FundersRhode Island

St Paul Housing Corp

Warwick, RI · EIN 05-0513907. Reported 49 grants totalling $496,721 to 26 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$496,721granted, 2021-2024
26organizations funded
57%of grantees funded again the next year
$4,012,194assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. St Paul Housing Corp did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $2,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $149,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
37 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
3 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
7 grants
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
St Paul Evangelical Lutheran ChurchWarwick, RI$206,621442024
Crossroads RiProvidence, RI$34,000332024
Habitat for Humanity South CountyCharlestown, RI$34,000332024
Habitat for Humanity West Bay and Northern RiCumberland, RI$34,000332024
Habitat for Humanity - Greater Providence RiProvidence, RI$30,000112024
House & Hope Community DevelopmentWarwick, RI$30,000112024
Operation Stand DownJohnston, RI$30,000112024
Elizabeth Buffum Chace CenterWarwick, RI$24,000332024
Tunnel to Towers FoundationStaten Island, NY$20,000112024
A Wish Come True IncCoventry, RI$4,000222023
Ascentria Care AllianceWorcester, MA$4,000222023
Calumet Lutheran MinistriesWest Ossipee, NH$4,000222023
ELCA Hunger AppealChicago, IL$4,000222023
Hope Health & HospiceProvidence, RI$4,000222023
Ne Seafarers MissionBoston, MA$4,000222023
Providence Rescue MissionProvidence, RI$4,000222023
Ri Community Food BankProvidence, RI$4,000222023
Shriners Hospital for ChildrenTampa, FL$4,000222023
The Salvation ArmyProvidence, RI$4,000222023
Westbay Community ActionWarwick, RI$4,000222023
Westbay Ri ResidentialWarwick, RI$4,000222023
American Bible SocietyPhilidelphia, PA$1,500112023
Northwest Competitive CheerPawtucket, RI$1,500112023
Tin Mountain Conservation CenterConway, NH$1,500112022
University of Rhode Island Cheer OrganizationKingston, RI$1,500112023
Wounded Warrior ProjectTopeka, KS$100112022

17 of 26 (65%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 57%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 12 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
7 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Religion
1 grant
Housing & Shelter
1 grant
Environment
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20211$31,221$31,221
202219$182,600$2,000
202320$60,500$2,000
20249$222,400$30,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 91% of this one's giving went to organizations in Rhode Island. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Rhode Island
$454K
New York
$20K
Massachusetts
$8K
New Hampshire
$6K
Illinois
$4K
Florida
$4K
Pennsylvania
$2K
Kansas
$100

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

The Rhode Island Community Foundation8 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsUnited Way of Rhode Island Inc7 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc6 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc5 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Rhode Island.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from St Paul Housing Corp's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2022-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 389 Greenwich Avenue, Warwick, RI, 02886. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 05-0513907 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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