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Squantum Association 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.

$73k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
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 FY20222024.

Arts & Culture$35kEducation$29kHuman Services$15kPhilanthropy$15kCrime & Legal$10kFood & Nutrition$8kYouth Development$5k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHNSON & WALES$15,000
DAY ONE$10,000
PROVIDENCE ROTARIES CHARITIES F$10,000
RHODE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY$9,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$5,000
PONHAM ROCKS LIGHTHOUSE$5,000
PROVIDENCE PROMISE$5,000
134 COLLABORATIVE$5,000
STAGES OF FREEDOM$3,000
ADOPTION RI$2,500
BOOKS ARE WINGS$1,000
TOYS FOR TOTS$1,000
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBS-KIDS COATS$1,000
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 (FY22–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%134 COLLABORATIVE: $5k → 14%134 COLLABORATIVE: $5k → 14%ADOPTION RI: $3k → 14%134 COLLABORATIVE: $3k → 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.

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 68% of Squantum Association Charitable Foundation’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, 100% of the giving stays in RI; read by stated purpose it is 32% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Squantum Association Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$84k · 7 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 7 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

7
6

Total granted

$84k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+9%

Still filing today

43%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman 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

  • THE RHODE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $21k · revenue +20%
  • PR
    PROVIDENCE ROTARIES CHARITIES F
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k
  • 1C
    134 Collaborative
    3× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue -61%

Funded once

  • JW
    JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +9%
  • DAY ONE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • SO
    Stages of Freedom
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +2%

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
Children's Friend and Service

The mission of children's friend and service (the organization) is to be the innovative leader in improving the well-being and healthy development of rhode island's most vulnerable young children. they accomplish this by providing flexible…

Human Services
2
Massachusetts Historical Society

To promote understanding of the history of massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge.

Arts & Culture
3
Jamaican Association of Rhode Island
Arts & Culture
4
Providence Public Library

Providence public library engages learners, inspires thinkers, and connects diverse communities.

Education
5
Day of Portugal and Portuguese Heritage in Ri Inc

To celabrate the day of portugal in the state of rhode island

Human Services
6
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
7
Rhode Island Education Collective

To ensure that every rhode island child can go to a great public school.

Education
8
Care Transformation Collaborative of Ri

The mission of ctc-ri is to support the continuing transformation of primary care in rhode island as the foundation of an ever-improving integrated, accessible, affordable, and equitable health care system. ctc-ri brings together critical…

Health
9
Portsmouth Reads
Education
10
Rhode Island Bankers Association Foundation
Education
11
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
12
Newport Art Museum and Art Association

The newport art museum's mission is to share a diversity of art and experiences that spark reflection, inspiration, and connection within our newport community and beyond. the museum was founded in 1912 on the belief that arts and culture…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adoption Rhode Island and the most unlike its peers is Stages of Freedom. 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

8 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. 8 of the 13 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PROVIDENCE ROTARIES CHARITIES F — $15,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE ROTARIES CHARITIES FPONHAM ROCKS LIGHTHOUSE — $11,500 · OtherPONHAM ROCKS LIGHTHOUSEDAY ONE — $10,000 · OtherDAY ONEMEALS ON WHEELS — $7,500 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELSTOYS FOR TOTS — $4,000 · OtherTOYS FOR TOTS+1 more — $1,000 · OtherJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · EducationJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITYPROVIDENCE PROMISE — $12,500 · EducationPROVIDENCE PROMISEBOOKS ARE WINGS — $1,000 · EducationTHE RHODE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $20,976 · Arts & CultureTHE RHODE ISLAND HISTOR…Stages of Freedom — $3,000 · Arts & CultureStages of Freedom134 Collaborative — $12,500 · Human Services134 Collaborat…ADOPTION RHODE ISLAND — $2,500 · Human ServicesADOPTION RHODE…
Other$49,000Education$28,500Arts & Culture$23,976Human Services$15,000

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 RHODE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $20,976 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget134 Collaborative — $12,500 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetPROVIDENCE PROMISE — $12,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDAY ONE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetStages of Freedom — $3,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetADOPTION RHODE ISLAND — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOOKS ARE WINGS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 Champlin FoundationPA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Champlin Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Harry M Miriam C Will C Horton F · Cvs Health Charity Classic Inc · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · 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 Squantum Association Charitable 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Squantum Association Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Squantum Association 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 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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