Rhode Island · Private foundation
The Cianci Educational Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $24k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 88%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $146k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 88% of the organizations The Cianci Educational Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $24k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $24k | 88% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $15k | 71% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $22k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $23k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $24k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $29k | 73% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $46k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Hill Commerce Association | $48,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Mayor Vincent a Cianci Jr Library and Research Center Inc | $16,948 | 1 | n/a |
| Providence Performing Arts Center | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation | $11,580 | 3 | 1% |
| Waterfire Providence | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Women & Infants Corporation | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rhode Island Hospital | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| New Jersey School of Dramatic Arts | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($98k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Cianci Educational Foundation
- How much does The Cianci Educational Foundation give?
- The Cianci Educational Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $24,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Cianci Educational Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (51%), Community Improvement (27%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are The Cianci Educational Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Federal Hill Commerce Association ($49k), Mayor Vincent a Cianci Jr Library and Research Center Inc ($17k), Providence Performing Arts Center ($15k).
- Does The Cianci Educational Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Cianci Educational Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Cianci Educational Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Cianci Educational Foundation based?
- The Cianci Educational Foundation is based in RI.
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