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Ponagansett Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k26 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $91k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $223k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LA SALLE ACADEMY | $120,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $102,500 |
| NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION | $18,725 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $18,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $18,500 |
| SAINT JOHN'S SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| SJE OLMC CHURCH | $8,500 |
| OUR LADY OF BETHESDA | $5,000 |
| ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| OPERATION CANASTA INC | $3,000 |
| ST THERESE OF LISIEUX CHURCH | $2,510 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS NORTH JERSEY | $2,500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $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 (FY20–23, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2023, 44 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k 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
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN4× · 2019–2022 · $41k · revenue +126%- GEGREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC4× · 2019–2022 · $35k · revenue +24%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC4× · 2020–2023 · $34k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTDone grant, 2019 · $85k · revenue +9%
- GSGood Samaritan Medical Centerone grant, 2020 · $10k
- CBCHRISTIAN BROTHERS CENTER ENDOWMENT FUNDone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Amogerone Volunteer Fire Co #1 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 53 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 98 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.
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 STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Bethesda Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NATHANIEL WITHERELL INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Amogerone Volunteer Fire Co #1 Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGE C MARSHALL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE GREENWICH LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION CANASTA INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds PASCACK VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
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 Kestrel Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Block Grausman Fund · Shaftel Family Foundation Inc · Murray & Susan Haber Charitable Foundation · Coleman Family Charitable Foundation · The Wenden Foundation · The Big Wood Foundation · The Jaffe Family Foundation · The Apple Lane Foundation Inc 14101830 · Fjc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
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 Ponagansett Foundation Inc 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.
- Steep Rock Association Inc — 19% of income from government
- The National Federation of the Blind — 2% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Susan B Anthony Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals 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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