· Public charity
Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Foundation
The RHODE ISLAND TURNPIKE AND BRIDGE FOUNDATION's mission is to support local communities and nonprofit organizations that have a positive impact on the lives of rhode islanders.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $77,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $136,700 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $59,700 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF RI | $10,000 |
| MEETING STREET SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MUSEUM OF NEWPORT IRISH HISTORY | $10,000 |
| SAMARITIANS OF RHODE ISLAND | $8,000 |
| SAVE THE BAY | $8,000 |
| LOOKING UPWARDS | $8,000 |
| C THOMAS CLAGETT REGATTA | $6,500 |
| WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF | $6,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
SAVE THE BAY INC6× · 2018–2025 · $58k · revenue +16%
MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED6× · 2018–2025 · $58k · revenue +193%
SPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC6× · 2018–2025 · $57k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- RIROTARY INTERNATIONALone grant, 2018 · $10k
SOJOURNER HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +98%
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.
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.
Advocate for abused and neglected children
Rimta's mission is to champion the rhode island marine industry through advocacy, education, environmental stewardship, innovation and promotion.
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To respect all older adults by hearing their voice, healing their hearts, building community, and delivering exceptional and equitable healthcare.
To celabrate the day of portugal in the state of rhode island
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Bike newport's mission is to ensure that bicycling is a viable, safe, and comfortable primary choice for transportation and recreation.
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…
Ri chiefs of police gather to share information on new or proposed state laws and maintaining best methods for state's citizens' protection
The purpose of the ricadv is to eliminate domestic violence in rhode island our mission is to support and enhance the work of our member agencies and to provide leadership on the issue of domestic violence.
To develop and maintain a coordinated network of collaborating partners that measurably strengthens families and enhances the quality of life in the city of newport, middletown, and more broadly newport county, ri.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sojourner House Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Samaritans Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 13 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 SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Meeting Street ↗
- Who funds The Samaritans Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds CLAGETT SAILING ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEWPORT IRISH HISTORY INC ↗
- Who funds LOOKING UPWARDS INC ↗
- Who funds SAIL NEWPORT ↗
- 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: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Beacon Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Champlin Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Billy Andrade-Brad Faxon Charities for Children Inc · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Eastern Bank 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 Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge 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.
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.