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McAdams 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE | $75,000 |
| ST ANDREWS SCHOOL | $45,000 |
| CRESTONE CHARTER SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF RI | $30,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
19 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SAST ANDREW'S SCHOOL3× · 2021–2024 · $68k · revenue +0%
- CCCRESTONE CHARTER SCHOOL3× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +55%
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF RHODE ISLAND INC2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- DCDICKEY CENTERone grant, 2021 · $500k
- SJST JOHN'S CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $10k
IN-SIGHTone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -56%
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 mission of pvd prep is to prepare a diverse group of providence middle school students for college preparatory high schools.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The mission of the greene school is to organize, operate and promote a not-for-profit educational institution in western rhode island that shall emcompass a charter and/or independent school and that shall be at all times operated in…
Suffield Academy is a coeducational independent secondary school serving a diverse student body of day and boarding students from across the United States and from many foreign counties. The school is grounded in a tradition of academic…
The school designs and implements academically challenging programs tailored to students'individual learning needs. engaging families and community organizations as partners in learning, the school promotes creativity, understanding, and…
The purpose of the school is to promote, advance and sponsor charitable and educational activities.
Trinity academy for the performing arts utilizes an interdisciplinary arts-integrated program to prepare our artist-scholars for collegiate and professional success.
River valley charter school provides students in grades 7-12 with a rigorous, standards-based college preparatory program in a small school environment that allows for personal attention to each student and encourages strong family…
The robert louis stevenson school's mission is to provide a college preparatory program for bright adolescents who have not reached their potential in more traditional school settings. the program provides every student individually…
Rippowam Cisqua School creates independent thinkers, confident communicators, and engaged leaders who respect and contribute meaningfully to a diverse and increasingly complex global society.
The baxter academies of maine is an educational institution that established and operates public charter schools in maine.
To provide a program for young men in a unique, one-year postgraduate environment to prepare for the rigors of college and beyond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rhode Island Mayoral Academy (Sm) Blackstone Valley and the most unlike its peers is The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 27 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 THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CRESTONE CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND MAYORAL ACADEMY (SM) BLACKSTONE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds IN-SIGHT ↗
- Who funds THE BIG PICTURE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING ↗
- Who funds PAUL CUFFEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE BARRINGTON LAND CONSERVATION TRUST 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 · The Champlin Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The White Family Foundation · The Chase Family Foundation · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust
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 McAdams 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.
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 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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