· Private foundation
The George and Anne Grzebien Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k7 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RI COLLEGE-MARY ELLEN BURKE SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $15,000 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $11,030 |
| TOCKWOTTEN ON THE WATERFRONT | $5,000 |
| TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY | $5,000 |
| RI FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE CARE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $1,000 |
| CROSSROADS | $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.
Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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 +44% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION3× · 2020–2022 · $26k · revenue +18%
Trinity Repertory Company3× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +44%- TOTOCKWOTTEN ON THE WATERFRONT3× · 2020–2022 · $15k
Funded once
- RCRI COLLEGE-MARY ELLEN BURKE SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2022 · $15k
- OSOPERATION SMILE INCone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +10%
JEANNE JUGAN RESIDENCE OF THE LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -3%
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.
4 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. 4 of the 9 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The George and Anne Grzebien Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The George and Anne Grzebien Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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