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The Russell a Boss 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LINCOLN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ST PETER'S BY THE SEA | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| SOUTH COUNTY HEALTH | $2,000 |
| SAVE THE BAY | $1,000 |
| RHODE ISLANDERS SPONSORING EDUCATION | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of your 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 +47% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
SAVE THE BAY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $5k · revenue +47%
Rhode Island Hospital Foundation2× · 2021–2023 · $5k · revenue +11%- RIRhode Islanders Sponsoring Education3× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF RIone grant, 2021 · $5k
WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RIone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +20%- OSOCEAN STATE MEDIA GROUPone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +11%
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.
NHF supports, encourages and coordinates the development of comprehensive, integrated health care-related services for the advancement and well-being of the community, in furtherance of the purposes of Newport Hospital (see Schedule O)
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…
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…
Care new england is devoted to continually improving the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve. please refer to schedule o for the organization's community benefit statement.
The mission of women & infants corporation is to support the women & infants hospital of rhode island; a related internal revenue code section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, and affiliates. the hospital, a teaching hospital of the…
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 mission of the foundation is to raise funds to support island health and its commitment to community health in and around anacortes, washington.
As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, RIH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.
The mission of women & infants development foundation is to serve the healthcare needs of our region through women & infants hospital of rhode island; a related internal revenue code section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, by…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
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…
To provide treatment of psychiatric illness in an atmosphere of dignity and respect and to contribute knowledge through education and research while continuously improving the ways the hospital services its patients and the community.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rhode Island Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Billy Andrade-Brad Faxon Charities for Children Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 13 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 LINCOLN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education ↗
- Who funds WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI ↗
- Who funds BILLY ANDRADE-BRAD FAXON CHARITIES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN STATE MEDIA GROUP ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED ↗
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: Warren Alpert Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Russell a Boss 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.
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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