Skip to content
Plinth

· Private foundation

The a J Deblois Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$19k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$36kReligion$17kHealth$6kHuman Services$4kPhilanthropy$3kArts & Culture$2kFood & Nutrition$1kEnvironment$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$241k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UCAP SCHOOL$5,650
THE MAY INSTITUTE$5,500
CATHOLIC CHARITY$2,500
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR$1,500
OSAMEQUIN FARM INC$1,000
ST MARGARET PARISH$1,000
THE SEEKONK LAND TRUST$500
THE SEEKONK LIBRARY TRUST$500
INSIGHT$500
PMC JIMMY FUND$100
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 (FY18–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%INSIGHT: $250 → 7%INSIGHT: $120 → 7%ACCESSPOINT RI: $1k → 14%ACCESS POINT RI: $1k → 14%ACCESS POINT RI: $250 → 14%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $2k → 14%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $500 → 14%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $200 → 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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$46k · 9 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
11

Total granted

$46k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-10%
+50%

Still filing today

56%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • TU
    THE UCAP SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $31k
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITY FUND
    3× · 2018–2020 · $5k
  • AR
    ACCESSPOINT RI
    3× · 2020–2023 · $2k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • GF
    GRATEFUL FOR GODS PROVIDENCE
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • BC
    BOSTON COLLEGE - UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • TT
    THE TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $1k

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 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
2
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
3
Perkins School for the Blind

Perkins school for the blind serves children and young adults with multiple disabilities, their families, educators, researchers, and professionals around the globe through education services, accessibility, professional development, and…

Education
4
Meadowbrook School of Weston Incorporated

Meadowbrook knows, loves, and challenges every child. together, as a diverse community with high academic, ethical and social standards, we nurture character, promote confidence, inspire creativity and foster critical thinking skills as we…

Education
5
Putney School Inc

The organization is committed to developing each student's full intellectual, artistic and physical potential. students are encouraged to challenge themselves intellectually, to pursue rigorous learning for its own sake, (see schedule…

6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

7
Odd Fellows Home of Massachusetts Inc

To provide our residents with the finest skilled nursing and rehabilitative services. dedicated to the basic tenents of friendship, love and truth, our highly trained staff provides compassionate care in a comfortable, secure environment.

8
Triangle Inc

Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.

9
Pine Cobble School Incorporated

Provide private school education for children from nursery school through grade 8

Education
10
Shore Country Day School

To provide an education that inspires a love of learning and encourages children to embrace academic challenge. we seek to build character, cultivate creativity, and value diversity as we help our children become healthy, compassionate…

11
The Trustees of Reservations

Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.

Environment
12
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is In-Sight and the most unlike its peers is Osamequin Farm Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE UCAP SCHOOL — $31,150 · OtherTHE UCAP SCHOOLGRATEFUL FOR GODS PROVIDENCE — $10,000 · OtherGRATEFUL FOR GODS PROVIDENCECATHOLIC CHARITY FUND — $5,200 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITY FUNDBOSTON COLLEGE - UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT — $2,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITY — $2,500 · OtherTHE MATT LIGHT FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Other+11 more — $5,400 · Other+11 moreTHE MAY INSTITUTE INC — $5,500 · HealthACCESSPOINT RI — $2,250 · Human ServicesJEANNE JUGAN RESIDENCE OF THE LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC — $2,200 · Human ServicesIN-SIGHT — $370 · Human ServicesSeekonk Library Trust — $1,000 · EducationDEDHAM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $300 · EducationOsamequin Farm Inc — $1,100 · Food & NutritionBUTTON HOLE — $100 · Recreation & Sports
Other$58,750Health$5,500Human Services$4,820Education$1,300Food & Nutrition$1,100Recreation & Sports$100

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 budgetTHE MAY INSTITUTE INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCESSPOINT RI — $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEANNE JUGAN RESIDENCE OF THE LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC — $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOsamequin Farm Inc — $1,100 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSeekonk Library Trust — $1,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetIN-SIGHT — $370 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDEDHAM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUTTON HOLE — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $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.

  • Who funds THE MAY INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds ACCESSPOINT RI
  • Who funds JEANNE JUGAN RESIDENCE OF THE LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC
  • Who funds Osamequin Farm Inc
  • Who funds Seekonk Library Trust
  • Who funds IN-SIGHT
  • Who funds DEDHAM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
  • Who funds BUTTON HOLE
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC

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 Community FoundationRI17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 The a J Deblois Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 18%
  • The May Institute Inc47% of income from government
  • Osamequin Farm Inc18% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–60%
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 The a J Deblois Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The a J Deblois Family 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 25 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.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph