· Private foundation
The Cianci Educational Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEDERAL HILL COMMERCE ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| WATER FIRE PROVIDENCE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| VINCENT HEALEY | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 86% of your 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.
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 +56% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FHFEDERAL HILL COMMERCE ASSOCIATION6× · 2018–2025 · $49k · revenue +990%
PROVIDENCE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER3× · 2019–2023 · $15k · revenue +56%
GLORIA GEMMA BREAST CANCER RESOURCE FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $12k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- MVMAYOR VINCENT A CIANCI JR LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTER INCone grant, 2018 · $17k
- FHFEDERAL HILL COMMERCE ASSCOCIATION INC CO D'AMICO BURCHFIELDone grant, 2019 · $7k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $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.
To celabrate the day of portugal in the state of rhode island
Preservation of maxwell house, the oldest brick dwelling in warren, ri, and preservation of the history of warren, ri.
To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.
The newport art museum's mission is to share a diversity of art and experiences that spark reflection, inspiration, and connection within our newport community and beyond. the museum was founded in 1912 on the belief that arts and culture…
To obtain donations through fundraising for the purposes of providing services and research for victims and their families impacted by ovarian cancer & other related illnesses.
The rhode island historical society, through its collections, museums, and educational initiatives, welcomes everyone to engage with rhode island's complex and significant past.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
To collect, preserve, and maintain historical data in a museum setting; memorializing the ri state police as an educational resource for the public
The preservation of the Wentworth-Gardner historic house and warehouse which is located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The Wentworth-Gardner historic house is a classic example of Georgian architecture from the 1700s and is listed on the…
Women & infants hospital of rhode island, a teaching hospital of the warren alpert school of medicine at brown university, is committed to improving the health and well being of women and infants and to providing essential services…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence Performing Arts Center and the most unlike its peers is Mayor Vincent a Cianci Jr Library and Research Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 55 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 FEDERAL HILL COMMERCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MAYOR VINCENT A CIANCI JR LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds GLORIA GEMMA BREAST CANCER RESOURCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATERFIRE PROVIDENCE ↗
- Who funds Women & Infants Corporation ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Hospital ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY SCHOOL OF DRAMATIC ARTS ↗
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.
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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 Cianci Educational 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.
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.
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