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The Papitto 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $104k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $737k
- $250k+3 grants · $950k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $400,000 |
| READ TO SUCCEED | $300,000 |
| SOPHIA ACADEMY | $250,000 |
| SAINT MARY ACADEMY BAY VIEW | $206,985 |
| SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL | $205,000 |
| ST ANDREWS SCHOOL | $143,300 |
| SCALABRINI DUKCEVICH CENTER | $127,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES APPEAL | $55,000 |
| HOLY APOSTLES CHURCH | $29,050 |
| UNITED WAY | $25,000 |
| RI RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FUND | $10,000 |
| SISTERS OF MERCY | $10,000 |
| ST EDWARD FOOD & WELLNESS CENTER | $10,000 |
| REFOCUS INC | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL FALLS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 15 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- BUBRYANT UNIVERSITY4× · 2018–2022 · $2.1M · revenue +22%
COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +149%- RTREAD TO SUCCEED INC6× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +107% · 74% of their budget
Funded once
- RRIDEone grant, 2021 · $100k
- WAWOMENS AND INFANTS HOSTITALone grant, 2023 · $50k
- JAJOHN AND PAT TARANTINO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
A private school providing an exceptional college preparatory program with a specialty in learning disabilities.
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
Rippowam Cisqua School creates independent thinkers, confident communicators, and engaged leaders who respect and contribute meaningfully to a diverse and increasingly complex global society.
Founded in 1832, st. timothy's school is a college preparatory boarding and day school, preparing girls to assume positions of leadership with moral focus and courage, intellectual honesty and acumen, and the confidence to act responsibly…
The french american school of rhode islands (fasri) multilingual experience cultivates globally-minded, confident, creative learners.
Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…
To inspire each child to achieve personal and academic excellence and to become a caring and ethical contributor to society.
To nurture a diverse community in the episcopal tradition, fostering spiritual growth, moral responsibility and academic excellence, and artistic and athletic pursuits, while preparing for a life of service to our community and the world.
To educate students in a culture of care, respect, love, and service. each child is known, challenged, understood, & empowered to strive for the highest. st. andrew's schools offers a personalized curriculum that inspires students to learn…
Suffield Academy is a coeducational independent secondary school serving a diverse student body of day and boarding students from across the United States and from many foreign counties. The school is grounded in a tradition of academic…
The mission of pvd prep is to prepare a diverse group of providence middle school students for college preparatory high schools.
We inspire students to lead ethical and productive lives through a college preparatory program that promotes the pursuit of academic and personal excellence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Mary's Home for Children and the most unlike its peers is Central Falls Children Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 20. 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 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.
22 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. 22 of the 50 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 BRYANT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds READ TO SUCCEED INC ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds REFOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds ST EDWARDS FOOD AND WELLNESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE ALZHEIMER'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds MCAULEY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL FALLS CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEBRIDGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BUTTON HOLE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
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 · Amica Companies Foundation · Frederick C Tanner Memorial Fund · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Kilmartin Charitable Corporation · The Picerne Family Charitable 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 Papitto 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.
- Ave Maria University Inc — 0% 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.
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