· Private foundation
Ralph & Clara Shuster 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND | $25,000 |
| JOHNSON WALES UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM | $15,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL | $10,000 |
| CHAIN REACTION FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL | $8,200 |
| TEMPLE EMANUEL | $4,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL BEIT DIN | $3,600 |
| HADAR INSTITUTE | $1,800 |
| ST MARY'S ORTHODOX CHURCH | $1,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,800 |
| BRADLEY HOSPITAL | $1,800 |
| YESHIVA KEHILATH YAKOV | $1,800 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND | $1,000 |
| BIKE4CHAI | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.
41 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 4 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JAJEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND8× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +15%
ELIZABETH BUFFUM CHACE CENTER2× · 2018–2019 · $9k · revenue +116%
PROVIDENCE PROMISE4× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue +215%
Funded once
- KRKEHILAT ROMEMUone grant, 2021 · $18k
- SOSHUL ON THE BEACHone grant, 2022 · $10k
- JEJEWISH EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $8k
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 157 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds HAZON INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH BUFFUM CHACE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PROMISE ↗
- Who funds Jewish Childrens Home of RI Inc ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN SEPHARDIC CONGREGATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds NECTAR COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS INC ↗
- Who funds EDMONDS FOOD BANK ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Champlin Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Cvs Health Charity Classic Inc · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Jewish Federation Foundation of Greater Rhode Island · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · Harry M Miriam C Will C Horton F · Kane-Barrengos Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ralph & Clara Shuster Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ralph & Clara Shuster Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Kennedy-Donovan Center Inc: 62% of income from government
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
- Nectar Community Investments Inc: 12% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc: 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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