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The de Ramel Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $163k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF RI | $300,000 |
| HERITAGE FLIGHT FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| BIKE NEWPORT | $50,258 |
| PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY | $36,500 |
| IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES | $26,036 |
| MILTON ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,666 |
| MLK CENTER | $10,000 |
| HUMANUS DOCUMENTARY FILMS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF JAMESTOWN HOUSING | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ISLAND CEMETERY | $10,000 |
| HILLSIDE CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION | $5,000 |
| LIME ROCK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 15 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- TCTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE7× · 2017–2023 · $409k · revenue +27%
MILTON ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $300k · revenue +12%- NCNORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $166k · revenue +108%
Funded once
- BCBOYS CLUBS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWPORTone grant, 2019 · $250k
- RARECREATION AIR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $100k
- TFTUNISON FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue -74%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The new england aquarium is a catalyst for global change through public engagement and education, commitment to marine animal conservation, innovative scientific research, and effective advocacy for a vital and vibrant ocean.
The nantucket historical association preserves and interprets the history of nantucket through its programs, collections, and properties, in order to promote the island's significance and foster an appreciation of it among all audiences.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Rimta's mission is to champion the rhode island marine industry through advocacy, education, environmental stewardship, innovation and promotion.
The northeastern regional association of coastal and ocean observing systems' (neracoos) mission is to produce, integrate and communicate high- quality information that helps ensure safety, economic and environmental resilience, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Watchdogri Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
73 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. 73 of the 119 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 THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BIKE NEWPORT ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BELMONT CHAPEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TUNISON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Newport Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AQUIDNECK COMMUNITY TABLE ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAEL'S COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN TRAINER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINFILM ↗
- Who funds LIME ROCK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT ART HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PRESERVE RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FLIGHT EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH ↗
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: Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Ejmp Fund for Philanthropy · Bazarsky Family Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Gruben Charitable Foundation · Brauchler-Collins Charitable Foundation · Newportfed Charitable Foundation · Alletta Morris McBean Charitable 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 de Ramel 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Tunison Foundation Inc — 74% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Mvyradio Inc — 1% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 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.
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