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The Norman and Rosalie Fain Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$1.7MPhilanthropy$947kArts & Culture$888kHousing & Shelter$795kEducation$735kEnvironment$584kFood & Nutrition$533kHuman Services$168kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $217k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $937k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GAIA VACCINE FOUNDATION$30,000
RI PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA AND MUSIC$30,000
COMMUNITY MUSIC WORKS$30,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $5k → 8%Pine Street Inn: $2k → 16%Warrior Expeditions: $5k → 8%Warrior Expeditions: $5k → 8%Community Servings: $3k → 16%WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $5k → 8%ROGER WILLIAMS PARK CONSERVANCY: $10k → 14%OPENDOORS: $20k → 14%Jewish Collaborative Services: $10k → 14%JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES: $10k → 14%JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES: $10k → 14%Jewish Collaborative Services: $10k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $250k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $250k → 14%JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RI: $110k → 14%JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RI: $110k → 14%Jewish Alliance of Greater RI: $110k → 14%JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RI: $110k → 14%Jewish Alliance of Greater RI: $110k → 14%JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RI: $20k → 14%JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RI: $17k → 14%JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RI: $15k → 14%JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RI: $15k → 14%Jewish Alliance of Greater RI: $15k → 14%Jewish Alliance of Greater RI: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
UT
VA
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of The Norman and Rosalie Fain Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in RI; by stated purpose, 83%.

The Norman and Rosalie Fain Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.9M · 37 repeat orgs$875k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
36

Total granted

$5.9M
$839k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+31%

Still filing today

78%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsEducationFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • JA
    JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $647k · revenue +23%
  • SAVE THE BAY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $542k · revenue +16%
  • BH
    BUTLER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $425k · revenue +152% · 94% of their budget

Funded once

  • PP
    Planned Parenthood of Southern New England
    one grant, 2020 · $125k
  • RHODE ISLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +47%
  • PP
    PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +29%
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
United Way of Rhode Island Inc

United way's mission is uniting our community and resources to build racial equity and opportunities for all rhode islanders.

Philanthropy
2
The Rhode Island Public Health Foundation

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…

Health
3
Preserve Rhode Island

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment
5
Hospital Association of Rhode Island

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…

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6
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
7
Brighton Marine Inc

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.

Health
8
Food & Water Watch

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…

Food & Nutrition
9
Hopehealth

Our purpose is to offer our skills and hearts to help patients and families live each day with hope and dignity.

Human Services
10
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
11
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
12
Rhode Island Food Policy Council

Promoting a more equitable, economically vibrant, and environmentally sustainable food system in rhode island.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roger Williams Park Conservancy Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 77 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
47/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RI Community Food Bank: $450,000 · OtherRI Community Food BankWOMEN INFANTS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $333,334 · OtherWOMEN INFANTS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SNE: $250,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SNEJEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL: $225,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOLAMOS HOUSE: $200,000 · OtherAMOS HOUSEPlanned Parenthood of Southern New England: $125,000 · OtherRI Philharmonic Orchestra and Music: $120,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $160,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCRHODE ISLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $125,000 · Other+33 more: $634,600 · Other+33 moreJEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND: $646,667 · Human ServicesJEWISH ALLIANCE OF …CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $500,000 · Human ServicesCROSSROADS RHODE IS…+6 more: $94,500 · Human Services+6 moreCOMMUNITY MUSICWORKS: $340,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MU…SANDRA FEINSTEIN-GAMM THEATRE: $225,000 · Arts & CultureSANDRA FEINS…PROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $134,900 · Arts & CulturePROVIDENCE C…GROW SMART RHODE ISLAND: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $60,500 · Arts & Culture+5 moreBUTLER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $425,000 · PhilanthropyBUTLER HOSP…THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $300,000 · PhilanthropyTHE RHODE I…+1 more: $3,000 · PhilanthropyThe Miriam Hospital Foundation: $384,419 · HealthThe Miria…GAIA VACCINE FOUNDATION: $150,000 · HealthGAIA VACC…SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $20,000 · Health+4 more: $30,000 · HealthSAVE THE BAY INC: $542,200 · Environment+2 more: $18,400 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $315,600 · EducationPROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $100,000 · EducationTHE WHEELER SCHOOL: $25,500 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · Education
Other$2,722,934Human Services$1,241,167Arts & Culture$790,400Philanthropy$728,000Health$584,419Environment$560,600Education$451,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND: $646,667 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetSAVE THE BAY INC: $542,200 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $500,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBUTLER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $425,000 over 4y, 94% of budgetThe Miriam Hospital Foundation: $384,419 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSICWORKS: $340,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $315,600 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSANDRA FEINSTEIN-GAMM THEATRE: $225,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetAMOS HOUSE: $200,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGAIA VACCINE FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetPROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $134,900 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetRHODE ISLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $125,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF ATHENS INC: $80,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEDESIA INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGROW SMART RHODE ISLAND: $30,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSOJOURNER HOUSE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WHEELER SCHOOL: $25,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOPEHEALTH VISITING NURSE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSweet Olive Farm Animal Rescue Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY STRING PROJECT INC: $23,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetOPENDOORS: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $20,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEEDHAM COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $15,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGirls on the Run Rhode Island: $11,500 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetFLAMINGO GARDENS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROGER WILLIAMS PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BIGGER VISION OF ATHENS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetATHENS AREA DIAPER BANK INC: $5,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NUCI PHILLIPS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTER SEVEN FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOUR RESCUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • 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 RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HOPEHEALTH VISITING NURSE ↗
  • Who funds Sweet Olive Farm Animal Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY STRING PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds OPENDOORS ↗
  • Who funds WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Rhode Island Comm…United Way of Rhode I…The Champlin Foundati…June Rockwell Levy Fo…Amica Companies Found…Washington Trust Co C…Ralph R Papitto & Bar…Citizens Charitable F…The Pearle W & Martin…Billy Andrade-Brad Fa…Ida Ballou Littlefiel…The Nordson Corporati…
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI43.1× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Norman and Rosalie Fain Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Norman and Rosalie Fain Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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