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Ress Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$114k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Philanthropy$383kEducation$59kAnimals$43kEnvironment$40kReligion$33kArts & Culture$22kHuman Services$17kHealth$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $34k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHWAB CHARITABLE DAFS$79,860
UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS AMERICAN FOUNDATION$6,750
MASSACHUSETTS RIVERS ALLIANCE INC$5,000
SEA TURTLE CONSERVANCY$5,000
CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION$3,500
NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM$3,500
TEMPLE EMANU-EL$1,800
Individual grant recipient$1,800
HAYMARKET PEOPLE'S FUND$1,000
CHARLES RIVER CLEAN UP BOAT$1,000
CHEWONKI FOUNDATION$1,000
NATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER$1,000
BUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION$1,000
EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY$500
NONPROFIT CENTER OF BERKSHIRES$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MV COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100 → 8%MV COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100 → 8%MV COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100 → 8%NONPROFIT CENER OF THE BIRKSHIRES: $525 → 12%NONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES: $500 → 12%NONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $100 → 14%WOMEN'S FUND OF RHODE ISLAND: $500 → 14%JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES: $5k → 14%JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES: $5k → 14%JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES: $5k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $150 → 14%CROSSROADS RI: $150 → 14%CROSSROADS RI: $100 → 14%JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND: $25k → 14%JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RI: $25k → 14%JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND: $25k → 14%CAMP JORI: $100 → 14%CAMP JORI: $100 → 14%CAMP JORI: $100 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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VT
NH
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
VA
AR
DC
AL
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$547k · 74 repeat orgs$167k to everyone else

74 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 60 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
49

Total granted

$547k
$166k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+58%

Still filing today

68%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthInternationalOther

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

  • JA
    JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND
    3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +23%
  • Sea Turtle Conservancy
    6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +11%
  • NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • S
    SEE
    one grant, 2017 · $98k
  • SC
    SCWAB CHARITABLE
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $8k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Preserve Rhode Island

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
4
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
5
Roger Williams University

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…

Education
6
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
9
The Alumni Association of the University of Rhode Island

The university of rhode island alumni association informs and engages current and future alumni as committed partners of the university, its missions and traditions.

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10
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
11
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
12
The Rhode Island Community Foundation

The rhode island foundation mobilizes generosity and motivates change that makes a difference

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Aquarium Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Charles River Clean up Boat. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Community College Foundatio…Women & Girls Leadership De…Public Library OperationsYouth Development ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringHealth Access Advocacy and …Independent K-12 SchoolsJewish Community Organizati…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%34%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%28%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/71
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,494

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.

04the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 129 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/70
Grantees still filing
55/70
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCHWAB CHARITABLE DAFS — $246,582 · OtherSCHWAB CHARITABLE DAFSSEE — $98,188 · OtherSEETEMPLE EMANU-EL — $25,700 · OtherSCWAB CHARITABLE — $25,000 · Other+77 more — $109,860 · Other+77 moreJEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND — $75,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH ALLIAN…JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES — $15,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COLLAB…+6 more — $2,625 · Human ServicesRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN — $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC — $8,350 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $3,508 · EducationPROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY — $3,000 · EducationBROOKLINE CHINESE SCHOOL — $2,664 · EducationKAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE — $2,500 · EducationWellesley College — $2,100 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT — $2,000 · EducationSOPHIA ACADEMY — $1,500 · Education+7 more — $4,150 · EducationDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $30,666 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $4,300 · PhilanthropyBUTLER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,500 · Philanthropy+1 more — $100 · PhilanthropyCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 · EnvironmentMassachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc — $9,000 · EnvironmentChewonki Foundation Inc — $5,750 · EnvironmentSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION — $2,750 · EnvironmentNEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC — $2,000 · EnvironmentCharles River Clean up Boat — $2,000 · EnvironmentSPEAK FOR THE TREES INC — $1,649 · Environment+4 more — $2,150 · EnvironmentSea Turtle Conservancy — $21,000 · InternationalDORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $750 · International+1 more — $500 · InternationalNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC — $4,250 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE LOBKOWICZ COLLECTIONS INC — $1,750 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $525 · Arts & Culture
Other$505,330Human Services$92,625Education$39,772Philanthropy$36,566Environment$34,299International$22,250Arts & Culture$21,525

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND — $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $30,666 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSea Turtle Conservancy — $21,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION — $16,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc — $9,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC — $8,350 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChewonki Foundation Inc — $5,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN SCHOOL — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $4,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC — $4,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC — $3,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $3,508 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Miriam Hospital Foundation — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION — $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLINE CHINESE SCHOOL — $2,664 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetKAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWellesley College — $2,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCharles River Clean up Boat — $2,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LOBKOWICZ COLLECTIONS INC — $1,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPEAK FOR THE TREES INC — $1,649 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH IN ACTION INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFreedom to Read Foundation — $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBUTLER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE LEARNING PROJECT INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOPHIA ACADEMY — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAGAZINE BEACH PARTNERS INC — $1,095 over 5y, 10% of budgetNONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES INC — $1,025 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRe-evaluation Foundation — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF PROVIDENCE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIDDEN WINGS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAYMARKET PEOPLE'S FUND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Libraries of Providence — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEEP MASSACHUSETTS BEAUTIFUL INC — $900 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetINSPIRING MINDS — $750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIRIAM HOSPITAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION — $750 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaptain Forbes House Museum — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWomen's Fund of Rhode Island — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Champlin Foundati…Citizens Charitable F…The Rhode Island Comm…June Rockwell Levy Fo…Barr FoundationUnited Way of Rhode I…Gertrude N & Seebert …Ralph R Papitto & Bar…Amica Companies Found…The Pearle W & Martin…Boston Foundation IncThe Weisberg Family F…
The Champlin FoundationPA33.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Champlin Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Barr Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Gertrude N & Seebert J Goldowsky Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · The Pearle W & Martin M Silverstein Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Weisberg Family 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 Ress 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Captain Forbes House Museum — 100% of income from government
  • Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires Inc — 18% of income from government
  • National Marine Life Center Inc — 16% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
  • Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • Speak for the Trees Inc — 2% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Sea Turtle Conservancy — 1% of income from government
  • Greenroots Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc — 1% of income from government
  • New England Wildlife Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 129 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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