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Pawtucket Red Sox James J Skeffington Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$750
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$750
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of PAWTUCKET RED SOX JAMES J SKEFFINGTON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$750
Median grant
1
States reached
$84k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PAWTUCKET FOUNDATION$750
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TIDES FAMILY SERVICES INC: $3k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER PROVIDENCE: $400 → 7%TIDES FAMILY SERVICES INC: $650 → 14%HOCKOMOCK AREA YMCA: $2k → 11%PROGRESSO LATINO: $2k → 14%PROGRESSO LATINO: $1k → 14%WORCESTER COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $100 → 11%PROGRESSO LATINO: $1k → 14%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $250 → 11%WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 11%FOSTER FORWARD: $500 → 14%YMCA OF PAWTUCKET: $1k → 14%YMCA OF PAWTUCKET: $800 → 14%YMCA OF PAWTUCKET: $160 → 14%ADOPT A FAMILY: $300 → 14%CHILDREN'S FRIEND: $1k → 14%ELISHA PROJECT: $500 → 14%ELISHA PROJECT: $250 → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND: $2k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND: $2k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
MA
IN
CT
RI
CA
KY
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$167k · 39 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 38 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
83

Total granted

$167k
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+33%

Still filing today

56%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEducationOther

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

  • TR
    THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $25k · revenue +34%
  • TT
    THE TOMORROW FUND
    5× · 2017–2021 · $17k · revenue +54%
  • BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PAWTUCKET
    5× · 2017–2021 · $15k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • UM
    UMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
  • JF
    JIMMY FUND TELETHON
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • CD
    CANAL DISTRICT ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -93%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of New England Inc

Ronald mcdonald house charities of new england, inc. (rmhc ne) develops supports and provides programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children and their families through ronald mcdonald houses (rmh), ronald mcdonald…

Human Services
2
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
3
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
4
Rhode Island Kids Count Inc

Rhode island kids count, inc. is a not-for-profit corporation. the organization is a children's policy and advocacy organization that provides information on child well-being, stimulates dialogue on children's issues, and promotes…

Youth Development
5
Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board Inc

Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.

Community Improvement
6
Roger Williams Medical Center Fka Roger Williams Hospital

Roger williams medical center's mission is to provide healthcare services in providence, rhode island and surrounding communities.

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7
Washington Park Citizens Association Inc

The washington park citizens association, inc. (the organization) is a nonprofit organization incorporated in the state of rhode island in 1969. the organization operates washington park community center, which provides childcare programs…

Human Services
8
Rhode Island Police Chiefs Association Inc

Ri chiefs of police gather to share information on new or proposed state laws and maintaining best methods for state's citizens' protection

Community Improvement
9
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, RIH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
10
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
11
Rhode Island Center for the Book

To promote personal and community enrichment by providing opportunities that enable the reading, writing, making and sharing of books.

Arts & Culture
12
The Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce

Promote businesses through the organization of various meetings, functions, and programs.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rhode Island Community Food Bank Association and the most unlike its peers is Columbian American Cultural Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr13%5%5–10yr18%18%10–20yr18%18%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr17%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%6%10–20yr18%42%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr17%29%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/69
the rest of the field
12%
1,165/10,077

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.

04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 122 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/67
Grantees still filing
46/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE TOMORROW FUND — $16,895 · OtherTHE TOMORROW FUNDOPERATION STAND DOWN RI — $12,000 · OtherOPERATION STAND DOWN RIHASBRO CHILDRENS HOSPITAL — $8,750 · OtherHASBRO CHILDRENS HOSPITALIndividual grant recipient — $7,050 · OtherUMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER — $6,250 · OtherJIMMY FUND TELETHON (RSF) — $5,000 · OtherNARRAGANSETT COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $5,000 · Other+76 more — $81,867 · Other+76 moreTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE RED SOX F…EMERALD CLUB INC — $2,500 · PhilanthropyEMERALD CLUB …THE 200 FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $250 · PhilanthropyFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $6,492 · Human ServicesFAMILY SER…PROGRESO LATINO — $4,000 · Human ServicesPROGRESO L…TIDES FAMILY SERVICES INC — $3,150 · Human ServicesTIDES FAMI…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PAWTUCKET INC — $1,960 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'…HOCKOMOCK YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $1,750 · Human ServicesHOCKOMOCK …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,500 · Human ServicesAmerican N…CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE — $1,000 · Human Services+7 more — $2,800 · Human Services+7 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PAWTUCKET — $14,634 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC — $750 · Youth Development+1 more — $250 · Youth DevelopmentBLACKSTONE VALLEY TOURISM COUNCIL INC — $7,515 · Arts & CultureOLD SLATER MILL ASSOCIATION — $2,250 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC — $1,500 · Arts & CulturePRESERVATION WORCESTER INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBIAN AMERICAN CULTURAL SOCIETY — $750 · Arts & CulturePROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $600 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM — $600 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $50 · Arts & CulturePAWTUCKET FOUNDATION — $7,000 · Community ImprovementPAWTUCKET SOUP KITCHEN — $3,450 · Community ImprovementVETERANS INC — $500 · Community Improvement+1 more — $75 · Community ImprovementPHOENIX HOUSES OF NEW ENGLAND — $1,500 · HealthThe Miriam Hospital Foundation — $1,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $650 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $500 · HealthJOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION INC — $350 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $200 · Health
Other$142,812Philanthropy$28,750Human Services$22,652Youth Development$15,634Arts & Culture$14,265Community Improvement$11,025Health$4,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TOMORROW FUND — $16,895 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PAWTUCKET — $14,634 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBLACKSTONE VALLEY TOURISM COUNCIL INC — $7,515 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPAWTUCKET FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $6,492 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNARRAGANSETT COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROGRESO LATINO — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORP — $3,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPAWTUCKET SOUP KITCHEN — $3,450 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTIDES FAMILY SERVICES INC — $3,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMERALD CLUB INC — $2,500 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetOLD SLATER MILL ASSOCIATION — $2,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — $2,011 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEUROFIBROMATOSIS INC NORTHEAST — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PAWTUCKET INC — $1,960 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOCKOMOCK YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC — $1,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA WISH COME TRUE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPHOENIX HOUSES OF NEW ENGLAND — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST PROVIDENCE CENTRAL LITTLE LEAGUE — $1,167 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL 2390214 RIVE SIDE LITTLE LEAGUE — $1,167 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFeed RI — $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Miriam Hospital Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION TO ADVANCE CATHOLIC EDUCATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRESERVATION WORCESTER INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE 200 FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEMPOWERMENT FACTORY — $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S SHELTER OF BLACKSTONE VALLEY INC — $800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC — $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSupport the Soupman Corp — $700 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOOKS ARE WINGS — $528 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGO ONCOLOGY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDA VINCI CENTER FOR COMMUNITY PROGRESS — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVETERANS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTER FORWARD — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN RHODE ISLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Champlin Foundati…Bristol County Saving…The Rhode Island Comm…United Way of Rhode I…Amica Companies Found…The Beacon FoundationRalph R Papitto & Bar…Centreville Savings B…Citizens Charitable F…Washington Trust Co C…Alice I Sullivan Char…Rockland Trust Charit…
The Champlin FoundationPA49.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Champlin Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Alice I Sullivan Charitablefoundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Pawtucket Red Sox James J Skeffington 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
  • Legendary Legacies Inc — 58% of income from government
  • Preservation Worcester Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Worcester Community Action Council Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Friendly House Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Worcester Historical Museum — 5% of income from government
  • The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to Pawtucket Red Sox James J Skeffington Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pawtucket Red Sox James J Skeffington 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 122 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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