How much did The Champlin Foundation grant in FY2024?

The Champlin Foundation reported 213 grants totaling $18,112,660 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is The Champlin Foundation based?

The Champlin Foundation is based in Providence, RI.

The Champlin Foundation

Foundation Dossiers

Providence, RI · Private foundation

The Champlin Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$18M

Granted FY2024still arriving

213

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$700k

Largest

01What you fund

0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2023.

Health$9.6MHuman Services$8.4MEducation$8.2MArts & Culture$7.2MYouth Development$4.0MAnimals$1.6MFood & Nutrition$1.4MEnvironment$943kOther$0

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

Each cell is that theme’s share of the year’s giving · ⚡ ringed cells mark a flagged jump.

03FY2024 · 213 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

Grant-size mix · FY2020–FY2023

FY20

12%

48%

39%

$20.0M

FY21

14%

50%

35%

$19.3M

FY22

13%

33%

54%

$20.7M

FY23

12%

40%

47%

$18.4M

Under $10k$10k–50k$50k–250k$250k+

In FY2020, 39% of your dollars went out in $250k+ checks; by FY2023 that was 47%. Each year’s bar is its own 100%, so the bands show the mix, not the total.

$49,750

Median grant

States reached

$457M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NEWPORT HOSPITAL	$700,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT	$500,000
RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$400,000
BUTLER HOSPITAL	$400,000
BLOCK ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER	$400,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND	$400,000
YMCA OF GREATER PROVIDENCE	$400,000
OCEAN STATE LIBRARIES	$386,660
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION	$350,000
SAVE THE BAY	$348,600
KENT HOSPITAL	$300,000
COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS	$300,000
AUDUBON SOCIETY OF RHODE ISLAND	$250,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHERN RHODE ISLAND	$250,000
YMCA OF PAWTUCKET	$250,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $7.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge

The orgs you fund vs the ones you don’t

You fund the strong — and they hold up better than the rest.

The organisations you back are larger and markedly healthier than comparable nonprofits in your area that you don't fund — clear evidence you pick well.

The kind of organization you back

60% of the organizations you back live mainly on donations, against 51% of the comparable nonprofits nearby you don’t fund. 36% of the ones you pick are financially resilient, against 22% of that field, and fewer show the warning signs below.

What they work on

Arts & Culture20% vs 9%

The nearby nonprofits you don’t fund are concentrated in Housing & Shelter.

How they hold up

Run recurring deficits28% vs 39%
Burning through reserves9% vs 15%
Lean on a single income source45% vs 60%

you fund (269) you don’t (736)· share of each group

You fund (0)You don’t (0)

Median size (revenue)——

Operating margin——

Financially fragile——

Comparison vs unfunded, size/cause-matched nonprofits in your county. Association, not proof — the funder enables, it does not solely cause.

repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$75M · 248 repeat orgs$19M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

248 repeat relationships — 137 still active in FY2024, 111 since wound down; 63 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

Of your 203 multi-year relationships, 45 repeat the same amount every year (17% of multi-year dollars), the pattern of a standing commitment. The rest vary year to year. Grant terms aren’t stated in the filing; this is inferred from the payment pattern.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

248

217

Total granted

$75M

$16M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+15%

Still filing today

79%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther

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

UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT
4× · 2021–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +96%
GP
GREATER PROVIDENCE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +24%
WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI
4× · 2020–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +23%

Funded once

Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospitalgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $943k · revenue +50%
The Miriam Hospitalgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $942k · revenue +26%
Rhode Island Hospital Foundation
one grant, 2023 · $700k · revenue +18%

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

Activities, outputs, outcomes

Most can say what their work is for. Few can show it changed. Click an area to step through it.

Of 53 organizations, 1 show a change. The rest report what they did, or only what they hope it’s for.

Click an area to read it, and step through its organizations.

Read from 53 of the 176 organizations you fund across these 5 areas— those you fund most heavily — in their own program-service reporting. Achievements are the organizations’ own.

case studies

Two relationships, up close

One you funded repeatedly and one you funded once, each traced through its own filings and the public record.

OASIS INTERNATIONAL

Conviction

Decade of trust, landmark facility delivered

Champlin supported Oasis International three times between 2020 and 2023, committing $428,500 at a moment when that funding represented as much as 73% of the organization's budget. Since the first grant, revenue has grown 424% and net assets have tripled — a trajectory that ran alongside the August 2024 ribbon-cutting of the African Center of Rhode Island at 600 Broad Street, the most visible capital milestone in the organization's three-decade history serving Providence's African immigrant community.

3× · 2020–2023

Funded

$429k

You committed

73%

Peak share of budget

+424%

Their revenue since

SHRI SERVICE CORPS

Funded once · graduated

One early bet, outsized compounding

A single $75,000 grant in 2021 — equal to 62% of Shri Service Corps' budget that year — marked Champlin's one moment of early partnership with this Providence-area yoga-outreach nonprofit. In the years that followed, revenue grew 122%, net assets expanded 11.1x, and the organization opened a 15,000-square-foot headquarters in Pawtucket's Conant Thread District in September 2023, now reaching 8,500+ students annually through teacher trainings and community wellness programming.

When you stepped in · 2021

$120k

their revenue

$75k= 62% of it

once

Latest filing · 2025

$267k+122%

grown on its own, no further grants

2024 · what they did next

Offered teacher trainings in yoga for underserved populations through urban outreach projects.

projects.propublica.org

Trajectories are each organization’s own subsequent IRS filings; milestones are from the public record, linked to source. Revenue is the organization’s whole income from every source, not a return on these grants: we date what happened after a grant, and do not claim the grant caused it.

04Your field

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.

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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Rhode Island Public Radio

To provide quality journalism and compelling storytelling that informs, educates, and inspirescommunity.

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Rhode Island Housing Development Corporation

Preservation of affordable housing in the state of rhode island

Housing & Shelter

Rhode Island Bankers Association Inc

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…

Public Benefit

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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Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council

Advancement of fiscally responsible government, competitive tax policies, and economic opportunities for all in rhode island by providing objective and nonpartisan research and analysis.

Public Benefit

Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council Inc

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…

Health

Rhode Island Health Care Assoc

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…

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Rhode Island League of Cities and Towns

To represent the interests of municipal officials and to provide them services which enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of city and town services through technical assistance, information sharing and training.

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Roger Williams Medical Center Fka Roger Williams Hospital

Roger williams medical center's mission is to provide healthcare services in providence, rhode island and surrounding communities.

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Day of Portugal and Portuguese Heritage in Ri Inc

To celabrate the day of portugal in the state of rhode island

Human Services

Rhode Island Marine Trade Association

Rimta's mission is to champion the rhode island marine industry through advocacy, education, environmental stewardship, innovation and promotion.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adoption Rhode Island and the most unlike its peers is Trinity United Methodist Church. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 38 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%4/377

the rest of the field

11%

519/4,852

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.

05the grantee network

346 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. 346 of the 531 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

339/346

Grantees still filing

242/346

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$33,489,424Human Services$13,004,085Health$12,840,640Education$8,937,497Arts & Culture$7,287,288Youth Development$4,356,277Community Improvement$2,564,682

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

35 internal · 5 shared anchors

Your portfolio is already a network

The Rhode Island Historical Society and Varnum Continentals collaborate to develop curriculum on the First Rhode Island Regiment and jointly curate exhibits on Rhode Island's Civil War and African American history. It’s one of 35 direct ties among 73 of your grantees, who also cluster around 5 shared regional anchors.

Ties are read from news and organization websites, so they’re directional, not exhaustive; each links to its source.

Grantees connected

Grantee↔grantee ties

Shared anchors (2+ grantees)

151

External links

Tap any organization to trace its collaborations — shared anchors pull toward the center

min. connectionstheme30 shown · 7 ties

grantee you fund external partner named by both stated inferred

Tap any organization in the graph to trace its collaborations — or start with the strongest ties below.

Strongest grantee↔grantee ties

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explicit Joint program
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explicit Shared facility
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explicit Joint program
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explicit Joint program
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explicit Joint program

Anchors several grantees share

2 grantees
2 grantees
2 grantees
2 grantees
2 grantees

Joint program 120Affiliation 31Referral network 11Coalition 9Shared facility 7Funding 7Merger / affiliation 1

Partnerships are LLM-extracted from news and organisation websites, not from tax filings — directional, not exhaustive. Each edge links to its source; corroborated edges were named independently by both organisations.

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.

The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI274.5× affinity254 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · The Beacon Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · Rhode Island Council for the Humanities · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island

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 Champlin 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

77report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Champlin Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Champlin 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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines