· Private foundation
Newportfed Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND | $10,000 |
| NEWPORT COUNTY YMCA | $10,000 |
| THE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC FOR HOPE | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL - WESTERLY | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL - ST JOSEPH'S | $10,000 |
| BOYS CLUBS GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWPORT C | $10,000 |
| VISITING NURSE HOME HOSPICE | $5,000 |
| RI PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA MUSIC SCH | $5,000 |
| SAVE THE BAY | $5,000 |
| NEWPORT SINGS | $5,000 |
| FRANK OLEAN CENTER | $5,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN RHODE ISLAND | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $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. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NCNEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA3× · 2022–2025 · $52k · revenue +52%
THE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +35%- LHLUCY'S HEARTH3× · 2022–2024 · $43k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- JCJONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLYone grant, 2021 · $15k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWPORT CTYone grant, 2021 · $15k
- MCMLK CENTERone grant, 2021 · $12k
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.
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.
How this is measured
42 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. 42 of the 81 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 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 NEWPORT SINGS ↗
- Who funds FRANK OLEAN CENTER INC ↗
- 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 THE FROSTY DREW MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds STAND UP FOR ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE OCEAN COMMUNITY UNITED THEATRE 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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Newportfed Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Newportfed Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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