· Private foundation
Markstone Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GAMM THEATRE | $45,000 |
| CROSSROADS RI | $12,500 |
| ECONOMIC PROGRESS INSTITUTE | $12,500 |
| WESTMINISTER UNITARIAN CHURCH | $12,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF RI | $10,000 |
| SOJOURNER HOUSE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES | $5,000 |
| RI COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| RI FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| THE PROVIDENCE EYE | $1,000 |
| SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION | $250 |
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 (FY22–25, $52k) 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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SANDRA FEINSTEIN-GAMM THEATRE4× · 2022–2025 · $123k · revenue +21%
SOJOURNER HOUSE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $26k · revenue +128%- TETHE ECONOMIC PROGRESS INSTITUTE3× · 2022–2025 · $23k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- CMCOMMUNITY MUSICWORKSone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -73%
- RIRHODE ISLAND SPONSORING EDUCATIONone grant, 2024 · $2k
- NINONVIOLENCE INSTITUTEone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
Advancement of fiscally responsible government, competitive tax policies, and economic opportunities for all in rhode island by providing objective and nonpartisan research and analysis.
To protect women's health and reproductive choice through advocacy in rhode island.
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.
Through civic engagement, policy advancement and artivism, The Womxn Project takes action to secure reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ rights and government transparency in Rhode Island.
Invests in women and girls through research, advocacy, grant making and strategic partnerships designed to achieve gender equity through systemic change.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 24 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 SANDRA FEINSTEIN-GAMM THEATRE ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ECONOMIC PROGRESS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE EYE ↗
- Who funds NONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DAY ONE ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE 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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Markstone Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Markstone Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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