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The Pearle W & Martin M Silverstein 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GAMM THEATRE | $6,500 |
| CITY YEAR PROVIDENCE | $5,000 |
| TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY | $5,000 |
| JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RI | $4,800 |
| UNITED WAY RHODE ISLAND | $2,500 |
| THE WILBURY THEATRE GROUP | $2,500 |
| RHODE ISLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION | $1,500 |
| MIXED MAGIC THEATER | $1,000 |
| PROVIDENCE PROMISE | $1,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH-EL | $750 |
| RHODE ISLANDER SPONSORING EDUCATION | $250 |
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 (FY21–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +50% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 20 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
INSPIRING MINDS3× · 2021–2023 · $25k · revenue +75%- JAJEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND4× · 2021–2024 · $23k · revenue +19%
SANDRA FEINSTEIN-GAMM THEATRE3× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- JAJEWISH ALLIANCE GREATER RHODE ISLANDone grant, 2019 · $3k
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Incone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -9%
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +86%
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.
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
The only law school in Rhode Island, Roger Williams University School of Law offers future attorneys a rigorous, hands-on legal education in a supportive, personalized environment. Preparing students for success in the public and private…
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…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
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…
The university of rhode island alumni association informs and engages current and future alumni as committed partners of the university, its missions and traditions.
The rhode island bankers association will serve as the sole rhode island based organization serving the banking industry and will advocate for its member institutions and participate alongside other new england banking industry…
The Latino Policy Institute works to stimulate public policy discourse by examining and communicating the evolving experiences of the Latino community in Rhode Island. LPI is committed to educating, activating, and motivating community…
To provide quality journalism and compelling storytelling that informs, educates, and inspirescommunity.
Advancement of fiscally responsible government, competitive tax policies, and economic opportunities for all in rhode island by providing objective and nonpartisan research and analysis.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Trinity academy for the performing arts utilizes an interdisciplinary arts-integrated program to prepare our artist-scholars for collegiate and professional success.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rhode Island Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Rochambeau Library 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 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 56 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 NONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds INSPIRING MINDS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds SANDRA FEINSTEIN-GAMM THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Trinity Repertory Company ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Community Libraries of Providence ↗
- Who funds The Wilbury Theatre Group ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND CENTER FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PROMISE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ROCHAMBEAU LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ATHENAEUM ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE VISIONS ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Project Kesher ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS ↗
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- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Miriam Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAMA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS 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 Champlin Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Gertrude N & Seebert J Goldowsky Foundation · Ira S& Anna Galkin Charitable Tr · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Norman and Rosalie Fain Family Foundation · Frederick C Tanner Memorial Fund · Ress Family 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 Pearle W & Martin M Silverstein 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% 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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