· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $171k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAVIS FARM | $120,233 |
| CREATURE CONSERVE | $51,000 |
| UMASS DARTMOUTH | $30,000 |
| RI COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| TOMORROW FUND | $10,000 |
| SOPHIA ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN SWANSEA | $5,000 |
| CROSSROADS RI | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS | $2,500 |
| REHOBOTH STATION THREE FIREFIGHTERS | $2,500 |
| ALLENDALE ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| THE AVENUE CONCEPT | $1,500 |
| REHOBOTH ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY INC | $1,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
SOPHIA ACADEMY7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +14%- CCCREATURE CONSERVE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $64k · revenue +36% · 55% of their budget
- RAREHOBOTH ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY6× · 2019–2025 · $57k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- BUBROWN UNIVERSITY HEALTH CANCER INSTone grant, 2024 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $3k
- TFTHE FRIENDS OF LINDEN PLACEone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
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.
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 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…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
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…
To be a proactive advocate for the hospitals in rhode island that is capable of working for and with the hospitals to positively influence public opinion, legislative outcomes and regulatory policy. the purpose of such advocacy is to…
The mission of the greene school is to organize, operate and promote a not-for-profit educational institution in western rhode island that shall emcompass a charter and/or independent school and that shall be at all times operated in…
To serve the community as a valued resource for education, conservation and recreation.
The rhode island bankers association will serve as the sole rhode island based organization serving the banking industry and will advocate for its member institutions and participate alongside other new england banking industry…
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
Rimta's mission is to champion the rhode island marine industry through advocacy, education, environmental stewardship, innovation and promotion.
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
The french american school of rhode islands (fasri) multilingual experience cultivates globally-minded, confident, creative learners.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Creature Conserve Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 40 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 SOPHIA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CREATURE CONSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds REHOBOTH ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Rehoboth Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE TOMORROW FUND ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds REHOBOTH AMBULANCE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLENDALE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND ↗
- Who funds HATTIE IDE CHAFFEE NURSING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF RHODE ISLAND AUTHORS ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE AVENUE CONCEPT INC ↗
- Who funds FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE GENESIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON FARM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOOKS ARE WINGS ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF LINDEN PLACE ↗
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 · 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
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 Robert D Wray Charitable Trust 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.
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% 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.