· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (FY22–22, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
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
How this is measured
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%
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 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.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 27 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 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 AMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PAUL CUFFEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE BARRINGTON LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McAdams Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McAdams Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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