· Private foundation
The Ninigret Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 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 FY2021–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE COLONIAL THEATER | $8,000 |
| COLONIAL THEATRE SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| OGA VETS | $2,000 |
| OPEN THE BOOKS FOR AMERICAN TRANSPA | $1,000 |
| LOYALTY SOCIETY OF GEORGETOWN | $1,000 |
| THE WATCH HILL CONSERVATORY | $900 |
| WESTERLY LIBRARY | $750 |
| WESTERLY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $750 |
| ST JUDE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $750 |
| EAST BEACH ASSN | $500 |
| VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP | $500 |
| HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION | $500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS | $500 |
| SALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY | $500 |
| WESTOVER SCHOOL | $500 |
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 (FY25–25, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those 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.
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 +12% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2026, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- PVPROJECT VERITAS2× · 2022–2023 · $11k · revenue +158%
- WSWESTOVER SCHOOL INC3× · 2024–2026 · $6k · revenue +12%
VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC4× · 2022–2026 · $4k · revenue +4%
Funded once
THE OCEAN COMMUNITY UNITED THEATRE INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +4%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
- RFROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTSgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $2k · revenue +33%
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.
The westport library was established for the purpose of maintaining a public library in the town of westport, connecticut. the library is committed to empowering the individual and strengthening the community through dynamic interaction…
Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
West Windsor Arts cultivates the artist within us all, while inspiring a creative community that is engaged, inclusive and equitable.
Utah Humanities collaborates with libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and cultural and civic groups; provides capacity-building opportunities for volunteers and professionals in the cultural sector; presents…
Presentation and production of the arts in waterville, maine
Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
To stimulate and support economic and housing development within the communities of the city of waterbury.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Ocean Community United Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Colonial Theatre School 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 41 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 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% 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.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 60 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 PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds WESTOVER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE OCEAN COMMUNITY UNITED THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds OGA VETSINC ↗
- Who funds VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE WATCH HILL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The Colonial Theatre School Inc ↗
- Who funds ROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Salt Marsh Opera Company ↗
- Who funds East Beach Association ↗
- Who funds SALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERLY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds The Chorus of Westerly Inc ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Literacy Volunteers of Washington County ↗
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 · AM Roberts Charitable Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Royce Family Fund Inc · Chelsea Groton Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Forrest C & Frances H Lattner Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Newportfed Charitable Foundation · Lynch Family Foundation · The Andrew and Carol Parsons Family · The Peter and Deborah Lamm Foundation R Bradford Malt Et Al Trustees
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 Ninigret Foundation Inc 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.