· Private foundation
The Act Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k38 grants · $196k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $294k
Anchored by a single position — about 99% of reported assets are held in S Apple.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROVIDENCE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT | $180,911 |
| WARWICK PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $113,537 |
| SOUTH COUNTY YOUTH LACROSSE | $12,500 |
| THE PROUT SCHOOL | $12,200 |
| ELMWOOD LITTLE LEAGUE | $9,608 |
| CRANSTON LITTLE LEAGUE | $7,448 |
| BUTTON HOLE KIDS CUP | $5,000 |
| SAINT TERESA CATHOLIC ELEM SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME | $5,000 |
| CHARIHO LITTLE LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| RI WILDCATS BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| NORTH SCITUATE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| OAKWOOD ATHLETIC & MENTOR ASSOC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
Town Baseball Program
Little League Baseball and Softball
Little League Baseball and Softball
To provide opportunities to play baseball and softball for boys and girls in the town of Yarmouth.
Three season organized recreational baseball and softball serving over 400 children in Westford.
Amateur Athletic Organization
Little league baseball organization.
To Provide Wareham Youths Ages 5 Thru 12 The Opportunity To Learn The Sport Of Baseball In A Fun And Safe Environment.
Youth Softball Team
Provide little league baseball for the residents of south windsor ct ages 5 through 18.
Offer seasonal baseball programs for all children ages four through fifteen
Little league baseball and softball program for children for the Towns of Windsor and Bloomfield, Connecticut.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bristol Ct Little League Inc 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.
14 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. 14 of the 42 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Elmwood Little League ↗
- Who funds SAIL NEWPORT ↗
- Who funds 2390301 COVENTRY LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NORTH PROVIDENCE JETS FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Stages of Freedom ↗
- Who funds Tiverton Baseball ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S WISH GROUP OF RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL CT LITTLE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH BAY SAILING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds The Gordon School ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Warwick Fire Fighters Soccer Club 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.
Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Act 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.
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.