· Private foundation
Meehan Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $177k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY | $20,000 |
| JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER | $17,000 |
| LINCOLN SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| CROSSROADS RI | $15,000 |
| THE LEARNING COMMUNITY | $15,000 |
| RI COALITION AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE | $15,000 |
| PORTSMOUTH ABBEY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| AMOS HOUSE | $15,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| PROVIDENCE ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| RISPCA | $10,000 |
| R I COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| RI GOOD NEIGHBOR ENERGY FUND | $10,000 |
| SAVE THE BAY | $7,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +71% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND9× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +99%- AHAMOS HOUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +187%
SAVE THE BAY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +26%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
- SSSECOND STORY THEATERone grant, 2017 · $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 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 rhode island bankers association will serve as the sole rhode island based organization serving the banking industry and will advocate for its member institutions and participate alongside other new england banking industry…
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…
Preservation of affordable housing in the state of rhode island
The mission of rhode island health care association is to enhance its members' ability to provide sustainable quality health care and quality of life to the residents of rhode island's skilled nursing facilities.as a state affiliate of the…
The rhode island foundation mobilizes generosity and motivates change that makes a difference
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…
As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, RIH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.
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.
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…
To promote the art and science of medicine for the betterment of public health and to advocate quality patient care and promote the exchange of information
The rhode island public health association (ripha) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, tax-exempt, professional organization that works toward the advancement of public health. ripha is the rhode island affiliate of the american public health…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crossroads Rhode Island and the most unlike its peers is The Flower District. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 31 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 CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLOWER DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
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: United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Feinstein Foundation Inc · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Meehan 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.
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc — 12% 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.