURNER HOUSE INC5× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue ×11
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $11k · revenue +20%
Boys & Girls Club of Northern Rhode Island3× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- SMST MARY'S HOME FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -93%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
- TATHE ALS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k
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 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…
The mission of NAMI Rhode Island is to educate the public about mental illness; to offer resources and support to all whose lives are touched by mental illness; to advocate at every level to ensure the rights and dignity of those with…
To assist rhode islanders with differing abilities in their efforts to achieve full inclusion in society and to exercise their civil and human rights through the provision of legal advocacy.
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…
Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council's mission is to promote changes wthin communities in Rhode Island that encourages, inspires and makes possible for individuals with disabilities to create, pursue and achieve lives that are…
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…
United way's mission is uniting our community and resources to build racial equity and opportunities for all rhode islanders.
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…
The purpose of the ricadv is to eliminate domestic violence in rhode island our mission is to support and enhance the work of our member agencies and to provide leadership on the issue of domestic violence.
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…
To protect women's health and reproductive choice through advocacy in rhode island.
The rhode island foundation mobilizes generosity and motivates change that makes a difference
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adoption Rhode Island and the most unlike its peers is Katie E Decubellis Memorial Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 47 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 SOJOURNER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Northern Rhode Island ↗
- Who funds Higher Ground International ↗
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF RI INC ↗
- Who funds THE PROVIDENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NARRAGANSETT LIONS CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF RI INC ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES TO KIDS RI INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds OPERATION STAND DOWN RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds The Autism Project ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ADOPTION RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HAND UP ↗
- Who funds ALDERSBRIDGE COMMUNITIES (F/K/A UNITED METHODIST ELDER CARE) ↗
- Who funds WOMAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds MCAULEY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KATIE E DECUBELLIS MEMORIAL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE ARARAT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF US ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Women's Fund of Rhode Island ↗
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 Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Champlin Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · The Beacon Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn
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 Marasco & Nesselbush 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 0% of income from government
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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