Rhode Island · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $160,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 21
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $20M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 52% of the organizations Simon W Wardwell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $586k 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 | 21 | $1.1M | 33% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $1.3M | 52% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $1.2M | 70% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $673k | 58% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $480k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Pawtucket | $483,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Learning Commnunity Charter School Inc | $345,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Pawtucket Inc | $331,233 | 4 | 1% |
| Rhode Island Mayoral Academy (Sm) Blackstone Valley | $320,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Ocean State Charities Trust | $278,840 | 4 | 20% |
| Jeanne Jugan Residence of the Little Sisters of the Poor Inc | $257,000 | 3 | 2% |
| San Miguel Education Center | $200,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Pawtucket Foundation | $200,000 | 3 | 17% |
| Central Falls Children Foundation | $170,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Progreso Latino | $160,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($796k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Simon W Wardwell Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 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 · 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
How this is measured
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About Simon W Wardwell Foundation
- How much does Simon W Wardwell Foundation give?
- Simon W Wardwell Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $1,143,005 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 21 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Simon W Wardwell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Human Services (23%), Youth Development (12%).
- Who are Simon W Wardwell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Boys & Girls Clubs of Pawtucket ($483k), The Learning Commnunity Charter School Inc ($345k), Young Men's Christian Association of Pawtucket Inc ($331k).
- Does Simon W Wardwell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Simon W Wardwell Foundation 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 Simon W Wardwell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, The Champlin Foundation, Amica Companies Foundation.
- Where is Simon W Wardwell Foundation based?
- Simon W Wardwell Foundation is based in RI.
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