· Private foundation
The Cianci Educational Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| VINCENT HEALEY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cianci Educational Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cianci Educational Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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