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Rockwood Charitable Foundation

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.

$300k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$78k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$578kEducation$322kYouth Development$236kHuman Services$127kPhilanthropy$125kInternational$108kReligion$65kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $141k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLAY ADK$78,000
THE CORLISS INSTITUTE$62,500
ADK FOUNDATION$14,500
CHRISTIAN CHURCHES UNITED OF THE TRI-COUNTY AREA$10,000
KICK IN FOR KIDS$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$10,000
FAITH AID$10,000
CROSSROADS RI$10,000
BARRINGTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$10,000
WORLD GOSPEL MISSION$8,000
FAITHS FOOTSIES$7,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS NORTHERN NE$7,000
COMMUNITY PREP SCHOOL$6,000
RI COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $3k → 9%CHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF THE NC: $3k → 14%YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $10k → 14%MERCY CHEFS: $2k → 20%RISE AGAIN OUTREACH: $5k → 7%HOPE STATION: $3k → 8%CHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF THE NC: $3k → 14%YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $9k → 14%MERCY CHEFS: $2k → 20%CHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF THE NC: $3k → 14%YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $7k → 14%CHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF THE NC: $3k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $3k → 14%YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $5k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $2k → 14%YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $4k → 14%YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $4k → 14%CROSSROADS RI: $10k → 14%CROSSROADS RI: $8k → 14%CROSSROADS RI: $7k → 14%CROSSROADS RI: $3k → 14%CROSSROADS RI: $3k → 14%HIGH PEAKS HOSPICE: $5k → 16%HIGH PEAKS HOSPICE: $5k → 16%HIGH PEAKS HOSPICE: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
RI
CO
VA
MD
DC
LA
MS
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 33 repeat orgs$133k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
27

Total granted

$1.6M
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+30%

Still filing today

79%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CORLISS INSTITUTE INC THE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $393k · revenue +87%
  • PA
    PLAY ADK INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $197k · revenue +71% · 28% of their budget
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $122k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +46%
  • MS
    MEDICINES SANS FRONTIERSDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Global Partners in Care

The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.

International
2
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
3
Mercy Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
4
Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
5
Saratoga Care Inc

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
6
Care Dimensions Inc

Care dimensions, inc. (cd) enriches quality of life by providing expert care, support, education, and consultation for those affected by life limiting illness, death, and loss.

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7
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
8
St Francis Hospital Foundation Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
9
St Francis Hospital

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
10
The Mercy Hospital Inc

We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. the mercy hospital is a member of trinity health of new england…

Health
11
Rumford Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
12
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eliot Community Human Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Adk Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
31/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CORLISS INSTITUTE INC THE: $392,500 · OtherCORLISS INSTITUTE INC THECHRISTIAN CHURCHES UNITED OF THE TRI-COUNTY AREA: $53,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN CHURCHES UNITED OF THE TRI-COUNTY ARE…WEST BAY CHRISIAN ACADEMY: $44,000 · OtherWEST BAY CHRISIAN ACADEMYWORLD GOSPEL MISSION: $31,000 · OtherOasis Ministries For Spiritual Development Inc: $25,000 · Other+30 more: $175,500 · Other+30 moreBARRINGTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $165,500 · EducationBARRINGTON CHRIS…Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $37,000 · EducationChildren of Fall…THE WILDCAT FOUNDATION: $26,000 · EducationTHE WILDCAT FOUN…PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE: $22,000 · EducationPAUL SMITHS COLL…+1 more: $5,000 · EducationPLAY ADK INC: $197,000 · Youth DevelopmentPLAY ADK INCKICK IN FOR KIDS INCORPORATED: $39,000 · Youth DevelopmentKICK IN FOR KID…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $122,000 · HealthDana-Farb…FAITHS FOOTSIES INC: $7,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $6,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $4,000 · HealthADK FOUNDATION: $89,500 · PhilanthropyTHE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyEXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION: $11,000 · PhilanthropyInternational Rescue Committee INC: $44,000 · InternationalFaith Aid: $23,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $21,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $10,000 · International+1 more: $2,000 · InternationalTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $39,000 · Human ServicesCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $29,000 · Human ServicesHIGH PEAKS HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE IN: $15,000 · Human ServicesCHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesRISE AGAIN OUTREACH INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesGOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $4,000 · Human Services+3 more: $9,500 · Human Services
Other$721,000Education$255,500Youth Development$236,000Health$144,000Philanthropy$120,500International$115,500Human Services$111,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCORLISS INSTITUTE INC THE: $392,500 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetPLAY ADK INC: $197,000 over 6y, 28% of budgetBARRINGTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $165,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $122,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN CHURCHES UNITED OF THE TRI-COUNTY AREA: $53,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $44,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $39,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKICK IN FOR KIDS INCORPORATED: $39,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $37,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $29,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILDCAT FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetOasis Ministries For Spiritual Development Inc: $25,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetFaith Aid: $23,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetPAUL SMITHS COLLEGE: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $21,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH PEAKS HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE IN: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFive Rivers Conservation Trust: $7,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTOGETHER WITH LOVE: $6,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetPAUL SMITHS GABRIELS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $6,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSTORMWISE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetDICKINSON COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRISE AGAIN OUTREACH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetHarbor Homes Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE STATION OPPORTUNITY AREA NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: $3,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetADIRONDACK MEDICAL CENTER: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOM2MOM ATLANTA SOUTH INC: $3,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetBATEY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MAINE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Foundation for En…The Rhode Island Comm…Amica Companies Found…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesPA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rockwood Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rockwood Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Rockwood Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rockwood Charitable Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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