· Public charity
Providence College
See schedule oPROVIDENCE COLLEGE is a catholic, dominican, liberal arts institution of higher education and a community committed to academic excellence.
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 8 grants below total $97,400 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $102,389,369 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $102,291,969 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 · $12k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOSTER FORWARD | $20,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND KIDS COUNT INC | $20,000 |
| ST ANNE'S SHRINE PRESERVATION SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ONWARD WE LEARN | $10,000 |
| A WISH COME TRUE | $6,400 |
| GARDEN OF DREAMS FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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 +117% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 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, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
- AWA WISH COME TRUE INC5× · 2019–2024 · $46k · revenue +149%
SPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC3× · 2019–2023 · $28k · revenue +10%- SHSMITH HILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +13%
Funded once
GLORIA GEMMA BREAST CANCER RESOURCE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +3%
Community Libraries of Providenceone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +6%
OPERATION STAND DOWN RHODE ISLANDone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +16%
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.
Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council's mission is to promote changes wthin communities in Rhode Island that encourages, inspires and makes possible for individuals with disabilities to create, pursue and achieve lives that are…
The mission of pvd prep is to prepare a diverse group of providence middle school students for college preparatory high schools.
The parent support network of ri is a group of parents, family members, transition age youth, and adults with behavioral health lived experience who are committed to supporting and assisting peers and working with statewide and national…
Provide an environment that encourages the exploration and development of artistic talents of youth in the multi-cultural neighborhoods of Providence, Rhode Island.
The ywca rhode island provides cultural, educational and recreational programs specifically for women, girls and young children.
Refocus is a human service agency that serves adults with differing physical and developmental needs. we are an organization of dedicated people offering opportunities for growth in a loving, trusting, and challenging environment. we value…
Preservation of affordable housing in the state of rhode island
Ser's mission is to provide literacy and job training services for economically disadvantaged rhode islanders so that they may improve their quality of life.
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…
To assist rhode islanders with differing abilities in their efforts to achieve full inclusion in society and to exercise their civil and human rights through the provision of legal advocacy.
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…
At Girls on the Run Rhode Island we inspire girls to recognize their inner strength and celebrate what makes them one of a kind. Trained coaches lead small teams through our research-based cirricula which includes dynamic discussions,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inspiring Minds and the most unlike its peers is St Anne's Shrine Preservation Society 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 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 29 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 A WISH COME TRUE INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTER FORWARD ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SMITH HILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG VOICES ↗
- Who funds GLORIA GEMMA BREAST CANCER RESOURCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND KIDS COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRING MINDS ↗
- Who funds THE CAPITAL GOOD FUND ↗
- Who funds YOUTH PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANNE'S SHRINE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Community Libraries of Providence ↗
- Who funds OPERATION STAND DOWN RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds WEST END COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ONWARD WE LEARN ↗
- Who funds MAN UP INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MANTON AVENUE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Chicago Blackhawks Foundation ↗
- Who funds KATE FOUNDATION FOR RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds FIRSTWORKS ↗
- Who funds GARDEN OF DREAMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER HOUSE 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: United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · The Beacon 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 Providence College 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.
- Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc — 45% 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.