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Markstone Family 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $34k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROSSROADS RI | $12,500 |
| WESTMINISTER UNITARIAN CHURCH | $11,500 |
| THE GAMM THEATRE | $10,000 |
| SOJOURNER HOUSE | $5,000 |
| RI COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| RHODE ISLAND SPONSORING EDUCATION | $2,000 |
| NON VIOLENCE INSTITUTE | $1,500 |
| THE PROVIDENCE EYE | $1,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| THE FISTULA FOUNDATION | $750 |
| ROSIES PLANCE | $250 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $248 |
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 (FY22–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
SANDRA FEINSTEIN-GAMM THEATRE3× · 2022–2024 · $78k · revenue +21%
SOJOURNER HOUSE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $16k · revenue +128%- TETHE ECONOMIC PROGRESS INSTITUTE2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- CMCOMMUNITY MUSICWORKSone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -73%
DAY ONEone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +4%- RCRI COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESSone grant, 2022 · $1k
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 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.
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…
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 women's resource center empowers survivors by providing trauma-informed services with equity and compassion while working collaboratively with the community to eliminate the root causes of interpersonal abuse.
Through civic engagement, policy advancement and artivism, The Womxn Project takes action to secure reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ rights and government transparency in Rhode Island.
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…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
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…
To provide quality journalism and compelling storytelling that informs, educates, and inspirescommunity.
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…
United way's mission is uniting our community and resources to build racial equity and opportunities for all rhode islanders.
To protect women's health and reproductive choice through advocacy in rhode island.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sojourner House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Providence Eye. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 21 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 SANDRA FEINSTEIN-GAMM THEATRE ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ECONOMIC PROGRESS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DAY ONE ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE EYE ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
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 · Billy Andrade-Brad Faxon Charities for Children Inc · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · The Pearle W & Martin M Silverstein Foundation · Ira S& Anna Galkin Charitable Tr · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Nordson Corporation 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 Markstone Family 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.
- Rosie's Place 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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