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Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$832k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
138
Grants FY2025
120
Organizations funded FY2024
40%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$61,000
Organizations funded a year
76 to 120
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $213k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving135$761k33%
FY2024120$654k40%
FY2023105$604k34%
FY202285$508k24%
FY202176$421k25%
FY202078$380k27%
FY2019100$430k40%
FY201893$327k46%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$963kEducation$913kPhilanthropy$728kArts & Culture$471kHousing & Shelter$463kHealth$379kCommunity Improvement$359kPublic Benefit$177kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 235 grantees
All grantees of Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ocean Community YMCA$638,25091%
The Ocean Community United Theatre Inc$280,00073%
San Miguel Education Center$241,50062%
Local Initiatives Support Corporation$117,50060%
Rhode Island Community Food Bank Association$99,54570%
Johnson & Wales University$75,00050%
Olneyville Housing Corporation$72,50060%
Town of Westerly$67,0504n/a
Pawtucket Central Falls Development Corp$58,50061%
Amos House$56,50060%
West Elmwood Housing Development Co$56,00052%
Crossroads Rhode Island$55,00070%
The Station Fire Memorial Foundation$55,000118%
Children's Friend and Service$52,00050%
The Rhode Island Free Clinic Inc$51,50090%
Ocean Community Chamber Foundation$51,000712%
Community College of Rhode Island$50,5004n/a
Blackstone Valley Community Health Care Inc$50,00050%
Entrepreneurship for All Inc$47,50040%
Salve Regina University$46,50050%
Providence College$46,00090%
Woonsocket Neighborhood Development Corporation$45,00031%
Always Learning Rhode Island$45,000315%
Providence Public Library$40,00080%
Swap Inc (Stop Wasting Abandoned Property)$40,00020%
Olneyville Neighborhood Association$40,00026%
McAuley Corporation$39,00061%
Westerly Area Rest Meals (Warm) Inc$37,00071%
Wood River Health Services Inc$33,00070%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Providence$30,00030%
University of Rhode Island Foundation & Alumni Engagement$30,00050%
The Capital Good Fund$25,50090%
St Raphael Academy$25,0001n/a
Tower Street Center Inc$25,00021%
The Jonnycake Center Inc$22,50080%
The Jonnycake Center of Westerly Inc$21,50080%
Cranston League for Cranstons Future$21,00021%
Women & Infants Hospital of Ri$20,00020%
Rhode Island Bankers Association Inc$20,00017%
Teach for America Inc$20,00030%
The Saint Elizabeth Community$20,00040%
Royce Family Fund Inc$20,0001n/a
Urban Collaborative$20,00040%
Trinity Tabernacle Inc$20,0001n/a
Greater Providence Young Mens Christian Association$19,00040%
Bryant University$17,50040%
The Westerly Land Trust$16,00091%
New Haven Promise Inc$15,00020%
Quisqueya in Action Inc$15,0002n/a
Rhode Island Spotlight$13,0003n/a
The Miriam Hospital$12,50020%
Roger Williams University$11,00020%
Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc$10,75010%
Community Preparatory School$10,00050%
Times2 Inc$10,00020%
The Greenwich Library$10,00010%
Greater Providence Chamber Foundation$10,00014%
Scandinavian Home Inc$10,00010%
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas Inc$10,0001n/a
Hope & Main$10,00010%
Thundermist Health Center$10,00050%
Sojourner House Inc$10,00020%
Ronald McDonald House of Providence Inc$10,00020%
Providence Promise$10,00062%
Block Island Health Services Inc$10,00010%
Nonviolence Institute$10,00010%
Federal Hill House Association Inc$9,50030%
Comprehensive Community Action Inc$8,50090%
The Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum$8,00040%
First Unitarian Church of Providence$7,5001n/a
Helping Hands of Block Island Inc$7,50092%
Pawcatuck Neighborhood Center Inc$7,50090%
The Colonial Theatre School Inc$7,50012%
Westerly Armory Restoration Inc$7,50052%
Christian Community Action Inc$7,50090%
North Kingstown Food Pantry Inc$7,50090%
Health and Social Services Consortium Inc$7,50090%
Rhodeway Financial$7,50014%
Community 2000 Education Foundation$7,00070%
In-Sight$7,00070%
Woonasquatucket River Watershed$7,00020%
Educational Center of Arts and Sciences$7,00021%
Tri-County Community Action Agency$6,50060%
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$6,07190%
East Greenwich Interfaith Food Cupboard$6,0006n/a
Frank Olean Center Inc$6,00020%
Rhode Island Institute for Labor Studies and Research$6,00060%
Habitat for Humanity for Ri South County Inc$6,00020%
Community Musicworks$6,00030%
Columbian American Cultural Society$6,00024%
Rhode Island for Community and Justice$5,50051%
Westbay Community Action Inc$5,50070%
The Westerly Ambulance Corps Inc$5,50020%
Needham Community Council Inc$5,50070%
Ri Center Assisting Those in Need$5,30060%
Rhode Island Public Radio$5,00020%
Iyrs School of Technology & Trades Inc$5,00020%
Preserve Rhode Island$5,00020%
The Providence Tourism Fund$5,0001n/a
Youth in Action Inc$5,00020%
Care New England Health System$5,00010%
Better Lives Rhode Island$5,00050%
Rhode Island Black Heritage Society$5,0001n/a
Coventry Housing Associates Corporation$5,000112%
Cape Verdean Museum Exhibit$5,00022%
Blackstone Valley Tourism Council Inc$5,00010%
Northern RI Food Pantry$5,00050%
Gateway Community College Foundation Inc$5,00011%
Congress for the New Urbanism Inc$5,00010%
Good Neighbors Inc$5,00060%
The Wilbury Theatre Group$5,00011%
Christ Church$5,0001n/a
Woman Development Institute$5,0001n/a
Jewish Childrens Home of RI Inc$4,25050%
West Broadway Neighborhood Association$4,00061%
Read to Succeed Inc$4,00080%
Rhode Island Indian Council Inc$4,00010%
Pace Organization of Rhode Island$4,00020%
Society of St Vincent de Paul (Svdp) Rhode Island$3,50020%
Community Boating Center Inc$3,50021%
Meeting Street$3,50020%
James L Maher Center$3,50010%
Friends of Rhode Island Casa Inc$3,50026%
Supper Table$3,4002n/a
The Chorus of Westerly Inc$3,00010%
Day One$3,00060%
Mentor Rhode Island the Ri Mentoring Partnership Inc$3,00030%
The John E Fogarty Foundation for Persons W Intell and Dev Disabilities$3,00040%
Barrington Tap-In Inc$3,00020%
Providence Housing Authority$3,0002n/a
Family Service of Rhode Island Inc$3,00020%
Providence Preservation Society$3,00010%
Providence Children's Museum$2,50010%
Stand Up for Animals$2,50021%
Opendoors$2,50010%
Langworthy Public Library$2,50031%
Shri Service Corps$2,50013%
Downtown Providence Parks Network$2,50011%
New Urban Arts$2,50050%
Stages of Freedom$2,5001n/a
The Latino Policy Institute$2,5001n/a
College Unbound$2,50010%
The Learning Commnunity Charter School Inc$2,50010%
RI Slave History Medallions$2,5001n/a
The Greater North End Community Development Inc$2,00037%
Narragansett Historical Society$2,00021%
Familyaid Boston Inc$2,00020%
People Helping People Inc$2,00020%
The Art Connection in Rhode Island$2,00041%
Grow Smart Rhode Island$2,00020%
Dr Martin Luther King Scholarship Fund$2,00020%
New England Institute of Technology$2,00010%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of New England Inc$2,00020%
J Arthur Trudeau Memorial Center$2,00020%
Higher Ground International$2,00020%
The Genesis Center$2,00010%
Habitat for Humanity of Eastern Connecticut Inc$2,00010%
Domestic Violence Resource Center of South County Inc$2,00020%
The Westerly Revolving Fund Inc$2,00013%
Ashaway Free Library$2,00040%
East Bay Community Action Program$2,00010%
Sunrise Forever Inc$1,5002n/a
Women's Business Development Council Inc$1,50020%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$1,50020%
Providence Revolving Fund$1,50010%
Community Angels$1,5001n/a
Beautiful Day$1,50020%
Rhode Island Hispanic Chamber of Commerce$1,5001n/a
The Watch Hill Conservancy$1,50030%
Rhode Island Fire Chiefs Honor Flight Hub$1,50011%
The National Adrenal Diseases Foundation$1,0001n/a
Ri Elder Info$1,00012%
The Providence Foundation$1,00010%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc$1,00010%
Uss Groton Sail Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a
Whs Sports Boosters$1,0001n/a
Homes for Our Troops Inc$1,00010%
New Haven Symphony Orchestra Inc$1,00020%
World War II Foundation$1,00010%
NAMI Rhode Island$1,00010%
Waterfire Providence$1,00010%
Misquamicut Business Association$1,00010%
The Jewish Seniors Agency of Rhode Island$1,00010%
Foster Forward$1,00010%
Horace Mann Educational Associates Inc$1,00010%
The Wolf School Inc$1,00010%
New London Homeless Hospitality Center$1,00010%
Kent County Community Development$1,00011%
2390301 Coventry Little League$1,00011%
Project Hand Up$1,00010%
Waterspill Junction Inc$1,0001n/a
Center for Southeast Asians$1,00010%
Renaissance City Theatre Inc DBA The Granite Theatre$1,0001n/a
City of Pawtucket$1,0001n/a
Ashaway Ambulance Association Inc$1,0001n/a
Boys & Girls Club of East Providence Inc$1,0001n/a
The Westerly Hospital Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Down Syndrome Society of Rhode Island Inc$1,00012%
Saint Mary Home Incorporated$1,00010%
The Economic Progress Institute$1,0001n/a
Your Neighborhood Food Pantry$1,0001n/a
Tides Family Services Inc$1,00010%
Diversity & Inclusion Professionals$1,00012%
The Samaritans Inc$1,00011%
Peacelove Foundation$1,00010%
Lucy's Hearth$1,00010%
Southside Community Land Trust$1,0001n/a
Avalonia Land Conservancy Inc$1,0001n/a
Boys & Girls Clubs of Pawtucket$1,0001n/a
Amenity Aid$1,00010%
Rhode Island Parent Information Network Inc$1,00020%
Westerly Middle School PTO$1,0001n/a
Rhode Island Black Business Association$1,00021%
Medfield Foundation Inc$1,00011%
The Flower District$1,00010%
Meals on Wheels of Ri Inc$1,00010%
Southern Rhode Island Volunteers$1,00010%
Ron Burton Training Village Inc$1,00010%
Connecticut Foodshare Inc$93030%
Eastern Connecticut Housing$50010%
Saint Annes Food Pantry Inc$5001n/a
Providence Student Union$50010%
Person to Person Inc$50010%
Pawtucket Soup Kitchen$5001n/a
Hope Valley Grange 7 and Community Center Inc$5001n/a
Blackstone Valley Emergency Food Center Inc$50011%
The Plum Beach Garden Club Inc$5001n/a
Wakefield Concert Band$5001n/a
Easter Seals Rhode Island Inc$50010%
Literacy Volunteers of Washington County$50010%
Providence Animal Rescue League Inc$50010%
Connecting for Children and Families Inc$50010%
Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association$50010%
Project Goal Inc$50010%
Westerville Area Resource Ministry$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 124 recipients with no EIN on record ($841k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOcean Community YMCA: $638,250 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetThe Ocean Community United Theatre Inc: $280,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetSan Miguel Education Center: $241,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetLocal Initiatives Support Corporation: $117,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island Community Food Bank Association: $99,545 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJohnson & Wales University: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOlneyville Housing Corporation: $72,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPawtucket Central Falls Development Corp: $58,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetAmos House: $56,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWest Elmwood Housing Development Co: $56,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCrossroads Rhode Island: $55,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Station Fire Memorial Foundation: $55,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetChildren's Friend and Service: $52,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rhode Island Free Clinic Inc: $51,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetOcean Community Chamber Foundation: $51,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetBlackstone Valley Community Health Care Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEntrepreneurship for All Inc: $47,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSalve Regina University: $46,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetProvidence College: $46,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWoonsocket Neighborhood Development Corporation: $45,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAlways Learning Rhode Island: $45,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetProvidence Public Library: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSwap Inc (Stop Wasting Abandoned Property): $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOlneyville Neighborhood Association: $40,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetMcAuley Corporation: $39,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetWesterly Area Rest Meals (Warm) Inc: $37,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetWood River Health Services Inc: $33,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Providence: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Rhode Island Foundation & Alumni Engagement: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Capital Good Fund: $25,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTower Street Center Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetThe Jonnycake Center Inc: $22,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetThe Jonnycake Center of Westerly Inc: $21,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCranston League for Cranstons Future: $21,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWomen & Infants Hospital of Ri: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island Bankers Association Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Saint Elizabeth Community: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUrban Collaborative: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Providence Young Mens Christian Association: $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBryant University: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Westerly Land Trust: $16,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetNew Haven Promise Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Miriam Hospital: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRoger Williams University: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLawyers for Civil Rights Inc: $10,750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Preparatory School: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTimes2 Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 193.

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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.

The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI185× affinity136 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 · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Amica Companies Foundation · The Beacon Foundation · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · Citizens Charitable Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn

How much does Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn give?
Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn reported 138 grants totaling $832,005 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 76 and 120 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (18%), Education (17%), Philanthropy (14%).
Who are Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ocean Community YMCA ($638k), The Ocean Community United Theatre Inc ($280k), San Miguel Education Center ($242k).
Does Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, The Champlin Foundation, United Way of Rhode Island Inc.
Where is Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn based?
Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn is based in RI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 364 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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