· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CENTRAL FALLS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST EDWARD FOOD & WELLNESS CENTER | $10,000 |
| RI RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FUND | $10,000 |
| REFOCUS INC | $10,000 |
| SISTERS OF MERCY | $10,000 |
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 (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 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 +22% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- JAJOHN AND PAT TARANTINO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k
- WAWOMENS AND INFANTS HOSTITALone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 50 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.
- 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 ST MARY'S HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL FALLS CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEBRIDGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BUTTON HOLE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Papitto Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Papitto Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Ave Maria University Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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