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Uw Urania C Sherburne

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$38k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Human Services$49kFood & Nutrition$44kHealth$22kHousing & Shelter$20kCrime & Legal$16kYouth Development$16kRecreation & Sports$8kReligion$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$663k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETTER LIVES RHODE ISLAND$4,000
JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES$3,000
RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$2,500
NORTH KINGSTOWN FOOD PANTRY$2,500
MCAULEY CORPORATION$2,500
CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND$2,500
GOOD NEIGHBORS$2,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PROVIDENCE$2,000
RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC$2,000
JOHNNYCAKE CENTER OF PEACE DALE$2,000
DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RI$2,000
DAY ONE$1,500
MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CTR$1,500
JOHN CLARKE RETIREMENT CENTER$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%WASHINGTON PARK CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: $2k → 14%WASHINGTON PARK CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: $2k → 14%WASHINGTON PARK CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: $2k → 14%WASHINGTON PARK CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: $2k → 14%JAMES L MAHER CENTER: $2k → 7%WASHINGTON PARK CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: $2k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $4k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $4k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $2k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $2k → 14%CLOTHES TO KIDS RI: $2k → 14%FEDERAL HILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES: $3k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND: $2k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $3k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $3k → 14%134 COLLABORATIVE: $2k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $2k → 14%CHILDRENS FRIEND AND SERVICE: $2k → 14%134 COLLABORATIVE: $2k → 14%134 COLLABORATIVE: $2k → 14%CHILDRENS FRIEND AND SERVICE: $2k → 14%CHILDRENS FRIEND AND SERVICE: $2k → 14%CHILDRENS FRIEND AND SERVICE: $1k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $1k → 14%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION: $2k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $1k → 14%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION: $1k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $1k → 14%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION: $1k → 14%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$155k · 24 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
21

Total granted

$155k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+23%

Still filing today

83%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionHealthEmploymentYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • GOOD NEIGHBORS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $11k · revenue +106%
  • BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE
    4× · 2021–2025 · $11k · revenue +14%
  • CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS PF PROVIDENCE
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • GN
    GOOD NEIGHBORS SOUP KITCHEN
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Rhode Island Police Chiefs Association Inc

Ri chiefs of police gather to share information on new or proposed state laws and maintaining best methods for state's citizens' protection

Community Improvement
2
Ri Center Assisting Those in Need

To provide with dignity, emergency food and outreach to thousands of at-risk neighbors in southern rhode island and surrounding communities.

Human Services
3
Jamaican Association of Rhode Island
Arts & Culture
4
Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council Inc

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…

Health
5
Rhode Island Rescue Ministries

Christian mission to the poor providing food, shelter clothing and counseling to the homeless

Human Services
6
Rhode Island Kids Count Inc

Rhode island kids count, inc. is a not-for-profit corporation. the organization is a children's policy and advocacy organization that provides information on child well-being, stimulates dialogue on children's issues, and promotes…

Youth Development
7
Disability Rights Rhode Island

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.

Civil Rights
8
Westbay Community Action Inc

To organize, plan and provide social services to low income and elderly individuals.

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9
Rhode Island Food Policy Council

Promoting a more equitable, economically vibrant, and environmentally sustainable food system in rhode island.

Food & Nutrition
10
Rhode Island Housing Development Corporation

Preservation of affordable housing in the state of rhode island

Housing & Shelter
11
Rhode Island Health Care Assoc

The mission of rhode island health care association is to enhance its members' ability to provide sustainable quality health care and quality of life to the residents of rhode island's skilled nursing facilities.as a state affiliate of the…

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12
Rhode Island Dream Center

The rhode island dream center provides hope and holistic support to the impoverished in the greater rhode island area through food, clothing and services.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rhode Island Community Food Bank Association and the most unlike its peers is Camp Ruggles 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealthcare System SupportK-12 Schools and Early Educ…Food and Basic Needs Assist…Providence Cultural & Civic…Healthcare Systems and Netw…Classical Music & Performin…Newport Community Heritage
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 47 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr13%6%5–10yr18%8%10–20yr18%11%20–35yr14%44%35–55yr18%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr13%3%5–10yr18%2%10–20yr18%10%20–35yr14%49%35–55yr18%35%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
11%
448/4,261

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.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 52 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
19/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JOHNNYCAKE CENTER OF PEACE DALE — $9,500 · OtherJOHNNYCAKE CENTER OF PEACE DALEDAY ONE — $9,500 · OtherDAY ONEBETTER LIVES RHODE ISLAND aka PROVIDENCE — $9,000 · OtherBETTER LIVES RHODE ISLAND aka PROVIDENCEMCAULEY CORPORATION — $9,000 · OtherMCAULEY CORPORATIONBETTER LIVES RHODE ISLAND — $8,500 · OtherBETTER LIVES RHODE ISLANDSOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS — $6,500 · OtherSOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERSHOUSE OF HOPE COMMUNITY — $4,500 · OtherNORTH KINGSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC — $4,500 · OtherFAMILY SERVICES OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $4,000 · Other+23 more — $41,000 · Other+23 moreGOOD NEIGHBORS INC — $11,000 · Human ServicesGOOD NEIGHBORS INCCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND — $10,000 · Human ServicesCROSSROADS RHODE ISLANDWASHINGTON PARK CITIZENS ASSOCIATION INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON PARK CITIZENS ASSOC…CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE — $6,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE134 Collaborative — $5,000 · Human Services134 CollaborativeCOMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesCOMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION…JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES — $3,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICESCLOTHES TO KIDS RI INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesJAMES L MAHER CENTER — $2,000 · Human Services+2 more — $2,500 · Human ServicesRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — $9,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF RI INC — $5,500 · Food & NutritionBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE — $10,500 · Youth DevelopmentMARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED — $3,500 · Recreation & SportsLittle Compton Community Center Corporation — $1,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP RUGGLES INC — $1,000 · Recreation & SportsLUCY'S HEARTH — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC INC — $4,000 · HealthCOMMUNITIES FOR PEOPLE INC — $1,000 · Health
Other$106,000Human Services$53,500Food & Nutrition$14,500Youth Development$10,500Recreation & Sports$5,500Housing & Shelter$5,000Health$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGOOD NEIGHBORS INC — $11,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE — $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND — $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDAY ONE — $9,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMCAULEY CORPORATION — $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBETTER LIVES RHODE ISLAND — $8,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWASHINGTON PARK CITIZENS ASSOCIATION INC — $8,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS — $6,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF RI INC — $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLUCY'S HEARTH — $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budget134 Collaborative — $5,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNORTH KINGSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVisiting Nurse Services of Newport and Bristol Counties Inc — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN CLARKE RETIREMENT CENTER — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLOTHES TO KIDS RI INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJAMES L MAHER CENTER — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOJOURNER HOUSE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING AROUND MINISTRIES INC TURNING AROUND MINISTRIES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR PEOPLE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP RUGGLES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFEDERAL HILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAE ORGANIZATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

The Rhode Island Comm…The Champlin Foundati…United Way of Rhode I…Harry M Miriam C Will…Ida Ballou Littlefiel…Washington Trust Co C…June Rockwell Levy Fo…Banknewport Charitabl…Centreville Savings B…Citizens Charitable F…Amica Companies Found…Rhode Island Communit…
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI66.7× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Harry M Miriam C Will C Horton F · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Rhode Island Community Food Bank Association

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 Uw Urania C Sherburne 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 43%
  • Communities for People Inc — 43% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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