· Private foundation
Newportfed Charitable 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 $10k35 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY | $15,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY - NEWPORT CORPS | $12,000 |
| NEWPORT COUNTY YMCA | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL - ST JOSEPH'S | $10,000 |
| MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND | $10,000 |
| THE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC FOR HOPE | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL - WESTERLY | $10,000 |
| BOYS CLUBS GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWPORT C | $10,000 |
| VISITING NURSE HOME HOSPICE | $5,000 |
| WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS WARM CENTE | $5,000 |
| FRANK OLEAN CENTER | $5,000 |
| CHILD FAMILY SERVICES OF NEWPORT CT | $5,000 |
| SAVE THE BAY | $5,000 |
| RI PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA MUSIC SCH | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 11% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- NCNEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA3× · 2022–2025 · $52k · revenue +100%
THE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +35%- LHLUCY'S HEARTH3× · 2022–2024 · $43k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWPORT CTYone grant, 2021 · $15k
- JCJONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLYone grant, 2021 · $15k
- SASALVATION ARMY - NEWPORT CORPSone grant, 2021 · $12k
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.
Newport community school provides educational opportunities to complement classroom learning and support academic success, personal responsibility and economic self-sufficiency in a vibrant engaged commmunity.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
To enrich the cultural life of the island by fostering and supporting music education and performance opportunities for young people and adults.
To engage people of all ages in the joy of sailing, offering access to all nantucket's youth, and teaching every participant in our programs enduring life and leadership skills, with a deep respect for the marine environment.
Rimta's mission is to champion the rhode island marine industry through advocacy, education, environmental stewardship, innovation and promotion.
Aipc works to preserve and improve the environment, economy and quality of life on aquidneck island to ensure that the island remains a great place to live, work, play and thrive.
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…
The mission of the Newport Public Library: To bring people, ideas, and information for the good of every individual and the community it services. The library aims to be a leading resource for information and the center for lifelong…
Regional theater
Newport film inspires, educates, and entertains by presenting current and impactful documentaries that build community and propel change.
The northeastern regional association of coastal and ocean observing systems' (neracoos) mission is to produce, integrate and communicate high- quality information that helps ensure safety, economic and environmental resilience, and…
The newport public library seeks to strengthen the community by providing opportunities that support life long learning, inspiration, imagination, enjoyment and connect people to each other and to the rest of the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Colonial Theatre School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 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. 42 of the 82 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 NEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA ↗
- Who funds THE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC ↗
- Who funds LUCY'S HEARTH ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRANK OLEAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT SINGS ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run Rhode Island ↗
- Who funds THE NORMAN BIRD SANCTUARY TRUST ↗
- Who funds OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA ↗
- Who funds IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC ↗
- Who funds Newport Hospital ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT GULLS LTD ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN CLARKE RETIREMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND ARTS FOUNDATION AT NEWPORT ↗
- Who funds The Newport Tree Conservancy ↗
- Who funds NEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SAIL TO PREVAIL ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF RI INC ↗
- Who funds STAND UP FOR ANIMALS ↗
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 · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Gruben Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Ejmp Fund for Philanthropy · Bazarsky Family Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Citizens Charitable 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 Newportfed 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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