· Private foundation
The Tilley Charitable 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT ELIZABETH COMMUNITY | $75,000 |
| OPERATION STAND DOWN RI | $10,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF WARWICK | $10,000 |
| CHILDRENS WISH GROUP OF RI | $10,000 |
| THE ROTARY FOUNDATION - WARWICK DAF | $10,000 |
| NORTH KINGSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC | $10,000 |
| HOUSE OF HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $5,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND LEGAL SERVICES | $5,000 |
| RI SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 90% of its 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 +56% since the first grant, against +54% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 5 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE SAINT ELIZABETH COMMUNITY5× · 2020–2024 · $335k · revenue +300%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $51k · revenue +47%- BIBRIDGEMARK INC3× · 2020–2022 · $29k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- VIVOWS INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +6%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW ENGLANone grant, 2021 · $5k
- AWA WISH COME TRUE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +54%
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.
To provide with dignity, emergency food and outreach to thousands of at-risk neighbors in southern rhode island and surrounding communities.
Rosemarys wish kids, inc. grants wishes to children and young adults age 3 thru 21 who medically qualify with a life-threatening illness living in rhode island and areas of southeastern mass.
The rhode island dream center provides hope and holistic support to the impoverished in the greater rhode island area through food, clothing and services.
Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council's mission is to promote changes wthin communities in Rhode Island that encourages, inspires and makes possible for individuals with disabilities to create, pursue and achieve lives that are…
To operate a licensed home health agency, providing home care and elder care services to rhode island residents.
Christian mission to the poor providing food, shelter clothing and counseling to the homeless
To assist rhode islanders with differing abilities in their efforts to achieve full inclusion in society and to exercise their civil and human rights through the provision of legal advocacy.
To provide workers compensation benefits to the employees of saint elizabeth home, east greenwich, st. elizabeth apartments for seniors and mobility impaired, st. elizabeth assisted living, l.p., and st. elizabeth apartments for seniors.
Preservation of affordable housing in the state of rhode island
The purpose of the ricadv is to eliminate domestic violence in rhode island our mission is to support and enhance the work of our member agencies and to provide leadership on the issue of domestic violence.
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 mission of NAMI Rhode Island is to educate the public about mental illness; to offer resources and support to all whose lives are touched by mental illness; to advocate at every level to ensure the rights and dignity of those with…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 18 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 THE SAINT ELIZABETH COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEMARK INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH KINGSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S WISH GROUP OF RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH BUFFUM CHACE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds VOWS INC ↗
- Who funds A WISH COME TRUE 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 · Amica Companies Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Tilley Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tilley Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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