· Private foundation
Donald P and Elaine M Hayden Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $245k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Rhode Island Foundation and Alumni Engagement | $250,000 |
| Roger Williams University | $250,000 |
| Community Prepatory School | $25,000 |
| Providence Animal Care and Control Center | $24,550 |
| Scruffy Paws Animal Rescue | $24,550 |
| Paws Watch | $24,550 |
| Friends of Scituate Animal Shelter | $24,550 |
| San Miguel Education Center | $20,000 |
| Pet Refuge North Kingstown Exeter Animal Protection | $16,800 |
| Stand Up for Animal Inc | $15,000 |
| West Place Animal Sanctuary | $15,000 |
| Rhode Island SPCA | $15,000 |
| Providence Promise | $10,000 |
| Friends North Smithfield Animal Shelter | $10,000 |
| Saint Teresa School | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 27% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $732k 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
- FOFriends of Scituate Animal Shelter4× · 2021–2024 · $32k
- RLRI LIONS SIGHT FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $10k
- FOFRIENDS OF N SMITHFIELD ANIMAL SHL3× · 2021–2023 · $8k
Funded once
ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +1%
UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENTgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +185%
COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +95%
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.
Education and information sharing for veterinarians and the general public through newsletters, seminars and conventions as well as rabies clinics
Companion animal welfare society inc. supports the rhode island pet owning community by providing high quality veterinary care to economically challenged individuals and families.
The ocean state animal coalition (osac) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the status and well-being of animals in rhode island.
Provide high quality, low-cost veterinary care to the pets of low-income RI residents.
The mission of friends of animals in need is to assist in providing veterinary care to financially challenged companion pet owners throughout the state of rhode island, in order to avoid the surrender, abandonment or the euthanizing of…
Animal rescue rhode island (arri) is dedicated to rescuing companion animals in need and to the humane welfare of homeless animals.
To provide shelter and placement of homeless dogs and cats.
The only law school in Rhode Island, Roger Williams University School of Law offers future attorneys a rigorous, hands-on legal education in a supportive, personalized environment. Preparing students for success in the public and private…
To take in, care for, and adopt out unwanted or abandoned domestic animals.
To provide low cost/no cost sterilization, surgeries and medicines for free roaming cats, and pet cats owned by low-income families.
Rochester hope for pets' mission is threefold: improving the quality of life for rochester area companion animals by providing grants for veterinary care to pets whose owners are in times of need; assisting veterinary health teams with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is Scruffy Paws Animal Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 20 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 ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PAWSWATCH ↗
- Who funds SCRUFFY PAWS ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds STAND UP FOR ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ↗
- Who funds WEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PROMISE ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND LIONS SIGHT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIVMA COMPANION ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Donald P and Elaine M Hayden 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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