· Public charity
Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation
To provide needed food, shelter, clothing, medicine and educational scholarships.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $1,310,354 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,036,255 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,725,901 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $185k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDF | $515,000 |
| BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER (BMC) | $506,854 |
| BRADLEY HOSPITAL | $75,000 |
| TEMPLE SCHAARAI ZEDEK | $60,000 |
| FAY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| WATER FOR CAMBODIA | $20,000 |
| RI FREE CLINIC | $15,000 |
| MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| FOSTER FORWARD | $10,000 |
| GREGG'S GIVING TREE | $6,000 |
| MORGAN MEMORIAL GOODWILL INDUSTRIES | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $232k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $2.0M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: FINANCIAL AID · FOOD AND CLOTHING
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION7× · 2017–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +88%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES7× · 2017–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +53%- FOFRIENDS OF ELNET4× · 2018–2022 · $570k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- JNJEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INCone grant, 2022 · $250k
- PUProject Undercover Incgraduated8× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +30%
- CTCHILDREN'S TRUST INCone grant, 2017 · $58k · revenue -7%
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.
Better lives rhode island is a non-profit agency whose mission is to offer stability, justice, and hope to those in need through advocacy and direct service.
The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…
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 family pantry's mission is to provide food and clothing to those in need without regard to age, race, color, national origin, religion, residence, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, handicap, veteran, or any other status.
Promoting a more equitable, economically vibrant, and environmentally sustainable food system in rhode island.
Food link is working to create a more equitable food system throughout greater boston by rescuing and distributing high-quality, customized food to under-resourced communities and by advocating for systems change.
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…
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 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.
Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…
The ocean state animal coalition (osac) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the status and well-being of animals in rhode island.
Hac's mission is to promote and implement the right of all people on cape cod and the islands to occupy safe and affordable housing. to achieve this goal, hac has concentrated its major programs around rental subsidies, shelter services,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adoption Rhode Island and the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
158 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.
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 BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Trinity Repertory Company ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC ↗
- Who funds Bradley Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WATER FOR CAMBODIA A MIDDLETOWN CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE FAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GREATER PROVIDENCE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Project Undercover Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GLORIA GEMMA BREAST CANCER RESOURCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEHEALTH MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTER FORWARD ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BAILEYS TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds GREGG'S GIVING TREE INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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 · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Champlin Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · The Beacon Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Pisa Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated
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 Ocean State Job Lot 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc — 17% of income from government
- Children's Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- New England Wildlife Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Franciscan Hospital for Children — 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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