· Private foundation
Nicholas Caldarone Foundation
Its FY2026 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, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RI | $3,000 |
| HASBRO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,500 |
| TOCKWOTTON HOMEROGERS FUND | $1,500 |
| THE SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND BAR FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE GRODEN CENTER INC | $1,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND | $1,000 |
| MEETING STREET SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| BUTTON HOLE GOLF FOUNDATION | $500 |
| JOHN P BURKE MEMORIAL FUND | $500 |
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 (FY22–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
15 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2026, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 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
DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC6× · 2021–2026 · $17k · revenue +5%- HSHOOSAC SCHOOL3× · 2021–2023 · $9k · revenue +48%
THE GRODEN CENTER INC6× · 2021–2026 · $8k · revenue +32%
Funded once
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.
As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
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…
The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
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 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…
To encourage and receive private and public support to enhance and expand rhode island college's continued tradition of educational excellence. the foundation provides support for scholarships, faculty research grants, capital…
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…
Regis college, through education in the arts, sciences, and professions empowers women and men to challenge themselves academically, to serve and to lead. a catholic college, regis is a diverse and welcoming community guided by the values…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 15 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 DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HOOSAC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE GRODEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN P BURKE MEMORIAL FUND ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BUTTON HOLE ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
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 Champlin Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · The Beacon Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nicholas Caldarone Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nicholas Caldarone Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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