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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.

$515k
Granted FY2022
42
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$181k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2022 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k38 grants · $196k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $294k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$33M
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 99% of reported assets are held in S Apple.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CHARIHO LITTLE LEAGUE$5,000
OAKWOOD ATHLETIC & MENTOR ASSOC$5,000
SAINT PHILIP SCHOOL$5,000
WARWICK NORTH LITTLE LEAGUE$5,000
NORTH PROVIDENCE LITTLE LEAGUE$5,000
SAIL NEWPORT$5,000
INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME$5,000
RI WILDCATS BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION$5,000
NORTH SCITUATE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT$5,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RI WILDCATS BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION: $5k → 7%RI ROGUES FC: $5k → 7%POP WARNER LITTLE SCHOLARS SAKONNET: $5k → 7%CHILDREN'S WISHES: $5k → 7%FOSTER-GLOUCESTER REGIONAL SCHOOLS: $4k → 14%AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL: $5k → 16%CHARIHO LITTLE LEAGUE: $5k → 7%HERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM: $5k → 7%TIVERTON BASEBALL: $5k → 7%WARWICK NORTH LITTLE LEAGUE: $5k → 7%CLCF SPORTS INC: $5k → 14%NORTH KINGSTOWN SCHOOL DEPARTMENT: $5k → 7%TIVERTON JUNIOR BASKETBALL: $5k → 7%WARWICK FIREFIGHTERS SOCCER CLUB: $5k → 7%CRANSTON LITTLE LEAGUE: $7k → 14%NEW SHOREHAM SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5k → 7%INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME: $5k → 7%RI CHILDRENS GOLF: $5k → 7%BURRILVILLE GIRLS SOFTBALL ASSOCIAT: $5k → 14%SOUTH COUNTY YOUTH LACROSSE: $13k → 7%SAIL NEWPORT: $5k → 7%COVENTRY LITTLE LEAGUE: $5k → 7%SAINT BRENDAN SCHOOL: $5k → 14%THE PROUT SCHOOL: $12k → 7%WARWICK PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $114k → 7%NORTH SCITUATE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT: $5k → 14%RI TEABALL ASSOCIATION: $5k → 7%SAINT PIUS SCHOOL: $5k → 14%GREENWICH BAY SAILING ASSOC: $5k → 7%THE GORDON SCHOOL: $5k → 14%BUTTON HOLE KIDS CUP: $5k → 14%NORTH PROVIDENCE LITTLE LEAGUE: $5k → 14%ATLANTIC YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%OAKWOOD ATHLETIC & MENTOR ASSOC: $5k → 14%NORTH PROVIDENCE FOOTBALL ASSOC: $5k → 14%GREATER WOONSOCKET CATHOLIC REG: $5k → 14%SAINT TERESA CATHOLIC ELEM SCHOOL: $5k → 14%SAINT PHILIP SCHOOL: $5k → 14%PROVIDENCE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $181k → 14%STAGES OF FREEDOM: $5k → 14%ELMWOOD LITTLE LEAGUE: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Weston Ct Baseball & Softball Association Inc

Town Baseball Program

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2
Mystic Little League

Little League Baseball and Softball

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3
Easthampton Little League Inc

Little League Baseball and Softball

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4
Little League Baseball Inc Yarmouth Little League

To provide opportunities to play baseball and softball for boys and girls in the town of Yarmouth.

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5
Wybsl Inc

Three season organized recreational baseball and softball serving over 400 children in Westford.

Human Services
6
Swampscott Youth Baseball Inc

Amateur Athletic Organization

Recreation & Sports
7
Wellsboro Little League

Little league baseball organization.

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8
Wareham Little League Baseball Inc

To Provide Wareham Youths Ages 5 Thru 12 The Opportunity To Learn The Sport Of Baseball In A Fun And Safe Environment.

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9
New England Softball Club Inc

Youth Softball Team

Recreation & Sports
10
South Windsor Little League Inc

Provide little league baseball for the residents of south windsor ct ages 5 through 18.

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11
Newton Little League

Offer seasonal baseball programs for all children ages four through fifteen

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12
Little League Baseball Inc Windsor Little League

Little league baseball and softball program for children for the Towns of Windsor and Bloomfield, Connecticut.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bristol Ct Little League Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROVIDENCE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $180,911 · OtherPROVIDENCE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTWARWICK PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $113,537 · OtherWARWICK PUBLIC SCHOOLS+28 more: $160,718 · Other+28 moreSAIL NEWPORT: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsNORTH PROVIDENCE JETS FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsTiverton Baseball: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsBRISTOL CT LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsINTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports2390301 COVENTRY LITTLE LEAGUE: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsGREENWICH BAY SAILING ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsWarwick Fire Fighters Soccer Club Inc: $4,959 · Recreation & SportsHERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM: $5,000 · Arts & CultureStages of Freedom: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S WISH GROUP OF RHODE ISLAND: $5,000 · HealthTIVERTON JUNIOR BASKETBALL LEAGUE: $4,895 · Youth Development
Other$455,166Recreation & Sports$39,959Arts & Culture$10,000Health$5,000Youth Development$4,895

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAIL NEWPORT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Gordon School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRISTOL CT LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget2390301 COVENTRY LITTLE LEAGUE: $5,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetStages of Freedom: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGREENWICH BAY SAILING ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S WISH GROUP OF RHODE ISLAND: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWarwick Fire Fighters Soccer Club Inc: $4,959 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Elmwood Little League ↗
  • Who funds SAIL NEWPORT ↗
  • Who funds NORTH PROVIDENCE JETS FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Tiverton Baseball ↗
  • Who funds The Gordon School ↗
  • Who funds BRISTOL CT LITTLE LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds 2390301 COVENTRY LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds Stages of Freedom ↗
  • Who funds GREENWICH BAY SAILING ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S WISH GROUP OF RHODE ISLAND ↗
  • Who funds Warwick Fire Fighters Soccer Club Inc ↗

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.

The Rhode Island Comm…Amica Companies Found…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Act Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Act Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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