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Chartercare Foundation

North Providence, RI · EIN 26-0236669. Reported 41 grants totalling $950,489 to 27 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

27organizations funded
$24,090median reported grant
$950,489granted, 2020-2024
23%of grantees funded again the next year
8%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 27 distinct organizations, with 8% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 23% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $24,090. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $28,419; the smallest was $7,769 and the largest $57,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
22 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
17 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Bradley Hospital FoundationProvidence, RI$76,870332024
Childrens Friend and ServiceProvidence, RI$66,590332023
Family Service of Rhode Island IncProvidence, RI$65,919332023
Amenity AidWarwick, RI$65,000332024
Sojourner HouseProvidence, RI$57,000112024
Shri Service CorpsPawtucket, RI$55,640222024
A Wish Come True IncCoventry, RI$55,000222022
Thundermist Health CenterWoonsocket, RI$49,400222022
Rhode Island Oral Health FoundationWoonsocket, RI$45,000332024
Crossroads Rhode IslandProvidence, RI$42,231112021
Newport County Community Mental Health Center IncMiddletown, RI$38,802112020
Ocean Community YMCAWesterly, RI$38,785222024
Adoption Rhode IslandProvidence, RI$38,000112021
Foster ForwardE Providence, RI$30,000112021
St Marys Home for Disabled Children IncNorfolk, VA$29,000112022
Clinica Esperanza Hope ClinicProvidence, RI$25,000112021
Providence Village of Rhode IslandProvidence, RI$25,000112024
Hasbrofoundation IncPawtucket, RI$24,792112022
Saint Elizabeth CommunityWarwick, RI$23,244112021
Martin Luther King Community Center IncorporatedNewport, RI$16,500112024
Community Care AllianceWoonsocket, RI$15,000112020
Hasbro Children's HospitalProvidence, RI$13,947112021
The Jonnycake Center IncPeace Dale, RI$13,500112024
Ri Communities for Addiction Recovery Efforts IncProvidence, RI$12,500112020
Community Action Partnership of ProvidenceProvidence, RI$10,000112021
National Foundation of Dentistry for the HandicappedWest Warwick, RI$10,000112022
Comprehensive Community Action IncCranston, RI$7,769112021

9 of 27 (33%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 19 of 27 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
9 orgs
Health Care
4 orgs
Mental Health
3 orgs
Housing & Shelter
1 org
Recreation & Sports
1 org
Community Improvement
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20208$170,142$18,470
202110$232,316$24,122
20229$193,702$24,792
20235$116,599$25,000
20249$237,730$24,090

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

97% of its giving went to organizations in Rhode Island. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Rhode Island
$921K
Virginia
$29K

Down to the city

Providence, RI
$433K
Woonsocket, RI
$109K
Warwick, RI
$88K
Pawtucket, RI
$80K
Coventry, RI
$55K
Middletown, RI
$39K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

The Rhode Island Community Foundation23 shared recipientsThe Champlin Foundation17 shared recipientsUnited Way of Rhode Island Inc17 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund16 shared recipientsCentreville Savings Bank Charitable14 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc13 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $24,090 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Rhode Island.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Chartercare Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 7 Waterman Avenue, North Providence, RI, 02911.

EIN 26-0236669 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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