How much did WASHINGTON TRUST CO CHARITABLE FDN grant in FY2024?

Human Services$803kPhilanthropy$526kEducation$360kArts & Culture$353kCommunity Improvement$244kHealth$173kHousing & Shelter$99kFood & Nutrition$79kCivil Rights$26kOther$1.7M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

businesshousingurbanmuseumchambervalleyjonnycake

2019

sistersstoningtonvolunteershousingmuseumblackstoneriver

2020

smithmuseumscholarshipurban

2021

eastjonnycaketheatre

2022

narragansettgreenwichjonnycakevalleytheatremuseumriver

2023

narragansettchurchtownpawtucketpromisemuseumsaint anthony

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 121 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k96 grants · $218k
$10k–50k22 grants · $336k
$50k–250k3 grants · $161k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

United Way of Rhode Island Inc$61,000
Local Initiatives Support Corporation$50,000
San Miguel Education Center$50,000
Ocean Community YMCA$33,000
City of Central Falls$25,000
The Woonsocket Neighborhood Development$22,000
West Elmwood Housing Development$20,000
Pawtucket Central Falls Development$20,000
SWAP Stop Wasting Abandoned Properties$20,000
Olneyville Housing Corp$20,000
Olneyville Neighborhood Association$20,000
Rhode Island Community Food Bank$17,670
Always Learning Rhode Island$15,000
Rhode Island Business Development$13,575
Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island$10,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $800k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 8%. 21% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.6M · 151 repeat orgs$801k to everyone else

151 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2024, 84 since wound down; 54 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

151

133

Total granted

$3.6M

$510k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+52%

Still filing today

53%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $291k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther

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

Ocean Community YMCA
8× · 2017–2024 · $618k · revenue +19%
United Way of Rhode Island Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $500k · revenue +45%
Ocean Community United Theatre Inc
6× · 2019–2024 · $265k · revenue +222%

Funded once

SF
Station Fire Memorial Foundation
one grant, 2017 · $55k · revenue -94%
SR
St Raphael Academy
one grant, 2017 · $25k
PROVIDENCE COMMUNITY HEALTHgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +58%

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.

Preserve Rhode Island

To protect historic structures and unique places in ri for current and future generations.

Arts & Culture

Rhode Island Council for the Humanities

The rhode island council for the humanities seeds, supports, and strengthens public history, cultural heritage, civic education, and community engagement by and for all rhode islanders.

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Care Transformation Collaborative of Ri

To lead the transformation of primary care in rhode island in the context of an integrated health care system.

Health

Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless Inc

The coalition works collaboratively to create and advance lasting solutions to prevent and end homelessness in rhode island.

Housing & Shelter

Community Libraries of Providence

To operate a public library system in providence, ri. the organization was formed to operate nine neighborhood community libraries.

Education

Hospital Association of Rhode Island

To assist member hospitals in effectively serving the health care needs of rhode island, through advocacy, representation, education and services.

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Rhode Island Housing Development

Preservation of affordable housing in the state of rhode island

Housing & Shelter

Rhode Island Health Center Association

The rhode island health center association works to support, sustain, and strengthen community health centers so they can provide high-quality, patient-centered, integrated and equitable primary health care to their patients and…

Health

The Providence Eye

The Providence Eye is a nonprofit journalistic initiative devoted to informing and empowering the public about events and issues of concern to residents and visitors of Providence, RI, and environs.

Arts & Culture

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

Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council

Advancement of fiscally responsible government, competitive tax policies, and economic opportunities for all in rhode island by providing objective and nonpartison research and analysis.

Public Benefit

Rhode Island College Foundation

To receive support rhode island college's continued tradition of educational excellence.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Friend and Service and the most unlike its peers is Salve Regina University. 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.

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 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% 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 — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.5%1/185

the rest of the field

609/6,869

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.

05the grantee network

175 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

172/175

Grantees still filing

135/175

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,933,277Human Services$802,750Philanthropy$526,400Education$359,500Arts & Culture$352,500Community Improvement$243,575Health$173,250

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.

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 Community FoundationRI140.3× affinity89 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Champlin Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable · Amica Companies Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · The Beacon Foundation · The Nordson Corporation 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 organisation WASHINGTON TRUST CO CHARITABLE FDN 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

2rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Station Fire Memorial Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~32 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 9 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

9 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 562382562 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Station Fire Memorial Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 32 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn?

Find your warmest path to Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WASHINGTON TRUST CO CHARITABLE FDN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

175 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn?

More from the funding graph

WASHINGTON TRUST CO CHARITABLE FDN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

175 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn?

More from the funding graph