· Private foundation
The Bancroft Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Nativity Preparatory School | $25,000 |
| Adoption Rhode Island | $20,000 |
| Our Sisters' School | $20,000 |
| BuddyMentor Inc | $20,000 |
| New Beginnings Family Academy | $10,600 |
| Community Boating Center | $10,000 |
| Hopecam Inc | $10,000 |
| Lucy's Hearth | $10,000 |
| SYMI-fr Inc | $6,000 |
| College Bound | $6,000 |
| Gnome Inc DBA Gnome Surf | $6,000 |
| Just World International | $6,000 |
| Family Service of RI | $5,400 |
| FabNewport | $4,000 |
| Embrace Grace | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $124k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +45% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
ADOPTION RHODE ISLAND6× · 2019–2024 · $95k · revenue +83%- HIHOPECAM INC5× · 2019–2024 · $40k · revenue +101%
- OSOUR SISTERS SCHOOL3× · 2022–2024 · $38k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- CSClarke Schools for Hearing & Speechone grant, 2022 · $18k
- RWROBERT W JOHNSON COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +30%
- BBBig Brothers Big Sisters of RIone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Rhode island kids count, inc. is a not-for-profit corporation. the organization is a children's policy and advocacy organization that provides information on child well-being, stimulates dialogue on children's issues, and promotes…
The organization provides child care services to families through child care centers and a network of family child care homes. child care of the berkshires also strengthens families through support services and home visiting focused on…
The parent support network of ri is a group of parents, family members, transition age youth, and adults with behavioral health lived experience who are committed to supporting and assisting peers and working with statewide and national…
Educate children, empower families, inspire teachers, engage community, embrace diversity, embody equity
Since 1972, the open center for children has worked in partnership with families to create a nurturing early education and care experience. the play-based curriculum inspires children to become motivated, self-directed learners, feel…
In partnership with families, we as an educational community, foster learning in a nurturing, supportive, child-centered environment immersed in nature. we teach, respect and celebrate diversity, individuality, and the whole child.
The center strives to provide a range of services that support working parents while fostering the emotional, social, physical and intellectual growth of their children. special consideration is given to low income families and families…
Camp Casco builds community for families affected by childhood cancer in New England through free camps and social opportunities.
To provide educational opportunities in the form of tuition aid to effective non-public schools, uniforms, after-school and summer programs, tutoring and mentoring for those high-risk, low-income children who have a parent with a history…
The mission of the providence children's museum is to inspire and celebrate learning through active play and exploration. the museum welcomes children and adults of all ages and backgrounds and from all communities although its focus is on…
Empowering children, young adults and families to achieve greater independence and emotional well-being.
Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adoption Rhode Island and the most unlike its peers is Symi-Fr Inc. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
27 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. 27 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 ADOPTION RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds HOPECAM INC ↗
- Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds LIVFREE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RHODE ISLAND CASA INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE BOUND INC ↗
- Who funds MARY'S SHELTER OF THE TREASURE COAST INC ↗
- Who funds SYMI-FR Inc ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W JOHNSON COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LUCY'S HEARTH ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds JustWorld International Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR UNDERWAY EXPERIENTIA L LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds GNOME INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds GIFTS TO GIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FABNEWPORT 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 · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Billy Andrade-Brad Faxon Charities for Children Inc · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Harry M Miriam C Will C Horton F · Newportfed Charitable Foundation · Gruben Charitable 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 Bancroft 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.
- Hall Neighborhood House Inc — 27% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Gnome Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Community Boating Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 0% 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.