· Private foundation
William & Alfred Taft Charitable Trust
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OXFORD COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| OXFORD COUNCIL ON AGING | $10,000 |
| OXFORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $7,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST | $4,000 |
| EMMANUEL COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| BENTLEY UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of William & Alfred Taft Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in RI; by stated purpose, 65%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2026, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
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 FY2026, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TOTHE OXFORD ECUMENICAL COUNCIL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $89k · revenue +14% · 30% of their budget
ENDICOTT COLLEGE2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue +7%
TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2025 · $4k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- TOTOWN OF OXFORDone grant, 2025 · $20k
- OPOXFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2021 · $10k
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEone grant, 2025 · $4k · revenue 0%
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
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…
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 37 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 OXFORD ECUMENICAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ENDICOTT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds POINT PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BENTLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William & Alfred Taft Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William & Alfred Taft Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Babson College: 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
- Endicott College: 1% of income from government
- Merrimack College: 1% of income from government
- Suffolk University: 1% of income from government
- Assumption University: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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