· Private foundation
Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of RALPH R PAPITTO & BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY 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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k105 grants · $557k
- $10k–50k97 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k45 grants · $4.0M
- $250k+23 grants · $18M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUSTICE ASSISTANCE | $2,236,242 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $1,751,000 |
| DEVACCELERATOR INC | $1,550,000 |
| BUILDING FUTURES RHODE ISLAND | $1,500,000 |
| RI HOSPITAL FOUNDATION DEVELOPMENT | $1,000,000 |
| HASBRO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,000,000 |
| THE ELISHA PROJECT | $1,000,000 |
| THE FINANCIAL LITERACY INITIATIVE | $944,078 |
| RI PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC S | $935,000 |
| LEADERSHIP RHODE ISLAND | $702,500 |
| OFFICE OF THE POSTSECONDARY COMMISS | $534,978 |
| RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $525,000 |
| HOPE & MAIN | $513,062 |
| CENTRAL FALLS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| LIFESPAN | $500,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $7.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
178 repeat relationships — 149 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 116 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.1M 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
- JAJUSTICE ASSISTANCE CORP4× · 2021–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +524% · 93% of their budget
- LCLifespan Corporation4× · 2021–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +25%
Rhode Island Hospital Foundation3× · 2022–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +7%
Funded once
- TFTEACH FOR AMERICAone grant, 2021 · $750k
- OOOFFICE OF THE POSTSECONDARY COMMISSIONERone grant, 2023 · $512k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $203k
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.
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…
Trinity academy for the performing arts utilizes an interdisciplinary arts-integrated program to prepare our artist-scholars for collegiate and professional success.
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…
The mission of pvd prep is to prepare a diverse group of providence middle school students for college preparatory high schools.
Advancement of fiscally responsible government, competitive tax policies, and economic opportunities for all in rhode island by providing objective and nonpartisan research and analysis.
To ensure that every rhode island child can go to a great public school.
Through civic engagement, policy advancement and artivism, The Womxn Project takes action to secure reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ rights and government transparency in Rhode Island.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
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…
Provide an environment that encourages the exploration and development of artistic talents of youth in the multi-cultural neighborhoods of Providence, Rhode Island.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Economic Progress Institute and the most unlike its peers is Trade Pop-Up. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 18% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
220 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. 220 of the 432 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JUSTICE ASSISTANCE CORP ↗
- Who funds Lifespan Corporation ↗
- Who funds ELISHA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP RHODE ISLAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOPE & MAIN ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL FALLS CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND BLACK HERITAGE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Mount Hope Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Higher Ground International ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFIRE PROVIDENCE ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds GREATER PROVIDENCE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PROMISE ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ RHODE ISLAND ↗
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 Rhode Island Community Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Champlin Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Beacon Foundation · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island
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 Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Seiu Education and Support Fund — 6% of income from government
- Coaching for Change Inc — 5% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 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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