· Private foundation
The Amy J Bare Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EQUITARIAN INITIATIVE | $8,500 |
| HOLE IN THE WALL GANG | $6,000 |
| BISHSTRONG FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| INCERNATION CAMP | $5,000 |
| BSU FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| B FREE FARM | $4,000 |
| STEAMSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AME | $4,000 |
| SAVE YOUR ASS LONG EAR RESCUE | $3,500 |
| URI FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| FRIENDS OF JACK FOUNDATION ST ANN | $3,000 |
| AQUIDNECK LAND TRUST | $3,000 |
| THE SHARE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS | $3,000 |
| DEAD DOGS WALKING TENNESSEE INC | $2,500 |
| LITTLE PINK HOUSES OF HOPE | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
Old Dartmouth Historical Society7× · 2017–2023 · $57k · revenue +283%- BCBRISTOL COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2022 · $41k · revenue +712%
- MMMobile Ministries Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- WAWORCESTER ACADEMYone grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +1%
- CFCoggeshall Farmone grant, 2020 · $10k
- ICIncarnation Campone grant, 2024 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Providing adoption assistance and veterinary care and grooming for impounded or lost animals. maintain and upkeep the scituate animal shelter. thousands of animals adopted up to date.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…
The university of rhode island alumni association informs and engages current and future alumni as committed partners of the university, its missions and traditions.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
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…
To be a proactive advocate for the hospitals in rhode island that is capable of working for and with the hospitals to positively influence public opinion, legislative outcomes and regulatory policy. the purpose of such advocacy is to…
To serve the community as a valued resource for education, conservation and recreation.
Provide and promote humane animal welfare to pets in need.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Animal Rescue League of Fall River. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
44 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. 44 of the 79 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 Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Mobile Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUITARIAN INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE YOUR ASS LONG EAR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Fall River Historical Society ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds COGGESHALL FARM MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LITTLE PINK HOUSES OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds VETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ART CLUB ↗
- Who funds GNOME INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S WISH GROUP OF RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds AMY'S ANGELS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Bishstrong Foundation 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 · Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation A Shabshelowitz Co-Trustee · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · The Champlin Foundation · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good
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 Amy J Bare Charitable Trust 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.
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Friends of Jack Foundation Inc — 36% of income from government
- Bristol County Chamber Foundation Inc — 11% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Gnome Inc — 4% of income from government
- Fall River Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Springfield College — 1% of income from government
- Westport Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
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.