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Pk Johnstone & He Kimball 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.

$67k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of PK JOHNSTONE & HE KIMBALL 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.

02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OLD SLATER MILL ASSOCIATION$10,000
OLIVER HAZARD PERRY RHODE ISLAND$10,000
NEWPORT CONTEMPORARY BALLET$7,000
COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL$6,000
WILDLIFE CLINIC OF RHODE ISLAND$5,000
SAVE THE BAY$5,000
CAMP RUGGLES$4,000
RISE$4,000
PETPALS$3,000
134 COLLABORATIVE$3,000
LITTLE RHODY RESCUE AND QUARANTINE$2,400
EAST BAY FOOD BANK$2,000
READ 2 SUCCEED$2,000
COMMUNITY STRING PROJECT$2,000
COGGESHALL FARM$2,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%CAMP JORI: $3k → 7%CAMP JORI: $3k → 7%CAMP JORI: $3k → 7%CAMP JORI: $3k → 7%CAMP JORI: $3k → 7%CAMP JORI: $3k → 7%134 COLLABORATIVE: $3k → 14%134 COLLABORATIVE: $3k → 14%134 COLLABORATIVE: $3k → 14%134 COLLABORATIVE: $2k → 14%134 COLLABORATIVE: $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.

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$376k · 26 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
15

Total granted

$376k
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+19%

Still filing today

54%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsOther

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

  • RI
    Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education
    6× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +10%
  • CAMP RUGGLES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +29%
  • OH
    OLIVER HAZARD PERRY RHODE ISLAND INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +209%

Funded once

  • CC
    CENTRAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • AS
    AUDUBON SOCIETY OF RHODE ISLAND
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +12%
  • TO
    TOCKWOTTON ON THE WATERFRONT
    one grant, 2017 · $5k

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.

1
Preserve Rhode Island

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Ocean State Research Institute Inc

The purpose of osri is to advance the research mission of the department of veterans affairs through the support of research and educational related activities at the providence va medical center. collaborative research and educational…

Health
3
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
4
Rhode Island Marine Trade Association

Rimta's mission is to champion the rhode island marine industry through advocacy, education, environmental stewardship, innovation and promotion.

5
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.

6
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
7
Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts

Trinity academy for the performing arts utilizes an interdisciplinary arts-integrated program to prepare our artist-scholars for collegiate and professional success.

Education
8
Srba Historic Building and Environmental Preservation Foundation

The preservation & maintenance of historic buildings and conservation of environmentally sensitive land surrounding historic buildings.

Arts & Culture
9
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…

10
East Providence Historical Society

The mission of the East Providence Historical Society is to enrich and educate the citizens of East Providence and surrounding communities about its history through excellent museum experiences and qualify educational programs that are…

Arts & Culture
11
Rhode Island Public Radio

To provide quality journalism and compelling storytelling that informs, educates, and inspirescommunity.

12
Rhode Island Natural History Survey

The Rhode Island Natural History Survey is an independent nonprofit organization founded in 1994 to gather and disseminate information on Rhode Islands animals and plants geology and ecosystems to facilitate communication among the diverse…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pet Pals Northeast. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyK-12 Education & Youth Deve…Land and Wildlife Conservat…Rhode Island Economic Devel…Downtown Providence Revital…Newport Historic Preservati…Dog Rescue and AdoptionPerforming Arts Organizatio…Recreational Sports ClubsRhode Island Healthcare Sys…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr18%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%5%10–20yr18%39%20–35yr14%31%35–55yr18%24%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
10%
448/4,269

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

25 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 47 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAMARITANS OF RHODE ISLAND — $24,000 · OtherSAMARITANS OF RHODE ISLANDIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWOMEN'S AND INFANTS HOSPITAL — $15,000 · OtherWOMEN'S AND INFANTS HOSPITALTHE UCAP SCHOOL — $13,000 · OtherTHE UCAP SCHOOLSEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE OF NEWPORT — $11,000 · OtherSLATER MILL MUSEUM — $10,000 · OtherGOODWILL OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherCENTRAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH — $10,000 · OtherPET PALS NORTHEAST — $10,500 · OtherDORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $12,000 · Other+18 more — $87,400 · Other+18 moreOLIVER HAZARD PERRY RHODE ISLAND INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureOLIVER HAZARD PERRY …THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PLAYHOUSE INC — $17,200 · Arts & CultureTHE CUMBERLAND COUNT…Trinity Repertory Company — $17,000 · Arts & CultureTrinity Repertory Co…OLD SLATER MILL ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureOLD SLATER MILL ASSO…NEWPORT CONTEMPORARY BALLET — $7,000 · Arts & CultureNEWPORT CONTEMPORARY…BATTLE OF RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION — $3,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $2,000 · Arts & CultureCAMP RUGGLES INC — $32,000 · Recreation & SportsSAIL NEWPORT — $2,500 · Recreation & SportsRhode Islanders Sponsoring Education — $32,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $16,000 · EducationREAD TO SUCCEED INC — $8,000 · EducationSCHOOL ONE — $4,000 · EducationJewish Childrens Home of RI Inc — $15,000 · Human Services134 Collaborative — $12,000 · Human ServicesBUTLER HOSPITAL — $15,700 · HealthWOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI — $2,500 · Health
Other$242,900Arts & Culture$86,200Recreation & Sports$34,500Philanthropy$32,000Education$28,000Human Services$27,000Health$18,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRhode Islanders Sponsoring Education — $32,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetCAMP RUGGLES INC — $32,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetOLIVER HAZARD PERRY RHODE ISLAND INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PLAYHOUSE INC — $17,200 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTrinity Repertory Company — $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBUTLER HOSPITAL — $15,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Childrens Home of RI Inc — $15,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budget134 Collaborative — $12,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetDORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE OF NEWPORT — $11,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPET PALS NORTHEAST — $10,500 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetOLD SLATER MILL ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetREAD TO SUCCEED INC — $8,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNARRAGANSETT COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUDUBON SOCIETY OF RHODE ISLAND — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEWPORT CONTEMPORARY BALLET — $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAVE THE BAY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL ONE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBATTLE OF RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION — $3,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetWOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAIL NEWPORT — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE RHODY RESCUE AND QUARANTINE INC — $2,400 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY STRING PROJECT INC — $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education
  • Who funds CAMP RUGGLES INC
  • Who funds OLIVER HAZARD PERRY RHODE ISLAND INC
  • Who funds THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PLAYHOUSE INC
  • Who funds Trinity Repertory Company
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL
  • Who funds BUTLER HOSPITAL
  • Who funds Jewish Childrens Home of RI Inc
  • Who funds 134 Collaborative
  • Who funds DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC
  • Who funds SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE OF NEWPORT
  • Who funds PET PALS NORTHEAST
  • Who funds OLD SLATER MILL ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds READ TO SUCCEED INC
  • Who funds NARRAGANSETT COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
  • Who funds AUDUBON SOCIETY OF RHODE ISLAND
  • Who funds NEWPORT CONTEMPORARY BALLET
  • Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC
  • Who funds SCHOOL ONE
  • Who funds BATTLE OF RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION

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 Rhode Island Community FoundationRI40.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · Frederick C Tanner Memorial Fund · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Mary D Chafee Fund Co Mark Chafee · Billy Andrade-Brad Faxon Charities for Children Inc · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353

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 Pk Johnstone & He Kimball 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Pk Johnstone & He Kimball Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Pk Johnstone & He Kimball 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 47 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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