· Private foundation
Mark and Donna Ross Family 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HASBRO CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $35,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL TRUST | $20,000 |
| CROSSROADS | $20,000 |
| ROCKY HILL COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| WINTHROP LITTLE LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| WITHROP YOUTH FOOTBALL | $8,000 |
| THE WINTHROP FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| MI-AMORE | $4,000 |
| RISE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| MCAULEY HOUSE | $2,500 |
| CLOTHES TO KIDS OF RI | $2,500 |
| SOJOURNER'S HOUSE | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| PAWTUCKET SOUP KITCHEN | $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 (FY21–24, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 15 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation3× · 2022–2024 · $47k · revenue +27%
- MAMI AMORE INCORPORATED4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +8%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc3× · 2021–2023 · $18k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- SAST ANDREW'S SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -13%
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2022 · $10k
PINE STREET INN INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +34%
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…
Better lives rhode island is a non-profit agency whose mission is to offer stability, justice, and hope to those in need through advocacy and direct service.
The rhode island foundation mobilizes generosity and motivates change that makes a difference
To organize, plan and provide social services to low income and elderly individuals.
To improve the quality of life for all rhode islanders by advancing solutions to the problem of hunger.
Rental assistance received from a government agency under section 8 of the housing assistance payments program. providing technical assistance and training to low-income rural communities and other agencies in order to provide or enhance…
Hhc's mission is to improve the lives of homeless children and their families. hhc provides homeless children in massachusetts with the nurturing, stimulation and opportunities for early education and play that all children need to learn…
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…
The core mission of the organization is to assist homeless or at-risk individuals and families secure stable homes. this is accomplished by providing a range of services including housing, basic needs, shelter, case management, referrals,…
The rhode island dream center provides hope and holistic support to the impoverished in the greater rhode island area through food, clothing and services.
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.
Adoption rhode island is a private nonprofit organization whose mission is to create safety, belonging and permanency for adopted and foster children, vulnerable youth, and families through compassionate services, advocacy, and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cradles to Crayons Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 55 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 Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds MI AMORE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds ROCKY HILL COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES TO KIDS RI INC ↗
- Who funds THE WINTHROP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds Help the Homeless RI Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION FOUNDATION OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds Stem Advantage ↗
- Who funds WINTHROP LITTLE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds BEAUTIFUL DAY ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PAWTUCKET SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DAY ONE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds THE TOMORROW FUND ↗
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 · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Champlin Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · The Beacon Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Uw Urania C Sherburne
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 Mark and Donna Ross Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Comfort Cases 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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