· Private foundation
The Beacon Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k170 grants · $155k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH | $20,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF MA AND RI | $12,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| GREGGS GIVING TREE INC | $5,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND CPCU SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $5,000 |
| DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
| CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND | $5,000 |
| MEETING STREET | $4,000 |
| FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND | $3,000 |
| WE SHARE HOPE | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| RHODE ISLAND KIDS COUNT INC | $2,500 |
| ADOPTION RHODE ISLAND | $2,500 |
| PRESERVE RHODE ISLAND | $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 (FY21–24, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% 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 +26% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 58 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- RIRHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +7%
RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION3× · 2022–2024 · $19k · revenue +27%- RIRHODE ISLAND CPCU SCHOLARSHIP FUND3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- CSCPCU SOCIETY RHODE ISLAND CHAPTERone grant, 2021 · $5k
- BFBISHOP FEEHAN HIGH SCHOOL INCone grant, 2021 · $5k
- RCRI COMMUNITY FOOD BANKone grant, 2021 · $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.
The organization's mission is to eliminate health disparities in rhode island and beyond. the organization develops innovative public health programs, conducts translational and policy research, provides clinical services, and trains…
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…
Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council's mission is to promote changes wthin communities in Rhode Island that encourages, inspires and makes possible for individuals with disabilities to create, pursue and achieve lives that are…
To assist rhode islanders with differing abilities in their efforts to achieve full inclusion in society and to exercise their civil and human rights through the provision of legal advocacy.
Refocus is a human service agency that serves adults with differing physical and developmental needs. we are an organization of dedicated people offering opportunities for growth in a loving, trusting, and challenging environment. we value…
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…
Preservation of affordable housing in the state of rhode island
The mission of rhode island health care association is to enhance its members' ability to provide sustainable quality health care and quality of life to the residents of rhode island's skilled nursing facilities.as a state affiliate of the…
To provide quality journalism and compelling storytelling that informs, educates, and inspirescommunity.
The purpose of the ricadv is to eliminate domestic violence in rhode island our mission is to support and enhance the work of our member agencies and to provide leadership on the issue of domestic violence.
The university of rhode island alumni association informs and engages current and future alumni as committed partners of the university, its missions and traditions.
The rhode island bankers association will serve as the sole rhode island based organization serving the banking industry and will advocate for its member institutions and participate alongside other new england banking industry…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adoption Rhode Island and the most unlike its peers is Rhode Island Cpcu Scholarship Fund. 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
149 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. 149 of the 196 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 RHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND CPCU SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds GREGG'S GIVING TREE INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Meeting Street ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA ↗
- Who funds Feed RI ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION STAND DOWN RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF NEWPORT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PAWTUCKET ↗
- Who funds FIRSTWORKS ↗
- Who funds HOPEHEALTH HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MCAULEY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PROVIDENCE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THUNDERMIST HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANGELS GIVING BACK ↗
- Who funds FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES TO KIDS RI INC ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF RI INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WARWICK ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER HEALTH SERVICES 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 · Amica Companies Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust
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 Beacon 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.
- Cooperative Production Inc — 93% of income from government
- Amegoinc — 76% of income from government
- Goodwill Industries of Southern New England — 11% of income from government
- Impact Melanoma Inc — 3% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Beacon Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Beacon Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.