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Simon W Wardwell Foundation

Organization was created to provide grants, support, endowment and assistance to, or to engage directly in activities that support the studying, planning, designing, erecting, constructing, enhancing, improving or modernizing the operations in rhode island's public services including hospitals and health care facilities, educational…

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$160k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Education$1.8MHuman Services$1.1MYouth Development$583kHealth$480kPhilanthropy$279kCommunity Improvement$250kFood & Nutrition$100kEnvironment$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $600
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $94k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.0M
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RHODE ISLAND MAYORAL ACADEMY (SM)BLACKSTONE VALLEY (DBA - BLACKSTONE VALLEY$160,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PAWTUCKET$110,000
SHEILA C SKIP NOWELL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$75,000
SAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER - SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF PROVIDENCE$70,000
SAINT ANTOINE RESIDENCE$60,000
CENTRAL FALLS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION$60,000
SHRI SERVICE CORP$58,076
UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION &ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT$55,660
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OFPAWTUCKET INC$50,000
RISE PREP MAYORAL ACADEMY$50,000
PROGRESSO LATINO$50,000
SAINT RAPHAEL ACADEMY$50,000
COWDEN STREET COLLABORATIVE INC (DBA - SEGUE INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING)$50,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF RI INC$50,000
CONNECTING FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC$50,000
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 (FY21–25, $913k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PROGRESSO LATINO: $60k → 14%PROGRESO LATINO: $50k → 14%PROGRESSO LATINO: $50k → 14%SAINT ANTOINE RESIDENCE: $60k → 14%SAINT ANTOINE RESIDENCE: $35k → 14%YMCA OF PAWTUCKET: $106k → 14%YMCA OF PAWTUCKET: $100k → 14%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $100k → 14%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $87k → 14%YMCA OF PAWTUCKET: $75k → 14%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $70k → 14%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OFPAWTUCKET INC: $50k → 14%SHRI: $10k → 14%FAMILY SERVICES OF RI: $60k → 14%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.

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.5M · 19 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
21

Total granted

$3.5M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+17%

Still filing today

95%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $271k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PAWTUCKET
    5× · 2021–2025 · $483k · revenue +50%
  • THE LEARNING COMMNUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $345k · revenue +17%
  • RI
    RHODE ISLAND MAYORAL ACADEMY (SM) BLACKSTONE VALLEY
    3× · 2021–2025 · $320k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF PAWTUCKET LIBRARY
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • NA
    NOWELL ACADEMY
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • VC
    VNA CARE OF NE
    one grant, 2023 · $62k

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
The Rhode Island Public Health Foundation

The organization's mission is to eliminate health disparities in rhode island and beyond. the organization develops innovative public health programs, conducts translational and policy research, provides clinical services, and trains…

Health
2
Providence Preparatory Charter School

The mission of pvd prep is to prepare a diverse group of providence middle school students for college preparatory high schools.

Education
3
Rhode Island Health Care Assoc

The mission of rhode island health care association is to enhance its members' ability to provide sustainable quality health care and quality of life to the residents of rhode island's skilled nursing facilities.as a state affiliate of the…

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4
Hospital Association of Rhode Island

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…

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5
The Highlander Charter School

Using innovative education practices as a catalyst for social change, highlander charter school ensures that all children have the opportunity and support necessary to meet their full potential.

Education
6
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.

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7
Roger Williams Medical Center Fka Roger Williams Hospital

Roger williams medical center's mission is to provide healthcare services in providence, rhode island and surrounding communities.

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8
Parent Support Network of Rhode Island

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…

Human Services
9
Paul Cuffee School

Personal initiative, perserverance and social responsibility. our facility is committed to differentiated instruction and evidence-based practices that connect academic success to social-emotional learning.

Education
10
Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council

Advancement of fiscally responsible government, competitive tax policies, and economic opportunities for all in rhode island by providing objective and nonpartisan research and analysis.

Public Benefit
11
The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc

Rippowam Cisqua School creates independent thinkers, confident communicators, and engaged leaders who respect and contribute meaningfully to a diverse and increasingly complex global society.

Education
12
Rhode Island Kids Count Inc

Rhode island kids count, inc. is a not-for-profit corporation. the organization is a children's policy and advocacy organization that provides information on child well-being, stimulates dialogue on children's issues, and promotes…

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pace Organization of Rhode Island and the most unlike its peers is Winners Circle Xr Academy 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 36 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%7%<5yr13%3%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr14%16%35–55yr19%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%7%<5yr13%1%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr18%22%20–35yr14%15%35–55yr19%42%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
11%
384/3,571

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 47 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
16/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE LEARNING COMMNUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $345,000 · EducationTHE LEARNING COMMNUNITY CHART…RHODE ISLAND MAYORAL ACADEMY (SM) BLACKSTONE VALLEY — $320,000 · EducationRHODE ISLAND MAYORAL ACADEMY …Winners Circle XR Academy Inc — $104,810 · EducationWinners Circle XR Academy IncSOPHIA ACADEMY — $97,827 · EducationSOPHIA ACADEMYUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT — $86,328 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FO…THE CUMBERLAND LIBRARY FUND INC — $80,000 · EducationTHE CUMBERLAND LIBRARY FUND I…SHEILA C SKIP NOWELL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $75,000 · EducationSHEILA C SKIP NOWELL LEADERSH…RISE PREP MAYORAL ACADEMY — $50,000 · EducationCOWDEN STREET COLLABORATIVE INC — $50,000 · EducationNEW ENGLAND BASECAMP — $49,400 · EducationSAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER — $200,000 · OtherSAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTERSHRI SERVICE CORP — $108,051 · OtherSHRI SERVICE CORPFRIENDS OF PAWTUCKET LIBRARY — $100,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF PAWTUCKET LIBRARYNOWELL ACADEMY — $100,000 · OtherNOWELL ACADEMYVNA CARE OF NE — $61,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherSAINT RAPHAEL ACADEMY — $50,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF N RI — $50,000 · OtherCOWDEN STREET COLLABORATIVE INC (DBA - SEGUE INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING) — $50,000 · OtherBoys & Girls Club of Northern Rhode Island — $50,000 · OtherBLACKSTONE VAL COMM HEALTH CARE — $50,000 · OtherURI FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI — $49,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF RI INC — $100,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF RI INCOLNEYVILLE HOUSING CORPORATION — $50,000 · OtherSAVE THE BAY INC — $45,000 · Other+6 more — $155,250 · Other+6 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PAWTUCKET INC — $331,233 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN…JEANNE JUGAN RESIDENCE OF THE LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC — $257,000 · Human ServicesJEANNE JUGAN RESIDENC…PROGRESO LATINO — $160,000 · Human ServicesPROGRESO LATINOSAINT ANTOINE RESIDENCE — $95,100 · Human ServicesSAINT ANTOINE RESIDEN…FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE OF RHO…+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PAWTUCKET — $483,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRL…CENTRAL FALLS CHILDREN FOUNDATION — $170,000 · HealthBlackstone Valley Community Health Care Inc — $56,000 · HealthTHUNDERMIST HEALTH CENTER — $50,000 · HealthPACE ORGANIZATION OF RHODE ISLAND — $45,900 · HealthKENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $19,744 · Health+1 more — $100 · HealthPAWTUCKET FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Community ImprovementCONNECTING FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $100,000 · Community ImprovementOCEAN STATE CHARITIES TRUST — $278,840 · Philanthropy
Education$1,258,365Other$1,269,051Human Services$913,333Youth Development$483,000Health$341,744Community Improvement$300,000Philanthropy$278,840

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PAWTUCKET — $483,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetTHE LEARNING COMMNUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $345,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PAWTUCKET INC — $331,233 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetRHODE ISLAND MAYORAL ACADEMY (SM) BLACKSTONE VALLEY — $320,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOCEAN STATE CHARITIES TRUST — $278,840 over 4y, 20% of budgetJEANNE JUGAN RESIDENCE OF THE LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC — $257,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetPAWTUCKET FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetSAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER — $200,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCENTRAL FALLS CHILDREN FOUNDATION — $170,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetPROGRESO LATINO — $160,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetWinners Circle XR Academy Inc — $104,810 over 2y, 33% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF RI INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCONNECTING FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSOPHIA ACADEMY — $97,827 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetSAINT ANTOINE RESIDENCE — $95,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT — $86,328 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CUMBERLAND LIBRARY FUND INC — $80,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetSHEILA C SKIP NOWELL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $75,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBlackstone Valley Community Health Care Inc — $56,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRISE PREP MAYORAL ACADEMY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOLNEYVILLE HOUSING CORPORATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOWDEN STREET COLLABORATIVE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHUNDERMIST HEALTH CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Northern Rhode Island — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNEW ENGLAND BASECAMP — $49,400 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetPACE ORGANIZATION OF RHODE ISLAND — $45,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE THE BAY INC — $45,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $19,744 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSHRI SERVICE CORPS — $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC — $100 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.

The Rhode Island Comm…The Champlin Foundati…Amica Companies Found…Bristol County Saving…United Way of Rhode I…Centreville Savings B…Ralph R Papitto & Bar…Washington Trust Co C…Navigant Credit UnionThe Beacon FoundationBanknewport Charitabl…Harborone Foundation …
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI51.9× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Navigant Credit Union · The Beacon Foundation · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island

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 Simon W Wardwell 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Simon W Wardwell Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Simon W Wardwell 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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