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Robert M Grace Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$470k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232024.

Arts & Culture$1.0MPhilanthropy$675kEducation$350kHealth$67kEnvironment$65kSocial Science$36kCivil Rights$20kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $167k
  • $250k+2 grants · $820k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND$470,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION$350,000
BATH & TENNIS CLUB HISTORIC BUILDING PRESERVATION FOUNDATION$100,000
HOPE FUNDS FOR CANCER RESEARCH$67,000
AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST$30,000
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYHOOVER INSTITUTION$25,000
REDWOOD LIBRARY & ATHENAEUM$25,000
SRBA HISTORIC BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION FOUNDATION$15,000
NEWPORT COUNTRY CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION$10,000
CONEXION LATINA NEWPORT$10,000
YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION$10,000
REASON FOUNDATION$2,000
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 (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CONEXION LATINA NEWPORT: $10k → 7%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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 91% of Robert M Grace Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 4% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Robert M Grace Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.9% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$986k · 5 repeat orgs$574k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
2

Total granted

$986k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+87%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $539k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

  • TC
    THE COMPANY OF THE REDWOOD LIBRARY AND ATHENAEUM
    2× · 2023–2024 · $825k · revenue -36%
  • SH
    SRBA HISTORIC BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $65k · revenue -19%
  • AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • GO
    Green Oceans
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • NY
    NEW YORK CHORAL SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +83%

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
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
2
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.

3
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
4
The Newport Tree Conservancy

The Newport Tree Conservancy is Dedicated to Fostering a healthy growing urban forest in the City of Newport, Rhode Isalnd though a permanent tree management and planting program for the benefit of present and future citizens of Newport.

Environment
5
New York Yacht Club Foundation

Maintain, restore & preserve the exterior of the historically significant buildings

Community Improvement
6
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
7
Nantucket Historical Association

The nantucket historical association preserves and interprets the history of nantucket through its programs, collections, and properties, in order to promote the island's significance and foster an appreciation of it among all audiences.

Arts & Culture
8
The Preservation Society of Newport County

The preservation society of newport county's mission is to protect, preserve, and present an exceptional collection of house museums and landscapes in one of the most historically intact cities in america. we hold in public trust the…

Arts & Culture
9
Newport Restoration Foundation

Nrf promotes and invests in the heritage of the newport community, the traditional building trades, and doris duke's fine and decorative arts and collections, for the enjoyment, education and inspiration to all.

10
The Antiquarian & Landmarks Society Inc

Connecticut landmarks ("ctl") uses historic properties to inspire an understanding of our complex past.

Arts & Culture
11
Newport Country Club

Private golf club

Recreation & Sports
12
New England Aquarium Corporation

The new england aquarium is a catalyst for global change through public engagement and education, commitment to marine animal conservation, innovative scientific research, and effective advocacy for a vital and vibrant ocean.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aquidneck Island Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Conexion Latina Newport. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE COMPANY OF THE REDWOOD LIBRARY AND ATHENAEUM — $825,000 · OtherTHE COMPANY OF THE REDWOOD LIBRARY AND ATHENA…LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYHOOVER INSTITUTION — $36,000 · Other+2 more — $30,300 · OtherDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $675,157 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING IN…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $350,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CAL…+1 more — $2,000 · EducationBATH & TENNIS HISTORIC BUILDING PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureSRBA HISTORIC BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $65,000 · Arts & CultureNEWPORT COUNTRY CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION TRUST — $10,000 · Arts & CultureHOPE FUNDS FOR CANCER RESEARCH — $67,000 · HealthAQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST — $40,000 · EnvironmentGreen Oceans — $25,000 · EnvironmentCONEXION LATINA NEWPORT — $10,000 · Human Services
Other$891,300Philanthropy$675,157Education$352,000Arts & Culture$175,000Health$67,000Environment$65,000Human Services$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE COMPANY OF THE REDWOOD LIBRARY AND ATHENAEUM — $825,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $675,157 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $350,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBATH & TENNIS HISTORIC BUILDING PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetHOPE FUNDS FOR CANCER RESEARCH — $67,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSRBA HISTORIC BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetAQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST — $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGreen Oceans — $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CHORAL SOCIETY INC — $10,300 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNEWPORT COUNTRY CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCONEXION LATINA NEWPORT — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary TrustIL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Ejmp Fund for Philanthropy · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 M Grace Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Robert M Grace Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Robert M Grace Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 14 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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