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Providence Female Charitable Society

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$39k
Granted FY2026still arriving
11
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$77kHuman Services$48kCrime & Legal$7kHousing & Shelter$6kEducation$2kOther$0
02FY2026 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$567k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY$8,700
ELIZABETH BUFFUM CHACE CENTER$5,220
SAINT MARY CHURCH PAWTUCKET$5,000
LUCY'S HEARTH$4,300
SAINT MARY CHURCH NEWPORT$3,700
UNITED CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$3,200
SPRING GREEN MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH$3,200
WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER$2,400
CROSSROADS$1,500
AMOS HOUSE$1,500
SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL$350
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 (FY22–26, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY: $12k → 7%ST MARY'S HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 14%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY: $9k → 7%ST MARY'S HOME FOR CHILDREN: $800 → 14%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY: $7k → 7%ST MARY'S HOME FOR CHILDREN: $100 → 14%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY: $7k → 7%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $14k → 7%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 7%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 7%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 7%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$172k · 11 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2026, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
2

Total granted

$172k
$39k

Still filing today

55%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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

  • DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY INC
    4× · 2023–2026 · $35k · revenue +16%
  • WR
    WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES
    4× · 2022–2026 · $23k · revenue +7%
  • ELIZABETH BUFFUM CHACE CENTER
    5× · 2022–2026 · $12k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • V
    Various
    one grant, 2021 · $34k
  • ST
    ST TERESA'S CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Various: $34,220 · OtherVariousSAINT MARY CHURCH NEWPORT: $19,740 · OtherSAINT MARY CHURCH NEWPORTSAINT MARY CHURCH PAWTUCKET: $19,700 · OtherSAINT MARY CHURCH PAWTUCKETUNITED CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $19,500 · OtherUNITED CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHSPRING GREEN MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH: $16,100 · OtherSPRING GREEN MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCHCROSSROADS: $13,470 · OtherCROSSROADSELIZABETH BUFFUM CHACE CENTER: $12,190 · OtherELIZABETH BUFFUM CHACE CENTER+2 more: $6,200 · OtherDOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY INC: $34,870 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENT…WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES: $22,500 · Human ServicesWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPO…ST MARY'S HOME FOR CHILDREN: $2,100 · Human ServicesLUCY'S HEARTH: $10,350 · Housing & ShelterSOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,850 · Education
Other$141,120Human Services$59,470Housing & Shelter$10,350Education$1,850

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY INC: $34,870 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES: $22,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetELIZABETH BUFFUM CHACE CENTER: $12,190 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLUCY'S HEARTH: $10,350 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetST MARY'S HOME FOR CHILDREN: $2,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,850 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES ↗
  • Who funds ELIZABETH BUFFUM CHACE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LUCY'S HEARTH ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗

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…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover 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 · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Providence Female Charitable Society funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Providence Female Charitable Society. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 Providence Female Charitable Society?

    Find your warmest path to Providence Female Charitable Society 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 14 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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