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Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation

To provide needed food, shelter, clothing, medicine and educational scholarships.

$7.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$515k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$4.7MInternational$4.5MFood & Nutrition$1.5MArts & Culture$536kScience & Tech$507kHuman Services$395kPhilanthropy$317kEducation$175kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $1,310,354, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,036,255 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,725,901 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $185k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$40,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FOSTER FORWARD$10,000
MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
GREGG'S GIVING TREE$6,000
MORGAN MEMORIAL GOODWILL INDUSTRIES$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NARRAGANSETT LIONS CLUB: $8k → 7%Sunrise Day Camp: $10k → 6%GREGG'S GIVING TREE: $6k → 7%PROJECT UNDRECOVER: $60k → 14%GREGGS GIVING TREE INC: $5k → 7%INST FOR STIDYPRACTICE OF NONVIOLENCE: $15k → 14%INST FOR STUDYPRACTICE NON VIOLENCE: $15k → 14%INST FOR STIDYPRACTICE OF NONVIOLENCE: $10k → 14%INST FOR STUDYPRACTICE OF NONVIOLENCE: $10k → 14%Inst for StudyPractice of NonViolence: $10k → 14%INST FOR STIDYPRACTICE OF NONVIOLENCE: $10k → 14%FOSTER FORWARD: $10k → 14%FOSTER FORWARD: $10k → 14%YMCA of Greater Providence RI: $53k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
RI
CA
DC
TX
FL

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.

Middle East and North Africa$2.0M · 100% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: FINANCIAL AID · FOOD AND CLOTHING

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 22 repeat orgs$879k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
30

Total granted

$12M
$819k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+38%

Still filing today

95%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureEducationAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 CORPORATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +115%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    7× · 2017–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +53%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ELNET
    4× · 2018–2022 · $570k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • JN
    JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • PU
    Project Undercover Incgraduated
    8× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +30%
  • CT
    CHILDREN'S TRUST INC
    one grant, 2017 · $58k · revenue -7%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Better Lives Rhode Island

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.

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2
Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc

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,…

Food & Nutrition
3
The Rhode Island Public Health Foundation

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…

Health
4
The Family Pantry of Cape Cod Corp

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.

Food & Nutrition
5
Rhode Island Food Policy Council

Promoting a more equitable, economically vibrant, and environmentally sustainable food system in rhode island.

Food & Nutrition
6
Food Link Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
7
Hospital Association of Rhode Island

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…

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8
Rhode Island Bankers Association Inc

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…

Public Benefit
9
Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence

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.

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10
Community Cooks Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
11
Ocean State Animal Coalition

The ocean state animal coalition (osac) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the status and well-being of animals in rhode island.

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12
Housing Assistance Corporation

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,…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adoption Rhode Island; 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.
04the grantee network

158 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
43
Early backer (in before they grew)
153/158
Grantees still filing
109/158
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $5,163,212 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATIONPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $305,000 · Health+10 more: $711,045 · Health+10 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $3,370,670 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESFRIENDS OF ELNET: $570,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ELNETAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $507,069 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $460,965 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC: $250,000 · InternationalTrinity Repertory Company: $478,861 · Arts & CulturePROVIDENCE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $49,400 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $7,481 · Arts & CultureAMOS HOUSE: $91,901 · OtherCONGREGATION SCHAARAI: $60,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $52,225 · OtherLINCOLN SCHOOL: $40,000 · OtherNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $31,439 · OtherSISTERS OF MERCY OF THE AMERICAS NORTHEAST COMMUNITY: $30,000 · OtherHOPEHEALTH MASSACHUSETTS INC: $20,392 · OtherCASTROS KIDS: $20,000 · OtherMAKE A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $49,500 · OtherTHE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $46,693 · OtherFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $25,000 · Other+12 more: $88,240 · OtherNONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $70,000 · Human ServicesGREATER PROVIDENCE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $62,900 · Human ServicesProject Undercover Inc: $60,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER FORWARD: $20,000 · Human ServicesGREGG'S GIVING TREE INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,496 · Human Services+1 more: $7,500 · Human ServicesWATER FOR CAMBODIA A MIDDLETOWN CHARITABLE TRUST: $90,000 · EducationTHE FAY SCHOOL INC: $75,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $50,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $20,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S TRUST INC: $57,504 · Crime & Legal
Health$6,179,257International$5,158,704Arts & Culture$535,742Other$575,390Human Services$241,896Education$235,000Crime & Legal$57,504

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $5,163,212 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $3,370,670 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET: $570,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $507,069 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTrinity Repertory Company: $478,861 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $460,965 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $305,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBradley Hospital Foundation: $185,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC INC: $155,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $145,956 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmma Pendleton Bradley Hospital: $130,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMOS HOUSE: $91,901 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWATER FOR CAMBODIA A MIDDLETOWN CHARITABLE TRUST: $90,000 over 7y, 59% of budgetTHE FAY SCHOOL INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $70,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetGREATER PROVIDENCE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $62,900 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetProject Undercover Inc: $60,000 over 8y, 24% of budgetCHILDREN'S TRUST INC: $57,504 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $52,225 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $49,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPROVIDENCE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $49,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $46,693 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN SCHOOL: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGLORIA GEMMA BREAST CANCER RESOURCE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEHEALTH MASSACHUSETTS INC: $20,392 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTER FORWARD: $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBAILEYS TEAM INC: $16,089 over 1y, 18% of budgetGREGG'S GIVING TREE INC: $11,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,496 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeed RI: $10,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetFranciscan Hospital for Children: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOMELESS ANIMALS: $7,993 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNARRAGANSETT COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $7,490 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRHODE ISLAND STATE POLICE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $7,481 over 1y, 28% of budgetDAKIN PIONEER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $5,540 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Northern Rhode Island: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMorgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Rhode Island Comm…United Way of Rhode I…The Champlin Foundati…Amica Companies Found…Bristol County Saving…Ralph R Papitto & Bar…The Beacon FoundationCitizens Charitable F…Washington Trust Co C…Pisa FoundationEastern Bank Foundati…June Rockwell Levy Fo…
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI61.3× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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