· Private foundation
The Norman and Rosalie Fain Family 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $217k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $937k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND | $250,000 |
| WOMEN INFANTS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $166,667 |
| BUTLER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RI | $110,000 |
| MIRIAM HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $99,419 |
| SAVE THE BAY | $86,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| SAVE THE BAY | $64,000 |
| COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $56,400 |
| RI COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $55,000 |
| COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| GAMM THEATRE | $50,000 |
| RI PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA AND MUSIC | $30,000 |
| SOJOURNER HOUSE | $30,000 |
| GAIA VACCINE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of The Norman and Rosalie Fain Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in RI; read by stated purpose it is 83% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- JAJEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND5× · 2020–2024 · $647k · revenue +23%
SAVE THE BAY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $542k · revenue +16%- BHBUTLER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $425k · revenue +268% · 94% of their budget
Funded once
RHODE ISLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +47%- PPPlanned Parenthood of Southern New Englandone grant, 2020 · $125k
- PPPROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +29%
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.
United way's mission is uniting our community and resources to build racial equity and opportunities for all rhode islanders.
The organization's mission is to eliminate health disparities in rhode island and beyond. the organization develops innovative public health programs, conducts translational and policy research, provides clinical services, and trains…
Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
To be a proactive advocate for the hospitals in rhode island that is capable of working for and with the hospitals to positively influence public opinion, legislative outcomes and regulatory policy. the purpose of such advocacy is to…
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…
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Our purpose is to offer our skills and hearts to help patients and families live each day with hope and dignity.
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…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Promoting a more equitable, economically vibrant, and environmentally sustainable food system in rhode island.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roger Williams Park Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Athens Area Diaper Bank 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 30 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 77 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 JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds BUTLER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Miriam Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANDRA FEINSTEIN-GAMM THEATRE ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds GAIA VACCINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF ATHENS INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDESIA INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GROW SMART RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WHEELER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Sweet Olive Farm Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOPEHEALTH VISITING NURSE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY STRING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
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 · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Champlin Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Amica Companies Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Pearle W & Martin M Silverstein Foundation · Billy Andrade-Brad Faxon Charities for Children Inc · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · The Nordson Corporation Foundation
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 Norman and Rosalie Fain Family 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.
- Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Needham Community Council Inc — 2% 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.