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The Amy J Bare Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$85k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$137kArts & Culture$122kAnimals$83kRecreation & Sports$63kFood & Nutrition$54kHealth$53kCommunity Improvement$41kHuman Services$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EQUITARIAN INITIATIVE$8,500
HOLE IN THE WALL GANG$6,000
BSU FOUNDATION$5,000
BISHSTRONG FOUNDATION INC$5,000
INCERNATION CAMP$5,000
STEAMSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AME$4,000
B FREE FARM$4,000
URI FOUNDATION$3,500
SAVE YOUR ASS LONG EAR RESCUE$3,500
FRIENDS OF JACK FOUNDATION ST ANN$3,000
AQUIDNECK LAND TRUST$3,000
THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS$3,000
THE SHARE FOUNDATION$3,000
DEAD DOGS WALKING TENNESSEE INC$2,500
LITTLE PINK HOUSES OF HOPE$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $3k → 16%The Home for Little Wanderers: $5k → 16%The Home for Little Wanderers: $5k → 16%The Home for Little Wanderers: $5k → 16%The Home for Little Wanderers: $5k → 16%Mobile Ministries: $5k → 11%BISHSTRONG FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 11%Mobile Ministries: $5k → 11%Mobile Ministries: $5k → 11%Mobile Ministries: $5k → 11%Mobile Ministries: $4k → 11%MOBILE MINISTRIES INC: $3k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
MN
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA
TN
NC
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$479k · 38 repeat orgs$128k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
32

Total granted

$479k
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
0%

Still filing today

66%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 Society
    7× · 2017–2023 · $57k · revenue +283%
  • BC
    BRISTOL COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $41k · revenue +712%
  • MM
    Mobile Ministries Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • WA
    WORCESTER ACADEMY
    one grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +1%
  • CF
    Coggeshall Farm
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • S
    SSTAR
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
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
2
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
3
Friends of the Scituate Shelter Inc

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.

Human Services
4
Boston Architectural College

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

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5
Preserve Rhode Island

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…

Arts & Culture
6
The Alumni Association of the University of Rhode Island

The university of rhode island alumni association informs and engages current and future alumni as committed partners of the university, its missions and traditions.

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7
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
8
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
9
Hospital Association of Rhode Island

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…

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10
Rhode Island Zoological Society

To serve the community as a valued resource for education, conservation and recreation.

Animals
11
Worcester Animal Rescue League Inc

Provide and promote humane animal welfare to pets in need.

Animals
12
Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 79 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
26/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRISTOL COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC: $41,000 · OtherBRISTOL COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION INCAtlantis Charter School: $34,200 · OtherAtlantis Charter SchoolDEAD DOGS WALKING TENNESSEE INC: $20,500 · OtherDEAD DOGS WALKING TENNESSEE INCB FREE FARM INC: $17,500 · OtherUniversity of Rhode Island: $13,000 · OtherWESTPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $12,000 · OtherHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $17,000 · OtherAQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST: $15,400 · Other+40 more: $160,899 · Other+40 moreOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $56,730 · Arts & CultureOld Dartmouth His…Fall River Historical Society: $18,200 · Arts & CultureFall River Histor…COGGESHALL FARM MUSEUM: $8,000 · Arts & CultureCOGGESHALL FARM M…PROVIDENCE ART CLUB: $7,000 · Arts & CulturePROVIDENCE ART CL…STEAMSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $4,000 · Arts & CultureTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $31,300 · EducationTRUSTEES OF…WORCESTER ACADEMY: $13,000 · EducationWORCESTER A…UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $8,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY …President and Fellows of Middlebury College: $4,200 · EducationPresident a…SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $4,000 · EducationSPRINGFIELD…BOOKS ARE WINGS: $3,500 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationMobile Ministries Inc: $26,500 · Human ServicesMobile Mi…THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $23,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME …Bishstrong Foundation Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesBishstron…LITTLE PINK HOUSES OF HOPE: $8,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF JACK FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S WISH GROUP OF RHODE ISLAND: $6,500 · HealthGNOME INC: $6,500 · Health21 FRIENDS INC: $3,000 · HealthJACE BEATS CANCER INC: $2,500 · HealthHope Reins Inc: $2,000 · HealthSAVE YOUR ASS LONG EAR RESCUE: $18,500 · AnimalsVETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS: $7,000 · AnimalsBUTTONWOOD PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $4,000 · AnimalsAll Dog Rescue Inc: $2,000 · AnimalsHORSE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION OF FLORIDA INC: $1,500 · AnimalsEQUITARIAN INITIATIVE: $26,000 · International
Other$331,499Arts & Culture$98,930Education$68,500Human Services$54,500Health$35,500Animals$33,000International$26,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $56,730 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBRISTOL COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC: $41,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $31,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMobile Ministries Inc: $26,500 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetEQUITARIAN INITIATIVE: $26,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE YOUR ASS LONG EAR RESCUE: $18,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetFall River Historical Society: $18,200 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST: $15,400 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWORCESTER ACADEMY: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $8,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOGGESHALL FARM MUSEUM: $8,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetLITTLE PINK HOUSES OF HOPE: $8,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF JACK FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetVETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS: $7,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPROVIDENCE ART CLUB: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S WISH GROUP OF RHODE ISLAND: $6,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGNOME INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAMY'S ANGELS CORPORATION: $6,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSTEAMSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBishstrong Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $4,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUTTONWOOD PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOOKS ARE WINGS: $3,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget21 FRIENDS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSoc for Human Advncmt through Rehab Engr Fndtn Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJACE BEATS CANCER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMoriah Wilson Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL WALL COMMITTEE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHope Reins Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetYEAH CORPS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAll Dog Rescue Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFOUNDATION TO ADVANCE CATHOLIC EDUCATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHORSE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION OF FLORIDA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF FALL RIVER: $1,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST ANDREW'S SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProvidence CityArts for Youth Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 FRIENDS OF JACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE ART CLUB ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S WISH GROUP OF RHODE ISLAND ↗
  • Who funds GNOME INC ↗
  • Who funds AMY'S ANGELS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds STEAMSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Bishstrong Foundation 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…Grimshaw-Gudewicz Cha…Bristol County Saving…Southcoast Community …The Champlin Foundati…The Carney Family Cha…Amica Companies Found…United Way of Rhode I…Arbella Insurance Fou…Citizens Charitable F…Rockland Trust Charit…Network for Good
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI27.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Amy J Bare Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Amy J Bare Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
2report 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 79 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home