Rhode Island · Private foundation
Robert D Wray Charitable Trust
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.
- $269k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $120,233
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 29
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Robert D Wray Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $269k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $191k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $203k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $237k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $529k | 61% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $262k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $305k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sophia Academy | $70,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Creature Conserve Inc | $63,500 | 3 | 55% |
| Rehoboth Antiquarian Society | $56,500 | 6 | 5% |
| Rehoboth Food Pantry Inc | $48,000 | 7 | 18% |
| St Andrew's School | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Tomorrow Fund | $30,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Trustees of Reservations | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Rehoboth Ambulance Committee Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Allendale Association | $25,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Girl Scouts of Southeastern New England | $15,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sophia Academy | $70,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Creature Conserve Inc | $63,500 | 3 | 55% |
| Rehoboth Antiquarian Society | $56,500 | 6 | 5% |
| Rehoboth Food Pantry Inc | $48,000 | 7 | 18% |
| St Andrew's School | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Tomorrow Fund | $30,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Trustees of Reservations | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Rehoboth Ambulance Committee Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Allendale Association | $25,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Girl Scouts of Southeastern New England | $15,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Hattie Ide Chaffee Nursing Home Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Association of Rhode Island Authors | $13,000 | 7 | 14% |
| Crossroads Rhode Island | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Save the Bay Inc | $9,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc | $8,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Genesis Center | $8,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Barrington Farm School | $8,500 | 5 | 1% |
| The Avenue Concept Inc | $8,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Books Are Wings | $7,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Girls on the Run Rhode Island | $4,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Friends of Linden Place | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robert D Wray Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 · Amica Companies Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Foundation
How this is measured
About Robert D Wray Charitable Trust
- How much does Robert D Wray Charitable Trust give?
- Robert D Wray Charitable Trust reported 25 grants totaling $269,233 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 29 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Robert D Wray Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (58%), Education (9%), Health (5%).
- Who are Robert D Wray Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Sophia Academy ($70k), Creature Conserve Inc ($64k), Rehoboth Antiquarian Society ($57k).
- Does Robert D Wray Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert D Wray Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Robert D Wray Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, Amica Companies Foundation, The Champlin Foundation.
- Where is Robert D Wray Charitable Trust based?
- Robert D Wray Charitable Trust is based in RI.
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