2019 Annual Report

2019 Annual Report

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April 2020 To our partners: Times have changed dramatically here in Rhode Island — and around the world — since the end of 2019; we are in the midst of an unprecedented health and economic crisis. Community foundations are poised to respond in times like these, as both immediate and long-term needs present themselves.

In mid-March, we established the COVID-19 Response Fund which has deployed — and will continue to deploy — financial resources to nonprofit organizations that are on the front line of COVID-19 response for our state. We will continue to stay connected to the community and to use all of the tools at our disposal to respond with urgency, and with an eye toward our state's collective, long-term success.

Be well.

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Contents

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Dear Friends,

Letter from the President & CEO and Chair

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Mission and vision

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To help a city it takes a village

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Cleaner than it's been in 150 years ­— Narragansett Bay is not saving itself

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A Rhode Island couple comes back and gives back

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Realizing a long-term vision for Rhode Island requires a plan­­ — Better yet, two plans

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2019 Civic Leadership Fund donors

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Rhode Island Foundation in the news

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2019 results

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Legacy donor stories

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The 1916 Society

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New donor stories

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Board of Directors

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Staff

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Funds

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Supporting Organizations

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Financials

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We’re excited to share the Foundation’s 2019 Annual Report with you. On the following pages, you’ll read stories of generous donors, and incredibly dedicated, hardworking grantee partners, and you’ll read about how we’re actively engaging in civic leadership as Rhode Island’s community foundation.

You’ll also learn more about the Foundation’s 2019 results. At the end of the year, total assets stood at approximately $1.1 billion, and our investment return for the year was 18.6%, bringing our 10-year average return to 8.5%. Steady returns and year-over-year fundraising allow us to grow the Foundation’s endowment and invest more into the community. To that end, we raised $47 million in partnership with visionary and committed donors, and awarded a record $56 million in grants to over 2000 nonprofits in 2019.

The Foundation also raised a record $620,000 for our Civic Leadership Fund, an annual fund that allows us to get­ — and stay­ — involved in the issues of the day. For example, we convened and led two long-term planning processes this past year: one focused on health in Rhode Island, and one on pre-K through 12th grade public education. You’ll read more about those in this report as well.

members who partner with the Foundation to work toward fulfillment of our mission — to meet the needs of the people of Rhode Island. And, we are excited for what the future holds — there is so much more to do, challenges and opportunities to take head-on — and we’re ready.

With warm regards,

Mary Brooks Wall, Chair

Neil D. Steinberg President & CEO

As we reflect on the close of a decade, we would like to express our gratitude to the generous donors, grantees, and community

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Mission �e Rhode Island Foundation is a proactive community and philanthropic leader dedicated to meeting the needs of the people of Rhode Island.

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Vision

Lead.

We have earned the trust of our donors, community leaders, and Rhode Islanders through a century of effective investments, strategic grants, and responsible decisions.

Transform.

We align our fundraising, grantmaking, and leadership to inspire and engage Rhode Islanders to address today’s challenges and create lasting improvements in our community.

Inspire.

We challenge and encourage Rhode Islanders to become active and involved in the community, to form meaningful partnerships, and to work together for the good of Rhode Island.

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To help a city it takes a village

By Jennifer Pereira

While the Foundation has three strategic initiatives — economic security, educational success, and healthy lives — none of those exist in a vacuum. They are all interwoven in our communities and in our daily lives, with change in any one of them affecting the others. The following story illustrates how nonprofit organizations from different fields in just one part of our state are working together to improve the lives of their residents. We are proud to support their efforts.

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always eat. She understands now that there wasn’t enough food for everyone.

“The housing (Tonomy Hill) looked a lot like old military barracks. There was a lot of drug activity, and we weren’t allowed to go outside by ourselves,” Ellen says.

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s an AmeriCorps volunteer with the Newport Working Cities Collaborative, Ellen Pinnock worked in three Newport public schools. One advantage she had was her ability to connect with the students who were dealing with many of the same challenges she had faced while growing up.

The daughter of a Native American and Irish mother and an African American father, Ellen was raised by a single mother in public housing in what then was Tonomy Hill in Newport’s North End. Her mother had five children by the time she was nineteen, and health issues prevented her from working.

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She continues, “School was great, and I had very good teachers who sort of took me in. They knew more about my background than I did.” But when she moved to another, now-closed elementary school in Newport, she notes, “I didn’t do well. I was the only brown kid at the school. I spent a lot of time by myself. The Boys & Girls Club became like a haven to me. I learned about things like cooking and sewing that I wouldn’t have been exposed to otherwise.”

Ellen’s family lived briefly in South Carolina, returning to Newport when Ellen should have entered tenth grade. Instead, she worked two jobs and earned a GED. She later attended Bristol Community College followed by the Community College of Rhode Island, where she earned a degree in general studies.

“Seeing what my mother went through made me want to do better and reach higher. I’m one of those people who, when someone needs something, I want to be there to help,” Ellen explains. Ellen is there not only for her daughter, Dorothy, a tenth grader at Rogers High School, but also for other Newporters who need a helping hand. She currently is coordinator for the Newport Check & Connect program which ­— under the direction p11

of FabNewport ­— works in the Newport Public Schools to reduce absenteeism and truancy. She also volunteers at the Women’s Resource Center and the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center (MLK Center).

Executive directors at these ­— and other ­— Newport nonprofits agree with Ellen’s “it takes a village” approach to making their city a better place for all its residents. “We’re all trying to help support families in Newport and Newport County. We don’t all do the same work, but we know who does other work and does it well,” states Heather Hole Strout, executive director of the MLK Center.

A significant issue facing Newporters is that nearly half of the city’s jobs are in the hospitality industry and 30% of all jobs in the city pay less than $30,000 per year, explains Ashley Medeiros, director of Connect Greater Newport, stating “People are working, yet they can’t afford to live here. This affects children and families...and the future of Newport.”

an integrated and efficient workforce development system.”

Colleen Jermain, EdD, superintendent of “Changing that requires a change in culture and Newport Public Schools, illustrates the point climate,” explains Rhonda Mitchell, executive with a story. A school officer visited the home of director, Newport Housing Authority, noting a child who had been absent, and he found there recent racial equity trainings coordinated was no food in the house. He helped the family through the Newport Health Equity Zone (HEZ). get assistance from the MLK Center, the largest “We had uncomfortable conversations, but our volume food pantry in Newport County. “If you commitment was unwavering. It (racial diversity) don’t have food, you can’t learn,” Colleen explains. is not a threat, it’s an asset. That’s the beauty of this community.”

Many Newporters rely on the island’s nonprofits to help them with basic needs that are critical Such change, the leaders agree, requires to their day-to-day lives. At the same time, not only their working together, but also nonprofit leaders are addressing disparities and authentic engagement from residents. “Trust the need for systemic change that will provide is a really big part of this,” says Chris Gross, greater ­— and longer lasting ­— benefits for these chief empathy officer at FabNewport. Jazmine residents.

Wray, HEZ strategy manager at the Women’s “We need to acknowledge that racism exists across every system in America,” stresses Kate Cantwell, strategic initiative director for the Newport Working Cities Collaborative, which works “to lift families out of poverty through... p12

Resource Center, continues, “We’re working to lift residents’ voices and to help them get more engaged. More North End and Broadway residents are speaking out.”

It’s “the future of Newport” that drives these community members and requires them to address intertwined social issues, improving city residents’ opportunities for excellent health, education, and economic security.

Health, education, and economic security are connected in every way.

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Children with parents who have steady employment are more likely to have access to health care.

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Children with working parents are more engaged academically and less likely to repeat a grade or be suspended or expelled from school than children with nonworking parents.

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Rhode Islanders who have achieved a Bachelor’s degree or higher have nearly double the wages compared to residents who have only completed high school.

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Between 2013 and 2017 in Rhode Island, adults with high school diplomas were three times more likely to be unemployed as those with Bachelor’s degrees or higher.

Jennifer Pereira is the Rhode Island Foundation's Vice President of Grant Programs.

Source: 2019 Rhode Island KIDS COUNT Factbook

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Cleaner than it’s been in 150 years Narragansett Bay is not saving itself

By Jennifer Pereira

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ts name is its mission. Protecting the health and future of Narragansett Bay and its watershed has been Save The Bay’s goal for the past 50 years.

Founded by concerned citizens in 1970, the organization’s initial focus was on stopping proposed oil refineries in Jamestown and Tiverton. Through the decades, the focus has evolved and expanded ­— to industrial pollution in the 80s, habitat restoration in the 90s, and a major investment in education in the 2000s.

“Any organization that’s been around for 50 years needs to adapt and change. What began as a tiny advocacy group now is an organization that has ­— and has earned ­— a seat at the table where environmental issues are being discussed,” states Jonathan Stone, executive director of Save The Bay.

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Jonathan credits each of the three executive directors who preceded him with helping build the organization into the environmental powerhouse it is today. “John Scanlon started it all. He was the creative instigator. Trudy Coxe was the firebrand, the rabble-rouser.

And Curt Spalding transformed the organization into an institution with enduring capacity,” Jonathan believes. Both Trudy and Curt now are members of the Save The Bay board of trustees.

And Jonathan’s legacy? Smiling, he says that under his leadership, “The ship did not go down.” He explains that soon after he took over the reigns as executive director in 2009, significant federal funding ­— on which Save The Bay relied heavily ­— dried up. “We needed to reduce costs, increase program revenue, and increase philanthropy. Rhode Island Foundation played a really critical role in our evolution,” Jonathan says. p15

The grants from the Foundation were pivotal, and he also notes the value of Foundation capacity building workshops that he and both staff and board members attended. “We’ve never been more impactful. We’ve spent a lot of time on execution. We have an incredible group of people who are helping us: a board that is very engaged in our work and a staff of the most professional, capable, compassionate people,” Jonathan shares.

The Foundation’s support of Save The Bay goes back to the environmental group’s earliest days.

Records show that the Foundation awarded a “modest grant” of $1,000 in 1972 for general support. Today, Save The Bay is in the second year of a multi-year grant for its advocacy, education, and outreach initiatives. “The funding from Rhode Island Foundation allows us to retain staff capacity and to respond to things that are hard to predict,” Jonathan adds.

He continues, “We’re often asked, ‘Are we done?

Is the Bay clean enough?’ There are three big things we need to be concerned with. The first is climate change and the affect it’s having through rising sea levels and warmer waters. The second is that our forests are being replaced by suburbs.

We need to make smart changes in our land use and real estate development. And finally, we need enforcement of existing environmental laws and the creation of a recurring funding stream for climate adaptation.”

“Environmental problems can seem overwhelming, but there are things we can do.

It’s a question of whether we make it a priority. At Save The Bay, we ask ‘What can we do?’ There’s a ton we can do, and I’m very optimistic. There’s great opportunity to have an impact,” Jonathan concludes.

Indeed, it’s what Save The Bay has been doing for 50 years.

Jennifer Pereira is the Rhode Island Foundation’s Vice President of Grant Programs.

Save The Bay monitors the actions of government agencies charged with protecting the environment and holds them accountable, analyzing the potential impacts of a wide range of policies and proposals. Director of Advocacy & Policy Topher Hamblett is active in the state houses of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, in the halls of Congress, and in municipalities and communities throughout the watershed. p16

Responsive Grants snapshot Our responsive grants program is designed to respond to the expressed needs of the community and supports organizations across the nonprofit sector — from the arts to children and families — and from housing to the environment and more.

The following is a sampling of 2019 Responsive Grant recipient organizations.

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Adoption Rhode Island

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African Alliance of Rhode Island

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Alliance to Mobilize Our Resistance – AMOR

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AS220

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Boys & Girls Clubs of Northern Rhode Island

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Community MusicWorks

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DARE (Direct Action for Rights and Equality)

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Day One

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Girls Rock! Rhode Island

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HousingWorks RI at Roger Williams University

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The Nature Conservancy

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Newport Partnership for Families

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The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre

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Sojourner House

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Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum

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Transcending Through Education Foundation

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WARM Center

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Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council

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A Rhode Island couple comes back and gives back

by James S. Sanzi, JD

“We’re here to be educated as well as to act,” says Mark Mancini who, with his wife Pam (Milligan) Mancini, became a philanthropic partner of the Foundation in 2018. “We feel there are a lot of needs in the state that we aren’t aware of. I did a lot of investigating of organizations that we could work with, and I found a natural fit with the Rhode Island Foundation,” Mark continues.

“The Foundation is about finding solutions, and its three primary areas of focus — education, economic security, and health — mesh well with what we’re interested in,” Pam shares.

Mark and Pam grew up in Providence and both graduated from Classical High School and Rhode Island College (RIC). Pam earned a master of public administration degree from Syracuse University, while Mark continued his education at New York University where he earned a master of business administration degree.

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returning from Hong Kong in 2012, their primary residence has been New York City where Mark helped found Ergoteles Capital, an investment management firm; he currently serves as its chief operating officer.

Their roots, however, are in Rhode Island.

“This is where we grew up, where we went to school, and where we have lifelong friends. Our emotional ties and history are with Rhode Island; it’s our home,” Mark explains from the Barrington home they purchased from his mother.

disaster services volunteer, and was active in the schools when their children, now 21 and 23 years old, were younger.

They are staunch supporters of Rhode Island College, with Pam serving as a long-time member and current secretary of the Rhode Island College Foundation board of directors and Mark assisting with fundraising and searches for college deans.

The couple established a scholarship fund at RIC in 2001.

“We want to get more engaged in the Rhode Island community, and we know the Foundation can help us to do that. It has a great understanding of the needs of the state and can help us have the greatest impact. The Foundation’s Civic Leadership Fund is important to me. I believe you need the opportunity to study a problem, investigate it, and look at the challenges and assumptions before you act. The Civic Leadership Fund gives the Foundation and its donors the opportunity to do that work,” Mark states.

Pam especially appreciates hands-on volunteering and philanthropy. She has volunteered for many years with the American Red Cross, serving as a

Through their donor advised fund, the Mancinis have chosen to support the Civic Leadership Fund, as well as the Fund for Rhode Island. Of the

latter, Mark says, “I understand the importance of unrestricted funds which allow the Foundation to do what it thinks is best for the state. The Foundation is forward-thinking and looking for solutions to the state’s bigger challenges.”

“We want to do more than just give dollars. We want to have an impact that will give people hope and change lives. The Rhode Island Foundation will help us to become better educated and will be our guide. There’s a brilliant quote from Mr. Rogers, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ Rhode Island Foundation is one of those helpers,” Pam concludes.

James S. Sanzi, JD is the Rhode Island Foundation’s Senior Vice President of Development.

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Realizing a long-term vision for Rhode Island requires a plan Better yet, two plans

By Neil D. Steinberg

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t has been said that if you aren’t sure where you are going, you won’t get there. It’s true.

To do our best work as a state — and to truly improve economic, health, and educational outcomes for all Rhode Islanders — we need to chart a course and stay the course as a community. At the highest levels of government and industry, we see that growing the Rhode Island economy is made a priority. That said, without improving health and educational outcomes, even a better economy will still be a fragile economy. It’s time to prioritize health and pre-K to 12th grade public education, too.

It is time to be bold and innovative in these two areas. Without that, too many Rhode Islanders are falling behind. As a community, we have not committed to an enduring vision and long-term plan that transcends election cycles, overcomes special-interest inertia, and is guarded and guided by doing what is right for Rhode Islanders.

That is why, over a year ago, we convened two long-term planning committees with local, senior-level experts in health and pre-K to 12th grade public education. The two groups worked independently, meeting monthly to create a long-term approach for improving the health of Rhode Islanders and for improving pre-K to 12th grade public education. Both groups sought to identify the most pressing needs and commit to state-level coordination and institutional decision-making that will address those needs over the next ten years.

Very early on in both planning processes, the health and education committees identified a similar focus ­— on equity. The health committee quickly turned their attention to the fact that good health isn’t only about healthcare. It’s p22

about living in a safe place, having access to nutritious food, being supported by a caring community, and knowing that quality, affordable, physical and behavioral healthcare is readily available. And the group acknowledged that equitable access to each of those important components isn’t available to all­ ­— but it could be, especially in a state like ours. The education committee was clear from the outset that to truly improve outcomes for all Rhode Islanders we need to chart a course, and stay the course as a community ­— committed to high achievement and equity for students, families, and educators who are part of the public school system.

Recently, each of these groups issued a report outlining its process, vision, priorities, and strategies which members of the two committees endorsed. Our endorsement is included in that list, and the Foundation has committed $1 million to the implementation of each of the 10-year plans ­— $2 million in total, above and beyond our traditional grantmaking in these two sectors.

Each long-term planning committee has also convened community members around the longterm planning processes. In early December, the Long-Term Education Planning Committee welcomed over 300 parents, students, teachers, school administrators, policy makers, advocates, and education-sector leaders for an all-day brainstorming event. Called, Make It Happen: A World Class Public Education for Rhode Island, the event gave the committee and each attendee an opportunity to reflect on priorities and strategies for improving pre-K to 12th grade public education in Rhode Island, and to brainstorm tactics for making improvement a

reality. After Make It Happen, the planning committee reviewed table and scribe notes from each brainstorming session and incorporated much of the feedback received into their final report. The final report is available at www. rifoundation.org/EdinRI. Just after the release of the Long-Term Health Planning Committee’s final report, which can be found at www. rifoundation.org/HealthinRI, the group brought together 200 health-sector leaders, advocates, policy makers, and providers to a half-day convening and brainstorming session.

As each of these efforts moves beyond visioning and prioritysetting and toward the work of truly improving health and educational outcomes for all Rhode Islanders, the Foundation stands ready to support and invest in the work.

Make it Happen wrapped up a day of intense brainstorming with a panel discussion featuring Senate President Ruggerio; Representative McNamara, Chair of the House of Representatives Health, Education, and Welfare Committee; Commissioner InfanteGreen, and Governor Raimondo, and moderated by Neil Steinberg.

As the chair of both planning committees, it’s been a privilege to work among leaders and experts in their respective fields to find potential solutions that will benefit our state. It is also an extraordinary testament to the people around each committee table­ — both health and education — to see how dedicated they are to finding solutions. In each group there are

members who are sometimes on opposite sides of a bargaining table, or are in competition with one another — and there was no animosity, and no posturing, just two groups of dedicated professionals with their sights set on what is best for our state.

Neil D. Steinberg is the Rhode Island Foundation's President & CEO.

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The Long-term Health Planning Convening kicked off with a panel of Committee members describing their process, vision, guiding principles, goals, priorities, and strategies. p24

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2019 Civic Leadership Fund Donors

We thank those who supported our civic leadership efforts in 2019. This work creates a stronger, more vibrant community, encourages collaboration to solve important issues, seizes emerging opportunities, and funds valuable research.

Anonymous (6) AAA Northeast Charitable Fund Allen Family Fund Michael K. Allio Edward F. Almon Fund The Grace K. and Wesley S. Alpert Charitable Foundation

Fred and Joyce Butler

Sally Dowling

Golden Einhorn Family Fund

Canepari Family Fund

Duffy & Shanley, Inc.

Leon and Barbara Goldstein Fund

Canyon Partners LLC

Charles & Nancy Dunn Family Fund

Larry Goldstein

Richard and Louise Carriere

Eastern Bank and Eastern Insurance Group

Henry Gonsalves Family Fund

Carter Fund

Embolden Charitable Fund

Joanne Gorman Fund

William and Jill Caskey

FAF Cares Fund

George Graboys Leadership Fund

Elizabeth Z. Chace Fund

Jonathan and Ruth Fain Fund

Gudoian Family Fund

Chemical Company Fund

Linda Fain Family Fund in Memory of Beatrice and Archie Fain

Halkyard Family Fund

Cherry Family Fund Choquette Family Fund Citizens Bank of Rhode Island

Donald Farish Memorial Fund Malcolm Farmer III, Esq. Feibelman Family Fund

Almon and Suzanne Hall Family Fund Janet Hall Ned and Polly Handy

Amica Companies Foundation

Jean and Scott Cohoon

Applegate Fund

Connors and Murphy Family Fund

Peri Ann Aptaker and Robert Lieberman

Cornish Associates, LP

Arden Engineering Constructors, LLC

Corrigan Financial, Inc.

Aditya Arora

Michael and Jamie Costello

Daxa Arora

Cox Communications

Patricia J. Flanagan, MD and Mark Schwager, MD

BankNewport/OceanPoint Charitable Fund

Donna Cupelo

Paul S. Follett

Larry J. and Kay P. Hirsch Charitable Fund

Chris and Susanna Barnett

Customers Bank

Robert and Wendy Fournier

Barry and Kathleen Hittner Fund

Victor & Gussie Baxt Fund

CVS Health

Mimi and Peter Freeman Fund

The Home Loan Foundation

Oliver Bennett and Martha Boss Bennett

Peter and Anne Damon

Gregory Gagnon

Honey Buzz Fund

Blount Fine Foods Fund

Daugherty Family Fund

Ira S. and Anna Galkin Fund

Hope Global

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island Community Health Fund

Susan Leach DeBlasio, Esq.

Susan and Jim Garlington Fund

The Honorable Steven S. Howitt and Pamela Tesler Howitt

BnV Charitable Fund

Wendi DeClercq

Susan Gershkoff

Allen and Katharine Howland-Gammell Family Fund

Karen and Leon C. Boghossian III, Esq.

Delta Dental of Rhode Island

Louis Giancola and Pamela C. High, MD

Imperial 718 Fund

Raymond and Brenda Bolster

Richard and Carol DeRienzo

Gilbert Charitable Fund

Ryan and Alison Jackson

Adrian BonĂŠy and Martha Fish

David and Elaine DeSousa Family Fund

Gail Ginnetty

Johnson & Wales University

Bridge Technical Talent, LLC

Diligentiam, LLC

Richard J. Gladney Charitable Endowment Fund

Simone Joyaux and Tom Ahern

Marjorie W. and George B. Bullock, Jr. Fund

Dimeo Construction Company

Glass Family Fund

Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co., Ltd.

Burke Bryant Family Fund

Jerrold and Amy Dorfman

The Honorable Maureen McKenna Goldberg

Daniel Kertzner

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Carrie Bridges Feliz and Ruben Feliz Fidelity Investments Douglas and Kathleen Fisher Joseph and Roberta Fisler

The Hassenfeld Family Foundation Danielle and Michael Haxton Family Fund Hayes & Sherry Real Estate Services Patrick O'Neill Hayes, Jr. Hebert Family Fund Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP

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Ron Kertzner, Susan Jordan Kertzner and Elisa Kertzner in memory of Judith Kertzner Joseph Kirby Hank Kniskern Max Kohlenberg and Becky Minard KPMG, LLP Alan and Sharon Kurose Bruce Lang Good Government Fund of RI Marie Langlois Laurans Family Fund Eunice and Harold Levene Family Memorial Donor Advised Fund

Meridian Printing, Inc.

Residential Properties Ltd.

David and Frances Syner

Terry A. Meyer Fund

Rhode Island Medical Society Medical Purpose Fund

Anne and Michael Szostak Fund

Mid City Steel Corporation

Rhode Island Society of Certified Public Accountants Philanthropy Fund

Tamburro Family Charitable Fund

Dorothy Carol Mitchell Charitable Fund Kristen and Michael Moonan Nicholas C. and Allison M. Moore Fund Russell Morin Fine Catering Fund Murphy Family Fund Murray Family Charitable Foundation Mutual of America Jane S. Nelson

June Rockwell Levy Foundation

NetCenergy

Lifespan

Paula and Robert O'Brien

Carl and Maryann Lisa Family Charitable Fund

Pamela Boylan Ong and Warren Ong

Mary Lovejoy and John Whistler

Ken Orenstein and Barbara Feibelman

Cynthia M. Macarchuk Donor Advised Fund

Ali Dunn Packer Memorial Fund

Ronald K. and Kati C. Machtley Fund

William and Judith Palmisciano

Kathleen and Edward Malin

Lauren Paola

Liz Manchester

Parris Family Fund

Mancini Family Fund

Partridge Snow & Hahn, LLP

Robert A. Mancini and Rose Marie C. Ruffel

Pawtucket Credit Union

Mandel & Tracy, LLC

Pearlman Charitable Fund

Bhikhaji Maneckji Fund

Linda Marie Pearson

Maranatha Fund

Peter and Sheri Phillips

Ruth and Samuel Markoff Fund

Dana Pickard

David Matarese

PKF O'Connor Davies LLP

McConnell Family Fund

Matthew and Stephanie Plain

Liz and Jack McDonald Fund

Plum Pointe Wealth Management, Ltd.

Mearthane Products Corporation

Porter Braden Fund

Samuel M. and Ann S. Mencoff Foundation

Prime Buchholz, LLC

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RI Real Estate Services LLC Ricci Family Fund Karen Riibner in honor of Barry Robbins Henry and Jan Rines Fund Arthur S. Robbins Roberts, Carroll, Feldstein & Peirce Rooks Family Fund Mark and Donna Ross Edward J. & Virginia M. Routhier Foundation Charles and Deborah Royce Rykat Fund George M. and Barbara H. Sage Fund Salten Weingrod Family Fund Jim and Erika Sanzi Craig and Pamela Sawin Mary and Michael Schwartz Fund Peggy and Henry Sharpe Fund Deming and Jane Sherman

John A. and Patrice A. Tarantino Taylor Box Company Taylor Strong Charitable Fund James E. Tiernan Memorial Fund The Honorable Ernest Torres and Jan Torres Constance Kane Tucker Fund Jerome and Mary Vascellaro Verrecchia Family Foundation W.B. Mason Ashbel T. Wall and Maria DeCarvalho Robert W. Daly and Mary B. Wall Fund Washington Trust Charitable Foundation The Weatherlow Foundation Miriam Weizenbaum Grafton H. Willey IV, CPA Harrison and Josephine Wright The Zennovation Fund for Rhode Island Coleman B. Zimmerman Memorial Fund

Paul Silver and Katherine Haspel Joan and Paul Sorensen Soutter Family Fund Starkweather & Shepley Charitable Fund Neil Steinberg and Eugenia Shao Elaine and Kevin Stiles Fund Strategic Retirement Partners Shivan and Jyothi Subramaniam Kim and Howard Sutton Fund p29

Rhode Island Foundation

In The News

Rhode Island Foundation gives emergency grants to food banks

Aim of all-day brainstorming session: Make R.I. schools ‘world class'

Grants available to local groups for 2020 Census outreach

R.I. Foundation distributes $385K in grants to projects in 26 communities

Connect Greater Newport awarded $50,000 to support regional economic development

Rl Foundation offers more than $2 million in college scholarships

Westerly Sun December 22, 2019

The Providence Journal December 7, 2019

Pawtucket Times October 27, 2019

Providence Business News August 30, 2019

Newport Daily News October 18, 2019

Warwick Beacon April 11, 2019

Cranston Library wins grant to launch racial equity initiative

Town touts new tools for treating childhood trauma

Rhode Island Foundation otorga Clinica Esperanza USD 300,000 para brindar atencin a los inmigrantes hispanos

Newport slavery memorial gets boost from Rhode Island Foundation

Farm to freedom: Rhode Island Training School’s farming program gives teens new skills

Schools receiving grants for 'innovative learning'

Cranston Herald August 29, 2019

Coventry Courier September 6, 2019

Providence en Espanol May 29, 2019

What’s Up Newp February 28, 2019

NBC 10 News December 23, 2019

Woonsocket Call April 22, 2019

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2019 results

“We wanted the stability, support, and investment know-how of the Foundation.

Its reputation is priceless.

Why wouldn’t we go with the best?”

— Deb Tanner Southern Rhode Island Volunteers Fund

1.1B 55 47M Total Foundation assets

Total funds raised

620K

2.4M Scholarships awarded

Raised for Civic Leadership

56M to 2,000 + Total grantmaking

28%

Grants Foundation directed

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New funds established

Nonprofit organizations

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72%

Grants donor directed

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Bickford Family Charitable Fund

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e both love Jamestown, its farms, the surrounding ocean, the people, sailing, golf, tennis, paddle tennis, the ocean smells, and wonderful walking,” Milton and Julia Bickford stated in a 2009 interview with the Foundation.

Legacy donor stories We honor members of the 1916 Society who recently passed away.

Following are some of their stories.

The Bickfords have both since died, Milton in 2010 (age 78) and Julia in 2019 (age 88), but their love for Jamestown continues through their three daughters who are advisors to this fund established through the elder Bickford’s estate plan.

“Jamestown is a special place to all of us. It was important to our parents, and now to us, to keep Jamestown simple and non-commercial,” sisters Pamela Corsi and Shelley Koch agree.

“It’s about the beauty of the ocean, farms, nature, and community of the island. Jamestown is like Newport’s little cousin without the shops and cruise ships.” Pamela and Shelley now live in Massachusetts, but the Bickford’s third daughter, Suzanne Bickford, still resides in Jamestown where she raised her three children.

shouldn’t.” Julia’s Providence Journal obituary summed up their love of the island: “Jay ( Julia) and Skip (Milton) considered living on the ocean in Jamestown to be paradise.”

The elder Bickfords made only one request of their daughters as they recommend grants from this fund: that grants benefit Jamestown organizations.

As they explained, “We’ve always supported the many charitable organizations on the Island, but now with the establishment of the Bickford Family Charitable Remainder Trust, we will be able to do so to a far greater degree.”

Pamela recalls,” Our parents were active volunteers, encouraged volunteer work, and especially supported education and the arts.”

The Bickfords spent summers on Jamestown for several decades becoming year-round residents upon Milton’s retirement in 1989. Milton had successfully grown a small family printing business into a national success, National Bickford Foremost, and was a well-known leader in the Providence business community. He was also an art lover, collector, and an expert in American Impressionism.

The beauty of Jamestown reminded him of the paintings he loved. In an interview with the Foundation, he stated, “It’s just so beautiful here.

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Harry L. Doran SPCA Endowment Fund

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love animals, particularly dogs,” Harry Doran stated in a 2004 interview with the Foundation. His animal companion at that time was Gus, a ten-year-old German shepherd. “I think the trick with dogs is that you have to give them a lot of love. Animals enrich our lives, but there’s so much cruelty to them,” he shared.

he started his own sales and manufacturing businesses. He operated Jewel Supply and Automatic Products in Providence until his retirement at age 66. “I really enjoyed being in business, but it’s completely changed. That’s why I got out. I used to do business on a handshake,” he recalled.

Harry died in 2006, but through a charitable remainder trust he established at the Foundation, he will forever be helping in the fight against animal cruelty. The terms of the trust were that after 15 years it would begin to benefit the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RISPCA), which “is charged with the sole purpose of protecting animal life in all situations that might endanger them.”

Although Harry and Marion both have died, the Doran name will forever be associated with the RISPCA and “helping those who cannot speak for themselves.”

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arjorie Hart retired as director of public relations for the American Lung Association in Rhode Island in 1977, after more than 40 years with the organization. Now, through a pooled income fund she established at the Foundation and designated to benefit the American Lung Association in Rhode Island, her commitment to the local Association will continue forever.

In a 1999 interview with the Foundation, Marjorie shared that she became active when a friend “harpooned me” to volunteer for what at the time was the TB Association. She later joined the staff and, through the years, served as acting director and as director of public relations, the latter for 21 years. After her retirement, she remained an active volunteer and an enlightened advocate.

Born in Nyack, NY in 1922, Harry attended the American Institute of Banking and worked in that field, as well as construction, before joining the Air Force at age 20. He attended navigator school and served during World War II as a navigator, bombardier, and meteorologist. He vividly recalled when his B-24 was shot down over Germany.

He and two other survivors were captured by the Germans; Harry spent nearly a year as a prisoner of war.

Marjorie explained, “The major enemy is smoking.

The (Association’s) campaign is winning, slowly.

Their slogan is ‘If you can’t breathe, nothing else matters,’ and you have to agree with that.”

After his release and return to the States, he reconnected with Marion, his future wife whom he had met at a dance when he was 18. Of their big band era courtship, Harry shared, “We had a good romance. We loved to dance, and we’d dance all night.”

During World War II, she joined the Office of War Information and was stationed in London. It was there that she met her future husband, James, who also worked for the Office of War Information.

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James S. and Marjorie W. Hart Fund They later relocated to Rhode Island where James had, prior to World War II, been chief political reporter for the Providence Journal-Bulletin, as well as executive secretary to Gov. William H. Vanderbilt.

James died in 1969.

In Rhode Island, Marjorie began her long involvement with what became the Lung Association. “As TB was conquered, we began to focus on other things,” she said, noting specifically the Lung Association’s expansion to include prevention of all respiratory disease, including emphysema, asthma, and other chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases.

Marjorie died in 2006 at the age of 92.

Born in Chicago, Marjorie grew up in Cleveland and attended the University of Michigan. She returned to Cleveland after graduation and obtained a job with the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, beginning a long career in communications.

The couple returned to the States following the war, settling first in New York City where they both worked for a now-closed public relations agency.

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Joseph E. Kochhan Fund

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wo organizations that were important to the late Joseph Kochhan, The First Baptist Church in Wickford and Hillsdale College, now are benefitting from his estate planning as designated recipients of a pooled income fund he established at the Rhode Island Foundation.

The church, which Joe and his wife, Charline, were members of for many years, also is benefitting from a fund Joe established earlier to honor his mother, the Susie Brown Kochhan Memorial Music Fund. In a 2000 interview with the Foundation, Joe explained, “I thought this might be a nice thing to do. In a small church such as the one I attend there’s never quite enough money to do special music programs.”

international relations departments. A veteran, he served in the Navy during both World War II and the Korean War. An active community member, Joe hosted radio shows at WRIU and through In-Sight Radio, was a driver for FISH (Friends in Service to Humanity), was active in the North Kingstown Rotary Club, and served on several boards, including South County Hospital. He was the founding president of Baptist Camps of RI, president of the Baptist Home of RI, and a member of the board of the American Baptist Churches of RI.

His support for Hillsdale College is based on it being privately funded. He explained, “Hillsdale College is a fine old liberal arts college in Michigan which prides itself in never accepting any federal money or grants and does not allow its students to receive any federal money, Pell grants, GI Bill money, loans, etc. Instead, it provides liberal scholarships from funds provided by friends of the college who share the belief that the federal government has no place in controlling the private education establishment.”

Born in Providence, Joe graduated from Classical High School and Northeastern University, the latter with a degree in business administration and accounting. He worked in the bus manufacturing business in Philadelphia, as well as with the former Nicholson File Company, before beginning a 40year tenure with Brown and Sharpe during which he worked in their finance, sales, marketing, and

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Robert E. & Ann M. Borah

Sheila Cooley, Esq. and Mark J. Fagan, MD

Maura A. Dowling

Ellen Borden

Timothy Corr

David A. Duffy

Karen S. Borger

Michael Costello

John R. Duhamel

Ruud and Laurie Bosman

Marianna L. Crawford

Neil G. Dunay and R. Darrell McIntire

Anonymous (58)

Sandra C. Bristol-Irvine

Michael & Kelly Cummings

Wayne K. & Bernice C. Durfee

Michael & Roberta Hazen Aaronson

Lee and Christine Brooks

Anthony & Christine D’Acchioli

John L. Dyer

Noreen Ackerman

Gian Brosco

Christine E. Dahlin

Marilyn G. Eanet

Ross and Renate Aker

Jane Ann Brown

Joanne M. Daly

Violet and Frank Eklof

William & Amabel Allen

Jeffrey A. Brown & Barbara Horovitz Brown

Peter S. and Anne Damon

Catherine English

William R. & Marlies H. Allen

James Buttrick

Bill and Tracy Daugherty

Linda Fain

Patty & Melvin Alperin

Steve J. Caminis

Karen A. Davie and Garrison A. Hull

Donald and Maia Farish

Berndt W. Anderson

Paul C. & Patricia B. Carlson

John C. Davis

Stephen Feinstein

Judith L. Anderson & Marcia Blair

Richard F. Carolan

Joseph and Gloria Dawson

Steven R. Fera and Kathe A. Jaret

Peri Ann Aptaker & Robert A. Lieberman

Robert J. and Mary Ann Greer Chase

John G. & Elizabeth A. De Primo

Sanford M. & Beverly A. Fern

Jason E. Archambault

Paul and Elizabeth Choquette

Andrea B. Decof

Heather and Ronald Florence

Stephen P. Archambault

Howard P. and Nancy Fisher Chudacoff

Helen Deines

Diane Fogarty

Barbara & Doug Ashby

The Honorable David N. Cicilline

Anthony & Grace Del Vecchio

Sarah F. Fogarty

James & Karin Aukerman

Mary H. Clark

Gilda L. Delmonico

Dennis W. Forget

Marilyn Baker

Mary L. Clark

Charles Denby II, M.D.

James A. and Beverly A. Forte

Michael and Wendy Baker

Marcia Clayton & William A. Maloney

James DeRentis

Robert and Wendy Fournier

Gloria Barlow

John W. and Lillian Clegg

David and Elaine DeSousa

Becky and Charlie Francis

Mary G. Barry

Sidney Clifford Jr.

Donna L. Dexter

Mary Frappier

Robert L.G. & Ruth L. Batchelor

Joel Cohen and Andrea Toon

Yanny & Dianna DiFebbo

Mr. & Mrs. Peter B. Freeman

Patricia A. and John M. Biasuzzi

Richard A. and Lois H. Cole

Giampiero & Leslie P. DiManna

Richard and Joanne Friday

Susan Marsh Blackburn

Reverend and Mrs. Thomas Conboy, Jr.

Stan Dimock

Fredric C. Friedman, Ed.D.

Raymond & Brenda Bolster, II

Robert B. & Ann F. Conner

Dorothy F. Donnelly, Ph.D.

Thomas E. Furey

David E. and Kara K. Borah

Gib and Diane Conover

David G. Doran, Jr.

Jane Fusco

1916 Society Members

We thank and recognize the members of our 1916 Society, individuals who have informed us of their plans to leave a legacy through a bequest or other future gift to the Foundation. Members listed as of 12/31/19. New members are in red.

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Thomas and Leslie Gardner

Tim and Kim Hebert

Stephanie Tower Keating

Louise S. Mauran Groton

Susan Garlington

Eric and Sarah Hertfelder

William and Dione Kenyon

Scott McAskill

Peter and Judy Garreffi

David and Carol Hevey

Henry P. Kniskern

Gail E. McCann & Stanley Lukasiewicz

Henry and Nancy Gauthier

Larry J. and Kay P. Hirsch

Harold J. Kushner

Lynda V. McCoy

Vera I. Gierke

Justin and Linda Holden

The Honorable James R. Langevin

Norman E. & Dorothy R. McCulloch

Arlene Golden Gilbert

Elizabeth Holochwost

Marie Langlois and John Loerke

Linda McGoldrick

Richard M.C. Glenn III and Mary Goodyear Glenn

Lynne E. Hoppin-Fazzi

Sally Lapides

Kathleen McKeough

Carol Golden & Stuart Einhorn

Jonathan and Pamela Houston

Patricia Lawlor, Ph.D.

William Lynn McKinney & Ronald D. Margolin

Lillian Golden

Kinnaird Howland

Margaret Nussbaum Lederer & Bertram M. Lederer

Cornelia M. McSheehy

Eleanor J. Goldstein

Meghan Hughes and Kimball Mayer

Margaret Goddard Leeson

Robert J. Meehan

Susan F. Gonsalves

Phyllis M. Huston

Dorothy Leonard

Debra Meunier

Donna Marie Goodrich

Lise Iwon

Stephen V. and Bettina H. Letcher

Terry A. Meyer

Geoffrey Gordon

Linda Jacobson and James Myers

Patricia and Curtis Ley

Gladys Miller

Robert J. Gormley

Elaine Jacques

Constance Lima

John W. Miller, Jr. and Emily Henderson Miller

Gary and Charleen Gosselin

C. Peter Jencks

Carolyn G. Longolucco

Dorothy Carol Mitchell

Richard and Ellen Gower

Mary M. Jennings

Dr. Deirdre V. Lovecky

Edward G. and Susan L. Montagna

Joya Weld Granbery-Hoyt

Elaine Jewer

Griselda F. Lyman and Duncan White

Heidi Keller Moon

Mary Grinavic

Maureen and Roger Johanson

James and Diane Lynch

Sandra Moyer

Suzanne Oringel Goldman Grossman

Carl G. and Kathryn A. Johnson

Brian and Kathleen MacLean

Ruth K. Mullen

Hope R. Gustafson

Dr. Larry A. and Cheryl M. Johnson

William and Susan Macy

Arthur Murphy

Kathleen Hagan

V. Rolf Johnson

Susan Maden

David and Marylu Nadeau

John E. & Janet S. Hall

Victoria Johnson

Edward and Kathleen Costello Malin

Dr. Martin C. Nager and Dr. Denise Shapiro

Ann-Marie Harrington

Betty Anne Johnston

Eunice Malkasian

Jane S. Nelson

Janet Hartman

Constance B.E. and Richard B. Jordan

Bhikhaji M. Maneckji

Bernard and Doris Nemtzow

David F. Haskell & Karen R. Haskell

Kevin E. Jordan, Ph.D.

Barbara Margolis

Robert C. Nyman

Donald P. Hayden

Simone P. Joyaux & Tom Ahern

Alita C. Marks

Judith Oliveira

Karin and Angus Hebb

Drs. Jeffrey S. and Basha Kaplan

Robert and Deborah Marro

Ruth Oppenheim

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Chad Orlowski and Carol Masson

Russell and Carla Ricci

Kathleen A. Simons

Doris M. Tucker

Robert & Lidia Oster

Derwent Jean Riding

Robert and Cynthia Sinclair

Janice Berchielli Tunney

Sandra Oster

Robert A. and Marcia S. Riesman

George & M. Patricia Sisson

Joann K. Turo

Joseph W. Pailthorpe

John and Liliana Risica

Robert H. Sloan, Jr. and Catherine B. Sloan

Robert B. and Virginia R. Urquhart

Elizabeth S. Palter, Ph.D.

James R. Risko

Eric and Peggy Smith

Richard Vangermeersch

Thomas and Erma Wood Peirce

Pablo & Diane Rodriguez

Mary Ann Sorrentino

Diana and Peter Vario

Robert Pella

Herman H. Rose

Raymond Soucy and Nancy Thompson

Victoria Veh

Ruth and Leonard Perfido

Barbara A. Rosen

Lillian Sparfven

Deborah A. Venator

Carol A. Peterson

Geraldine J. Roszkowski

James L. Spears

David and Doreen Verity

Richard and Margaret Philpott

John Rotondo, Jr.

Richard F. Staples, Jr. and Elizabeth B. Staples

Arlene Violet

Michael Pierce

James Rubovits

Dennis E. Stark

Mary Brooks Wall

Wells M. Pile and Marguerite Ofria Pile

Janice M. Ruggieri and Kathy S. Lerner

Linda A. Steere and Edward R. DiLuglio

Judith P. and Thomas W. Walsh

Stacie L. and Angelo R. Pizzi, Jr.

The Honorable Deborah Ruggiero

Neil Steinberg and Eugenia Shao

Jeremy S. and Edith B. Weinstein

Richard & Patricia Plotkin

Josephine Ruggiero and Helmut Reinhardt

Myriam E. Stettler

Howard S. & Elaine S. Weiss

Garry and Virginia Plunkett

Janet Marie Ryan

Ronald G. Stevens and Patricia E. Moore

Edward W. Whelan

Mary Ann Podolak

Sanford and Marian Sachs

Cynthia Stewart Reed

Nancy T. Whit

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred K. Potter, II

Donna and Michael M. Scalzi III

William J. and Judith D. Struck

Rob and Susan Wilson

Robert H. and Rebecca A. Preston

Albert M. & Ilse I. Schaler

Cornelia B. Sturgis

Edith B. Wislocki

Joanne Quinn

Barry & Elizabeth Schiller

Peter A. & Janice W. Sullivan

James J. and Lynn Ann Wojtyto

Paul and Tina Racine

Kenneth and Sheryl Schongold

James K. Sunshine

Richard and Kathleen Wong

Robert and Melisa Radoccia

Paul & Barbara Schurman

Meredith P. Swan

Kenneth & Dorothy Woodcock

Donna-Jean Rainville

Michael E. and Mary Schwartz

Donna Sweeney

Carol Hudson Young

Anthony J. Raponi

MaryAnn Scott

Judith Taton

Peter & Patricia Young

Ralph and Letty Raponi

Arthur J. Sepe, Jr.

Yarrow Moon Livingston Thorne

Laura Mason Zeisler

Walter Reed

Edwin F., Jr. and Martha Sherman

Harle Tinney

P.E. Gay and Leslie Alan Regenbogen

Cheryl Silva-Feeney

Nancy E. Tripp

Nicholas E. and Rebecca Reynolds

Marjorie Simmons

Denise Tucker

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Boys and Girls Clubs of Northern RI Walter S. Schwaner Sr. Memorial Scholarship Fund

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he Schwaner family has been involved with Boys and Girls Clubs since 1956 when Walter S. Schwaner, Sr. was active in the formation of what was then the Cumberland Boys Club. He served as president of the Club in 1969 and 1970 and was, according to a 2014 article in the Valley Breeze, “instrumental” in the building of the Club’s swimming pool.

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His son, Walter S. Schwaner, Jr., continued in his father’s footsteps, serving as president and trustee of the re-named Boys & Girls Club of CumberlandLincoln, as well as a coach in the baseball league.

Although both father and son have since died — Walter Sr. in 1969 and Walter Jr. in 2019 — the Schwaner family name will forever be associated with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Northern RI (BGCNRI), which was formed in 2018 with the merger of the Boys & Girls Club of CumberlandLincoln and the Boys and Girls Club of Woonsocket.

The Club and Schwaner family have, since shortly after Walter Sr.’s death, awarded the Walter S. Schwaner Sr. Memorial Scholarship to members of the Club. The establishment of this endowment assures that Walter Sr.’s legacy will continue in perpetuity.

Gary Rebelo, chief executive officer of BGCNRI, explains, “The money was sitting in a bank account earning zero interest. Eventually (through the awarding of annual scholarships), it would go away.

Putting the money in a fund at the Foundation will continue Walter Schwaner, Sr.’s legacy indefinitely.

The Rhode Island Foundation does so much for so many, and it’s great to be part of that.”

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He continues, “My goal is to reinvigorate the scholarship and to get more applicants. Every Club member who’s graduating from high school and going on to college should apply for the scholarship.”

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Northern Rhode Island “exists to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.” This scholarship fund is one of many ways the Club works to fulfill its mission.

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Krista Weller Burns Scholarship Fund for the Arts

Children’s Shelter of Blackstone Valley Fund

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F

bright light! Those are the words that Evelyn Weller says capture the essence of their daughter, Krista Weller Burns, who died in 2010 at the age of 36. "We're honoring her request to be remembered with joy. She had a bold passion for life and believed she could help create a better world," Evelyn explains.

or nearly 40 years, the Pawtucket-based Children’s Shelter of Blackstone Valley provided emergency shelter for children up to 12 years of age.

“We always tried to provide a safe, homelike environment. Most of the children were victims of abuse, but some just had unlucky situations,” states Daniel Andrews, president of the Shelter’s board of directors.

Krista's early efforts to create a better world were through politics, graduating from George Washington University with a degree in political science. At the age of 24, Krista was elected to the Exeter town council and worked on significant local and state political campaigns and initiatives.

He shares the story of one young girl who was placed at the eightbed shelter. Her mother had died when the girl was five and her grandmother just two years later. With no other family, she was placed at the Shelter. “There were so many heartbreaking stories,” Daniel relates.

Her career took a dramatic turn when, Evelyn explains, "She finally could no longer contain her passion to follow her artistic dreams." Krista's dad, Jeff, continues, "She packed her bags and moved to New York City to pursue a career in performance and screenwriting."

Her parents share that Krista was driven to succeed in the arts and had to work full time to support her dream, despite her diagnosis of cancer. "She believed she could make an impact through her art, that she could create joy by helping and inspiring others. Krista was kind-hearted and giving," Evelyn shares.

Following Krista's passing, Evelyn and Jeff, along with her siblings, Scott and Amber, established the Krista Weller Burns Foundation to provide scholarships to support budding artists.

Fundraising includes a garden on the family farm in Exeter where they grow and sell sunflowers.

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To date, Krista’s Foundation has awarded 55 scholarships to Rhode Island seniors. "We love that Krista's dream in the arts is reflected in the dreams of other talented young people. We're passing the torch to keep her memory and the arts alive," Evelyn says.

"This fund is a perpetual sunflower garden to honor Krista's spirit. By working with the Rhode Island Foundation, we are confident that long after we can no longer physically sow the seeds, the garden will still grow, and Krista's desire to make the world a better place will live on," Jeff concludes.

“We had a great staff, including clinicians and social workers. We were funded by the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF), and the board raised money to buy extra things for the children,” Daniel says. But as DCYF moved to placing children in foster homes rather than shelters, the agency ended its contract with the Shelter in late 2017.

“We’d had an unblemished record since 1979,” Daniel notes proudly.

He says the board considered donating its assets, largely from the sale of the Shelter, to local organizations with similar missions. But after hearing a Foundation staff member speak at a Pawtucket Lions Club meeting, he took the idea of partnering with the Foundation back to the Shelter’s board members.

“We agreed it sounded interesting. We embraced the idea for the money to grow and to be used for the benefit of children forever. We like that continuity and that the goals of the shelter will continue to be fulfilled. We always served the most vulnerable children,” Daniel explains.

In keeping with the Shelter’s mission, this field of interest fund will be used for the support of children under the age of thirteen.

Of his chance encounter with the Foundation, Daniel says, “It was that exposure; it opened my eyes.

The Rhode Island Foundation is a very reputable foundation, has community leaders on its board, and has great ethics. The trust we have in the Foundation made starting this fund a very easy decision for us.”

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Classical Association of New England Endowment Fund

Coach PZs Scholarship Fund

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amily is a word that you will hear when the Pizzis are around. “We talk about family… our team family, our EPHS family, our extended East Providence community family,” Stacie and Angelo R. Pizzi, Jr. say of their commitment to students at East Providence High School where Angelo has taught and coached for the past 12 years, and Stacie has been a paraprofessional for five years. The couple has provided students with food, snacks, clothing, school supplies, money, backpacks, equipment and gear, and more through the years.

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ounded in 1906, the Classical Association of New England (CANE) is the third oldest Classics organization in the country, according to Ruth Breindel, a 35-year CANE member and its current treasurer. The Association’s mission statement indicates its purpose is “to foster the study of the classical world through the association’s many activities and resources.”

Ruth explains that on a practical level, “We try to keep the teaching of Latin alive in the schools. It’s always been considered an elite language, but it’s really not. To me, the reason to take Latin is that it’s fun. You get a view into a world that no longer exists. It’s a window to the past that’s still relevant today,” states Ruth, who taught Latin and Greek at Moses Brown School for 30 years prior to her retirement in 2015.

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The Association’s approximately 450 members, representing all six New England states, are active and retired college, high school, and middle school teachers, as well as graduate and undergraduate students. The Association sponsors the CANE Summer Institute which in 2020 will be held at Brown University, workshops, its annual meeting, and an annual writing contest for middle school, high school, and college students. CANE also awards scholarships both for teachers and students, provides funding for educational travel and research, and honors individuals for distinguished service to the organization and to the Classics in New England.

“We’re doing a good job at what we do, and it’s an important job. We’re trying to do more outreach,” Ruth says, citing a library program they organized and the possibility of a lecture series.

Noting she was aware of the Rhode Island Foundation through her involvement with the Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association, Ruth says, “By creating an endowment fund at the Foundation, CANE members know our money will be protected and preserved.”

Now, with the establishment of the Coach PZs Scholarship Fund, they will provide assistance to EPHS graduating seniors with the costs of higher education. The Coach PZs (as their athletes know them) Scholarship will be awarded annually to students who have demonstrated excellence as student athletes.

“We want to honor students who competently balance academics, athletics, community service, and personal affairs with strong work ethic, persistence, and intellectual integrity,” Angelo explains.

A native of New Jersey, Stacie earned her bachelor’s degree in general business administration from the University of Rhode Island. A three-season varsity athlete – soccer, basketball, and track -- she coaches varsity girls’ soccer and varsity girls’ lacrosse.

A Rhode Island native, Angelo earned an undergraduate degree in business management from Providence College and master’s degrees in criminal justice from Anna Maria College in Paxton, MA, and in education from Johnson & Wales

University. He teaches in EPHS’s special services department and coaches (or has coached) varsity boys’ lacrosse, varsity girls’ soccer, varsity football, freshmen boys’ basketball, and middle school boys’ basketball.

“He is loud, animated, passionate, and he goes beyond what you’re expected to do as a coach,” says his wife Stacie. Angelo returns the compliment by adding, “Stacie is the mom to many young ladies.

They turn to her for life advice just as much as athletics. ” Angelo learned about the Rhode Island Foundation through his lawyer. “Before that, the thought of having a scholarship fund never occurred to me at all,” he says of what now will be a fitting tribute for two long-time East Providence educators/coaches.

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Frederick S. Crisafulli MD Scholarship Fund

“This really is the perfect thing for Fred. If this helps even one student a year, it's a wonderful legacy.”

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e was in practice for 40 years and took care of generations of families,” shares Bettina Crisafulli of her husband, Frederick S. Crisafulli, MD, who died in 2019 at the age of 76. She adds: “He helped thousands of Rhode Islanders and cherished every moment of it.”

Through this scholarship fund, established by his family, friends, and former patients, Dr. Crisafulli’s legacy of caring for others will continue in perpetuity.

Designated for the Rhode Island College Foundation, the fund will benefit qualified RIC students studying Italian and/or those pursuing a career as a medical professional.

Born and raised in New York, Dr. Crisafulli was a graduate of NYU Medical School. As he and two colleagues completed their residencies, they decided to go into practice together. “They got out a map and picked out cities on the East coast where they thought they might like to practice,” Bettina recalls, noting they contacted physicians they knew at The Miriam Hospital and were encouraged to visit.

The young doctors were sold on Rhode Island, completed fellowships at The Miriam, and went into practice together. It was the beginning of Dr. Crisafulli’s 40-year career, from which he retired in 2013.

A clinical professor at Brown University, Dr. Crisafulli’s many professional achievements included serving as president of the medical staff at The Miriam and of Health Care Review.

“He was not only a physician, he was a healer. He had a thirst for knowledge. Italian became one of

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the loves of his life and he studied it for 25 years. He truly was a Renaissance man. He knew so much about everything. He had a great sense of humor, was a talented musician, and loved his family. He was the most genuine, thoughtful, interactive person you could ever meet. People would always stop by our house to ask for his advice,” Bettina says.

— Bettina Crisafulli Frederick S. Crisafulli MD Scholarship Fund

She concludes, “Our lifelong friend, David Hirsch (former Foundation board member and chair) told us about the Foundation. This really is the perfect thing for Fred. If this helps even one student a year, it’s a wonderful legacy.”

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DeBare Family Fund

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come from a family with a strong commitment to social justice, philanthropy, and community,” states Deborah DeBare.

That commitment is a way of life for Deb, who has dedicated her career to social justice issues and to community service. Now, through this donor advised fund, philanthropy becomes a continuation of her life work.

Born and raised in New York City, Deb came to Rhode Island as a student at Brown University.

She majored in American Civilization with a focus on women’s studies and U.S. race relations, and became involved in feminist activism. Taking a year off from her studies, she volunteered with the National Organization for Women on its work toward ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Although the effort was not successful, it was a learning experience for Deb. “I learned about the power of grassroots organizing,” she explains.

the Rhode Island Department of Mental Health, as executive director of the Domestic Violence Resource Center of South County, and as executive director of the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the latter for 22 years. In 2018, she joined the National Network to End Domestic Violence as senior deputy director.

As part of her work, Deb conducts trainings on how one’s work is part of their legacy. This fund is another element of Deb’s legacy. “This fund can continue my vision, and inspire Mariana (her daughter) and her generation to work toward equality for all people.”

Norman S. Dyer Memorial Fund

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ohn Lyman Dyer established this fund, designated for the Cranston Public Library Association, “to honor the uncle I never knew.”

Of his Uncle Norman who died tragically at the age of 11, John relates, “Norman very much enjoyed sporting activities. On January 30, 1924 he left the house about 9 a.m. to go skating. He did not return that afternoon, and his parents began to worry. After speaking with some of

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John continues, “Police later found a polo (hockey) stick with initials N.D. carved on it. The stick was found on the ice at the east bank of the pond. The next day, the police dragged the pond for several hours before the body was recovered.”

Norman was survived by his parents, George and Annie, and his brothers George and Raymond, the latter being John’s father.

She returned to Brown to complete her studies, while also volunteering at Sojourner House, which works to end domestic and sexual violence. Her work there as the office manager made her aware of where she wanted to focus her energies. “You have to be open to what your passion is and explore different things. I felt my strength was in management and policy work.”

She returned to school, earning a master’s degree in management of human services from Brandeis University. She worked as a policy specialist at

“Norman made two fatal mistakes that day: skating on thin ice where there had recently been an ice cutting operation and skating alone,” John states, explaining that in that era companies cut ice from ponds and stored it in ice houses, insulated with sawdust or hay, for use during the summer months. It is believed that Norman fell into one of those holes in the ice.

Norman’s friends, his father contacted the police.

Norman was seen up to 1 p.m. on Spectacle Pond, Cranston. He was wearing a brown cap, blue coat, black stockings, tan shoes, bluish grey striped blouse, and had skates.

“This loss is felt today by me and is the reason for the Rhode Island Foundation fund in his name,” John explains. “I was thinking about what I could do for the City of Cranston (where members of the Dyer family have lived since John’s great-grandfather emigrated from England to the United States in 1871). I thought of the library because of the enjoyment I get reading nonfiction. I love to learn about what I do not yet know especially historical events and biographies. I hope Norman would have been pleased with this remembrance in his name. I do not want this young boy to be forgotten.”

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William “Bill” Fullaway Family Fund

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e’re very concerned for people who have experienced blatant discrimination. GLBTQ people are often marginalized, ostracized, and verbally and physically attacked. We see the Rhode Island Foundation’s Equity Action as a strong entity that can fund projects to address these concerns and work to create a more inclusive environment for GLBTQ people,” state Greta Cohen and Maryanne (Mac) Cunningham to explain the fund they established to support the grantmaking of the Equity Action Fund.

restling played an important role throughout Bill Fullaway’s life. “He felt wrestling kept him out of trouble when he was young. His parents were very young and divorced when he was seven; he moved around a lot and was starting to hang out with the wrong crowd. He needed structure and found it through wrestling in school,” explains Marilyn Bok, his mother-in-law.

As an adult, Bill became the wrestling coach who mentored youth and helped them stay on track for a productive life. For the four years prior to his untimely death in June of 2019 at age 55, Bill was active with Beat the Streets Providence, “a local nonprofit committed to inspiring urban youth for success in school and life through the vehicle of coeducational wrestling.”

The after-school program, Marilyn states, “was fulfilling a need for Bill to give back, as well as for the kids. He felt he could make a difference.”

A tribute to Bill on the Beat the Streets’ website reads, in part, “”Bill was a long time coach of Esek Hopkins Middle School and close member of our Beat the Streets Providence family...His motto, ‘Just because you come from a difficult environment does not mean you must stay there,’ can resonate with many of us...He related to our students personally and saw a young version of himself in each one.”

Marilyn shares that Bill also was passionate about sailing and his family, which included his wife Eileen and their three daughters, Jordyn, Adeline, and Gwyneth. He regularly volunteered as a coach and

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Greta & Mac Esprit Fund

team manager for many soccer and lacrosse teams in which his daughters participated.

Of this permanent endowment, designated for Beat the Streets Providence, Marilyn explains, “We wanted to do something for Bill and for his favorite charity. I started and ran a small community foundation in northern Pennsylvania, so I know the value of a fund and what it can do for an organization over the years. I like to think long term.”

Indeed, this fund will forever link Bill Fullaway’s name with the organization to which he gave so much.

Mac’s background is in student affairs, specifically staff development, as well as in counseling and finance. She has worked and taught finance and real estate courses at numerous colleges and universities, including the University of Rhode Island.

Mac coached an award-winning women’s basketball team at Dickinson College and continued her coaching of the women’s team at URI. She and Greta created Esprit Enterprises, a real estate partnership, through which they have managed more than 25 low-income rental units for adults for over a quarter of a century. Mac also lectures throughout New England on personal finance, retirement planning, and identity theft, and has developed and maintains her own personal financial planning company.

Greta was a professor of sport sociology and women’s studies at the University of Rhode Island.

During her 36-year tenure, she also coached the women’s fencing team and was the artistic director for the URI Dance Company. Her research, publications, and lectures throughout the U.S. earned her numerous awards and inductions into multiple halls of fame. She enjoys extensive backpacking, climbing, kayaking, Master Gardener projects, and her work as a landscape designer.

Greta and Mac volunteer for Waterfire Providence, the Jonnycake Center, the South County Balloon Festival, and the Adopt-a-Plot program in South Kingstown.

Greta learned about the Foundation as chair of the board of trustees for the Master Gardener Foundation when it established an organization endowment. In 2015, Greta and Mac established their first fund at the Foundation. The Greta & Mac Fund is donor advised. Through it, they support projects dealing with the environment, girls and women’s sports, and children with special needs.

With this new fund, they explain, “We’re comfortable that the money will address the concerns we have for the GLBTQ communities.”

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Neil J. Houston, Jr. Memorial Endowment Fund

“There was no other place we wanted to go. With the Foundation, we get both credibility and enormous resources.”

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hroughout his career, Neil J. Houston, Jr. advocated for criminal justice reform. With the establishment of this organization endowment by the Justice Assistance, his name will forever be associated with that advocacy work.

Born in Rhode Island, Neil was a 1963 graduate of LaSalle Academy and a 1967 graduate of Harvard University. A stand-out athlete at both institutions, he played two years of professional baseball with the Detroit Tigers, before returning to Boston to begin his work as a justice reformer.

At the time of his untimely death in 1987, Neil was president of two Boston-based organizations, the Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation, which funds reforms of the criminal justice system, and the Frederick E. Weber Charities Corp., a nonprofit that helps individuals in need.

criminal justice profession and the public interest.

In 1988, the year following Neil’s death, it was renamed the Neil J. Houston, Jr. Memorial Award.

On the occasion of Neil’s 50th Harvard class reunion, Jonathan sent a letter to his brother’s former classmates to gain support for this permanent endowment. “We were stunned by the response, and what was even better were the notes I received,” Jonathan shares.

Of the decision to establish the endowment at the Foundation, Jonathan states, “There was no other place we wanted to go. With the Foundation, we get both credibility and enormous resources.”

“Neil was always someone who was a high achiever.

He accomplished more in 15 years than what most people could accomplish in multiple lifetimes,” states Jonathan Houston, president & CEO of Justice Assistance, noting that his older brother founded the nation’s first mediation program, the first day reporting center, and the first facility to house incarcerated, pregnant inmates.

“It was my brother who felt I belonged in this field and really got me into it,” Jonathan relates. “And for Justice Assistance’s first 10 years, he was a very involved, unpaid consultant. He wrote our training program which we still follow to this day.”

Justice Assistance initiated an annual award in 1981 to honor individuals who have demonstrated dedication, service, and citizen contributions to the

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Michael T. Keefe Youth Aviation Fund

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“Mike was an airport rat,” Paula Keefe recalls fondly of her son whose untimely death at 35 followed a lifetime filled with a passion for flying.

They raised their four daughters in the Barrington schools and now Maggie, Tricia, Grace, and Ginny are all in their twenties and college graduates.

“We are incredibly blessed to have four healthy daughters, who are strong and independent," states Beth Ann. “Yet we know there are many parents who are equally ambitious for their own children.

These parents want the same things we wanted for our children and unfortunately they are facing really difficult life circumstances,” she adds.

As a child, Michael went with his family to North Central State Airport and T.F. Green Airport to watch planes land and take off. At 12, he told his parents he was interested in flying. “Everything Mike did, he was all in and was serious about. He had an entrepreneurial spirit and was mature beyond his years,” Paula shares.

Michael started flying at 14 and, on his sixteenth birthday, made his first solo flight. As a teenager, he was a member of the the Rhode Island Civil Air Patrol, began annual attendance at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, and graduated from the National Civil Air Patrol’s Blue Beret Program.

By the time he graduated from Cumberland High School in 2002, Michael was a certified flight instructor. He continued his education at EmbryRiddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL, graduating in three years with a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical science.

His professional career included positions in sales, flight operations, and flight instruction with Cirrus Aircraft and later with Aerista. He also was president of Kavu Enterprises, LLC, providing flight instruction and piloting services.

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skiing, water sports, rock climbing, mountain biking, and cycling.

She says that her experience with the Rhode Island Foundation with her late husband’s fund led her to partner with the Foundation to continue Michael’s legacy. This fund is designated for the EAA Aviation Foundation Inc. for scholarships for student participants in aviation camp.

“One of Mike’s colleagues at Aerista had attended the aviation camp and said it changed his life.

He knew after the camp that he wanted to become a pilot. We hope some of the campers who receive scholarships also will be inspired, will persevere, and will make contributions to aviation,” Paula concludes.

Dan was born in Brooklyn, NY. He earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his MBA from Fordham University. Dan began his career with Tishman Construction Corporation where he worked his way up to chief executive. Dan has overseen the construction of many large construction projects around the world, including the rebuilding of the World Trade Center in New York.

Beth Ann was raised in Barrington. A graduate of Barrington High School, she earned a bachelor of arts degree from Providence College and a master of science from Rhode Island College. Beth Ann’s professional background is in healthcare public relations. She has worked as a consultant for healthcare facilities throughout New England and in New York. When her daughters were born she established McQuade Consulting, a public relations/ marketing firm.

Dan is a member of the board of directors for both the US Green Building Council and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Beth Ann is on the board of directors of the Ronald McDonald House in New York.

Dan and Beth Ann have been married 30 years.

They divide their time between New York and Rhode Island. “Yet we always consider Rhode Island to be our home,” says Dan.

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Newport County Development Council Fund

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s the Newport County Chamber of Commerce prepares to celebrate its centennial in 2020, its board of directors and staff are looking to the future as well as the past. “We asked ourselves, ‘What can we do to ensure we’re around for another 100 years?’ An endowment is a step in that direction. All the stars kind of aligned,” explains Erin DonovanBoyle, executive director of the Chamber and of its 501(c)(3) arm, the Newport County Development Council (NCDC).

ertrude H. Parkhurst dedicated her life to nursing, serving for more than 10 years in the United States Army Nurse Corps during the Korean War, at an Army hospital in Germany, and at hospitals around the United States, including in Rhode Island at The Miriam Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital, the latter from which she retired.

Her commitment to the nursing profession did not end with her retirement. Gertrude, who died in February of 2019 at age 93, left a bequest to the Nursing Foundation of Rhode Island. The Nursing Foundation, which “promotes nursing in charitable, educational, and scientific ways,” used the funds to establish this permanent endowment in Gertrude’s name.

The alignment of stars involved securing funding to establish the organization endowment, a feat that was accomplished with proceeds of the sale of the Chamber’s former building. “We already were heavily involved with the renovation of the former Sheffield School, and it just made sense that our offices would be there,” Erin says, noting that they were the first tenant of the building on Broadway in Newport’s north end.

The renovation by NCDC, in partnership with the City of Newport and the Economic Development Foundation of Rhode Island, resulted in Innovate Newport, which is promoted as a technology incubator and co-work facility. Innovate Newport is well-aligned with NCDC’s mission to assist the Chamber “in identifying, developing, operating, funding, and supporting projects that stimulate commerce and trade in Newport County.”

Also a major project of the NCDC, Erin shares, is Connect Greater Newport, another of the Chamber’s economic development programs that is focused on the growth of existing Newport businesses and in attracting new business to the area.

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“The endowment will support our efforts to increase community and economic development for the greater Newport region which includes the nine communities of Newport County and Bristol County.

And it just made sense for us to partner with the Rhode Island Foundation. Our missions are so aligned, and working with another nonprofit makes sense to us,” Erin explains.

As they look to the future, Erin says of the endowment, “It’s an absolute needed asset for the community. It will enable the Chamber to have a reliable source of funding for valuable programming, impacting members and the community in perpetuity.”

In a letter advising the Nursing Foundation of the bequest, Gertrude’s family (her sister, Jane Richards, and her nieces and nephews) wrote, “Trudy was a hard-working and well-educated woman. She devoted her career to caring for others as a nurse and nursing administrator... She generously supported medical research and issues to make the world of health care a better place.”

Jeanne Sherman, vice president of the Nursing Foundation, recalls, “Gertrude was a very quiet person, but she and Doris Berry (whom she served with at The Miriam Hospital) were troopers in promoting nursing and nursing education.”

Born in Portsmouth, NH, Gertrude was a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, Yale University School of Nursing, and Boston University School of Nursing, the latter where she earned a master’s degree in nursing administration.

“Memorials that have been established have been wonderful support for the Nursing Foundation.

We have a long history of people providing support,” explains Mary Louise Palm, the Nursing Foundation’s treasurer.

Of their decision to establish the fund at the Rhode Island Foundation, Trudy Mulvey, immediate past president, states, “We felt because you have helped us so much (through administration of the Myriam Stettler, RN Nursing Scholarship Fund which also is designated for the Nursing Foundation) that any more money we might get, we’d give to the Foundation. We’re nursing experts, not financial experts. We want to reap the returns the Foundation is able to obtain.”

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Rita A. Pratt Memorial Fund

Providence Art Club Endowment Fund

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estled on Providence’s historic College Hill and overlooking the First Baptist Church in Providence is the Providence Art Club. The green door of the Club House – one of four buildings that also house studios and galleries – provides a welcoming entry for members and non-members alike. “When you enter through the green door, you feel such calm and warmth. Artists and patrons alike feel at home here,” states Nancy GaucherThomas, Club president.

“Our galleries are open to the public, and there’s always someone here who will give you a tour,” continues Dan Mechnig, former Club president.

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ita Pratt devoted her life to the spiritual,

emotional, and intellectual development of young people,” shares Donna D’Aloia, the fund’s creator. As the director of pastoral services for 35 years at St. Raphael Academy in Pawtucket, “she created a positive and welcoming environment that invited students to face their personal challenges by understanding and developing a clear understanding of their values.”

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who had direct contact with students was indeed an educator, leader, and mentor for our future generations, she knew too well that constantly giving of oneself without continued growth and development could lead to the crisis we see today.”

The Rita A. Pratt Memorial Fund honors Rita’s memory, and the plans for its granting include organizations and programs that will support personal and professional development of educators.

Founded in 1880 to exist “for art culture,” the Providence Art Club is the oldest art club in the country founded by men and women, with six of the 16 founding members being women, according to Gail Ginnetty, chair of the Club’s development committee.

Now boasting more than 600 members, about half of whom are artists and half patrons, the Club offers a variety of classes and social activities, including dinners and lectures, to its members.

“The majority of classes are painting; however, also offered are art history, photography, printmaking, and more. Classes are taught by Club artist

members and artists from across the country,” Nancy shares.

She continues, “We also provide community outreach. More than 60 people attended a recent breakfast and tour of the Club. People were amazed. They live right around the corner, but just then learned that this historic gem has so much to offer culturally.”

The Club is celebrating its 140th anniversary this year with many events open to the public. “We want the community to know more about us,” Nancy explains, noting that planned exhibitions, receptions, and a series of family activities focus on the theme, “Art, Education, and Learning.”

Of this endowment, she says, “With everything the Art Club currently is doing, it’s just time.

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Providence Lions Scholarship Fund

“We want this scholarship to continue in perpetuity.

We thought this (establishing the Fund at the Foundation) was a good way to do it.”

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rovidence Lions Club members proudly state that they have been “serving the community of Providence since 1961.” One of their longtime acts of service has been the awarding of an annual scholarship to a graduating Providence high school senior. Of the scholarship’s origin, Luis DelRio, a Club member, states, “Members just thought it was a good thing to do, and in keeping with what Lionism is all about”.

In 2019, members thought it a good idea to transfer their funds from a low interest bearing account to the Rhode Island Foundation. Luis notes he, along with fellow Lion Michael Reyes, became familiar with the Foundation as members of the advisory committee for the Sergeant Cornel Young Jr. Scholarship Fund. He explains, “Members said, ‘Why not explore if the Rhode Island Foundation will administer the funds? The Foundation is doing good work with the Cornel Young Fund. Perhaps they can help us, too.’

Earle Scharff, Club president, continues, “We want to honor the scholarship winners, and we want this scholarship to continue in perpetuity. We thought this (establishing the Fund at the Foundation) was a good way to do it.”

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help with hunger, including delivering food baskets at Thanksgiving. We’ve given major support to the Ronald McDonald House. Our motto is ‘Where there’s a need, there’s a Lion’.”

The Providence Lions Club is one of 47,000 Clubs worldwide; one of 32 in Rhode Island. All are “on a mission to serve.”

The need for scholarship assistance for Providence students to attend higher education is something the Providence Lions Club has helped to fulfill for almost 30 years. With this Fund, designated for the Providence School Department, they will continue to support graduating seniors “who have displayed outstanding achievement in academics, extracurricular/employment activities, and community service.”

“Services for the blind and visually-impaired are our number one charity, but Lions has taken on many causes. The latest is diabetes,” Luis says, with Earle adding, “We help with the environment. We

“We have a lot of fun, and we like to think we make a difference,” Luis says. Scholarships from the Fund should indeed make a difference to its student recipients and their families.

— Earle Scharff, Providence Lions Scholarship Fund

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Ross Family Fund

Alan R. Rote, MD Fund

Mark is a graduate of Cranston High School East (CHSE), the University of Rhode Island (URI), and the University of Michigan, the latter where he earned an MBA. He worked for one year for Proctor & Gamble before joining the family business in 1967. He also served six years with the Rhode Island Air National Guard following his return to Rhode Island.

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e’re Rhode Islanders. This will always be our home, and if there’s something we can do to help people have a better life, we want to do it,” says Donna Ross of her and her husband Mark’s decision to establish an endowment at the Foundation.

“I’ve read very good things about the Foundation and the funds it has dispersed to worthy nonprofits through the years,” Mark continues.

The Ross name is well-known in Rhode Island — and beyond — as the first half of Rhode Island-based Ross-Simons. The company was founded in 1952

by Mark’s father, Sidney Ross, and Phil Simons.

From one jewelry store on Westminster Street in Providence, the company has grown to include not only brick and mortar stores, but also robust catalog and online sales.

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Ross-Simons isn’t just where Mark built a 35-year career, it’s also where he met his future wife. A graduate of Cranston High School West and what today is the Community College of Rhode Island, Donna earned a degree in social work at Florida International University. After returning to Rhode Island and while looking for a position in her field, Donna began working at Ross-Simons.

The couple later married and had two sons, Jared and Seth. The Ross' are active in the community, especially with organizations for which Mark serves or has served on the board, including St. Andrew’s School, URI Hillel, Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island, and the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. In addition, Donna started and led for many years a support group for women with breast cancer.

The couple also established scholarships at both CHSE and URI. “We just feel that giving back is what we’re supposed to do. It’s the way we were raised,” Mark concludes.

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lan Rote, MD, had a 40-year career as a urologist. Now retired, he has created a living legacy for helping people in need and preserving birds and our environment.

Raised in Boston and Brockton, Alan graduated from Harvard College and SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. His surgery and urology residency was completed at Boston City Hospital and Lahey Clinic. He also completed two years of service with the U.S. Navy.

After 12 years in a solo urology practice in Brattleboro VT, where his two children were raised, Alan came to Rhode Island in 1990 to join Rhode Island Group Health Association, which evolved into Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. “Practicing in the HMO environment was a very effective way to deliver quality and economical care to my patients,” Alan shares. He completed his urology career in 2016 after 12 years with Lahey Clinic.

He explains that the Alan R. Rote, MD Fund was created to “help combat the tragedy of hungry, homeless, and under-educated people in a country as rich as ours. The Rhode Island Community Food Bank and the United Way of Rhode Island are doing wonderful work to help remedy these problems.” Alan’s interests in birding, bird photography, and the environment led him to select the Audubon Society of Rhode Island for its mission “...to protect birds, other wildlife and their habitat through conservation, education and advocacy for the benefit of people and all living things.”

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Saul A. Silverman Endowment Fund of IODA

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his organization endowment, established by the International Organization Development Association (IODA), honors the late Saul A. Silverman, a marriage and family therapist for more than 40 years.

inston Churchill once said, ‘We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.’ That quote stuck with me and I believe it’s true,” Arthur Solomon says of his motivation to give back to the community.

A native of Haverhill, MA, Saul earned a degree from Harvard Law School and practiced law for several years before pursuing a keen interest in counseling and change. He earned a doctorate in marriage and family studies at Florida State University following his attendance at the first T-Group.

He then developed a group practice, Silverman & Associates Inc., which initially was in Massachusetts, then expanded to include offices in New Hampshire and Rhode Island. Saul also developed a special model for Family Life Education at the University of Rhode Island’s Cooperative Extension Program.

“Dad was very active in Rhode island, both working directly with clients and in training therapists and change agents in the state,” explains one of his sons, Marc, a member and former president of IODA. He shares that his father developed several “universal principles for change agents” including his overall summation which was to: “Enhance my dignity and yours through rational process and dialogue.”

Marc explains, “My Dad followed his passion to become a healer and change agent. He was an avid believer that change started with one’s self and that there was nothing as helpful as good feedback.”

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Solomon Charitable Fund

Born and raised in New Haven, CT, Art first came to Providence as a student at Brown University. His studies later took him to Trinity College and finally Harvard University, the latter where he earned a Ph.D. in economics.

Among his career highlights, Art was a tenured professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and held executive positions with the Berkshire Group, Fannie Mae, Drexel Burnham Lambert, and Lazard Freres before co-founding the DSF Group, a real estate development and investment firm with offices in Boston and Washington, DC, in 2000.

Michelle de Bruyn, IODA president and an Endowment Committee member from South Africa, notes that the organization includes members from more than 50 countries and “is somewhere we all connect, exchange ideas, and learn from each other.”

Of this endowment, Michelle relates, “We want to recognize people who are working in the field of OD, who are developing new theories and innovative tools that create change and have a meaningful impact on conflict resolution.”

Marc shares, “The Foundation is a perfect home for our endowment. It unites a recognition of Saul’s innovative work in Rhode Island with the Rhode Island Foundation’s clear success in handling endowments and improving community.”

He moved back to Providence in 2005. “Coming back to Rhode Island, I saw what an incredible job Rhode Island Foundation does for the state.

I’m very impressed with the Foundation’s overall strategy and support of economic development, education, and health care.”

Now a member of the Foundation’s impact investment committee, he continues, “I see firsthand the dedication, intelligence, and commitment of the staff.”

Art is active with Trinity Rep, where he currently is vice-chair of the board of trustees, and with the Lifelong Learning Institute at Florida Atlantic University, where he is vice president of the advisory board. He and his wife, Sally Lapides, are avid supporters of numerous Rhode Island nonprofit organizations.

Among his passions is baseball. He currently owns the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, and his three adult children own the Hartford Yard Goats. Of the Double-A teams, he explains, “It’s affordable family entertainment, and it’s fun.” It also provides another way for Art to give back to the community; the Fisher Cats Foundation (of which Art is chairman of the board) supports hundreds of nonprofits, with a focus on the Children’s Hospital at DartmouthHitchcock and annually provides a dozen college scholarships.

This newly-established Solomon Family Fund at the Rhode Island Foundation will allow Art to continue his long-standing belief in “making a life by what he gives.”

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Southern Rhode Island Volunteers Fund

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n fulfilling its mission of providing service to others, the Wakefield Rotary Charitable Foundation (WRCF) assists the Wakefield Rotary Club in its support of both local and international causes that range from food banks to scholarships and from resources for the socio-economically disadvantaged to the eradication of polio around the world.

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hey deliver meals to seniors, assist with trail maintenance, mentor students, and serve as docents. These are just a few of the activities performed by some 600 volunteers with Southern Rhode Island Volunteers (SRIV).

Founded in 1980 as Seniors Helping Others, SRIV now serves the southern third of Rhode Island in its mission “to enhance lives by inspiring, creating, and supporting a lifelong culture of service through our volunteer members and affiliates across Southern Rhode Island.”

“Our Wakefield Rotary Club has been a major contributor to a lot of South County organizations, and there are many local nonprofit entities that we’ve been supporting for a number of years,” states Chris vanHemelrijck, chair of WRCF’s trustees.

Deb Tanner, SRIV’s executive director, explains, “We are about volunteerism for all ages. Volunteers can make a difference in someone’s life. We help people who are in some way challenged and somehow, some way try to make their lives better.”

Through its independent aging services program, volunteers help seniors to age well and as independently as possible for as long as possible.

“Access is the most critical issue facing seniors in southern Rhode Island,” Deb states, adding “We provide transportation to places that provide basic health needs like doctor’s offices and food pantries.”

SRIV welcomes volunteers of any age, from children to seniors, and places them according to personal interests with any of its 55 nonprofit community partners. It also manages the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) of Washington County and operates a disaster preparedness program.

“Helping one individual has far-reaching effects for an entire community. When SRIV responds to an individual’s need, the entire community benefits,” Deb shares.

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SRIV volunteers provide more than 80,000 service hours annually, including at the organization’s

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Charlestown office. Its entire paid staff consists of one full-time and two part-time employees.

The organization received the funds to establish this endowment from an anonymous Washington County entity. “It (the gift) gave us money to place with the Rhode Island Foundation, to start a rainy day fund, and to pay our bills,” Deb says.

Partnering with the Foundation, she says, “was a no-brainer. We wanted the stability, support, and investment know-how of the Foundation.

We’ve participated in trainings there and have a connection to the Foundation. Its reputation is priceless. Why wouldn’t we go with the best?”

The 45-member Club, founded in 1957 as part of the now more than one million-member Rotary International, includes career professionals, business owners, and community leaders. Each supports the Rotary tagline “Service Above Self” and its role as a charitable and service organization.

“We are growing our funds at this point,” Chris explains, noting that the Club’s local contributions provide scholarships to students and enhance services provided by area nonprofits including Easter Seals, Habitat for Humanity, the Domestic Violence Resource Center, and the Jonnycake Center.

Club members raise funds largely through special events including the annual Narragansett Art Festival, which the Club has sponsored since 1982. With the cancellation of the annual South County Balloon Festival, Chris shares they have “a couple new projects in the planning stage.”

Of their decision to establish this endowment at the Rhode Island Foundation, Lorraine Horton, former trustees’ chair, explains, “We were impressed with the history and track record of the Rhode Island Foundation. We believe in the mission and that putting our money with the Rhode Island Foundation will make it go a little further, making the community a better place. The hope is to grow the fund and thereby further support the Club in its charitable giving.”

Since establishing the Wakefield Rotary Charitable Foundation in 1997, the Club has supported the Rotary International Foundation and its worldwide humanitarian work through the charitable foundation.

With this new organization endowment at the Rhode Island Foundation, the Club hopes to increase its charitable contributions in South Kingstown and Narragansett, while continuing to support the Rotary International Foundation.

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Board of Directors

Staff Office of the President Neil D. Steinberg President & CEO Wendi DeClercq Executive Assistant Development James S. Sanzi, JD Senior Vice President of Development Samantha Amaral Administrative Assistant Carol Golden Senior Philanthropic Advisor Aaron Guckian Development Officer Pamela Tesler Howitt Senior Philanthropic Advisor Daniel Kertzner Senior Philanthropic Advisor

Our volunteer board of directors is responsible for overseeing the Foundation’s mission and strategic direction, safeguarding our financial health and sustainability, and setting organizational policies.

Directors are chosen for their community leadership and knowledge.

Carmen Diaz-Jusino Strategic Initiative Officer Lisa DiMartino Strategic Initiative Officer Inés Merchán Grant Programs Officer Zachary Nieder Strategic Initiative Officer Donna Sowden Administrative Assistant Communications & Marketing Arianne Corrente Vice President of Communications & Marketing Chris Barnett Senior Communications and Marketing Officer

Mary Brooks Wall Chair, Retired, Managing Director, Royal Bank of Scotland

Marie J. Langlois Retired, Managing Director, Washington Trust Investors

Strategy & Community Investments Jessica David Executive Vice President of Strategy & Community Investments

Michael Allio President and CEO, Allio Associates, LLC

Mary F. Lovejoy Retired, Vice President and Treasurer, Textron

Claudia Cornejo Administrative Assistant

Connie Grosch Multimedia and Publications Producer

Jonathan D. Fain Chairman of the Board and CEO, Teknor Apex Company

Janet Robinson Former President and CEO, New York Times Company

Katie Murray Director of Evaluation and Learning

Jamie E. Hull Communications and Marketing Associate

Carrie Bridges Feliz, MPH Director, Lifespan, Community Health Institute

The Honorable Ernest C. Torres Retired, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, District of Rhode Island

Jill Pfitzenmayer, PhD Vice President of Capacity Building

Lauren Paola Outreach and Events Manager

Keith Tavares Capacity Building Officer

Ann-Marie Harrington Founder, Embolden

James Wright CEO, Bridge Technical Talent

Finance Jennifer Reid Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer

Meghan Hughes, PhD President, Community College of Rhode Island

Neil D. Steinberg Ex officio member President & CEO, Rhode Island Foundation

G. Alan Kurose, MD, MBA, FACP President and CEO, Coastal Medical

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Adrian C. Bonéy Grant Programs Officer

*Board and staff listings are current as of 12/31/19

Bazl Taliaferrow-Mosleh Community Investments Analyst Grant Programs Jennifer Pereira Vice President of Grant Programs Ricky Bogert Grant Programs Officer

Jean E. Cohoon Senior Communications and Marketing Officer

Technology & Operations Management Kathleen Malin Vice President of Technology & Operations Management Louis Capracotta, III Facilities Manager Alison Jackson Data and Operations Manager Elizabeth Lamoureux Special Grants and Reports Administrator Lisa Maddox Gifts and Operations Administrator Erendida Montes Grants Database Technician Paula O’Brien Advised Grants Administrator Bryant Phillips Database Administrator Kelly Riley Donor Services Administrator Diane Rodgers Administrative Assistant Ian Ross Grants Database Coordinator Joe Santos IT Technician Karen Sylvia Gifts Administrator Human Resources Sharon Collier Vice President of Human Resources

Nicole Bucci Controller Raymond J. DeCosta Senior Staff Accountant Nicole Delos Senior Staff Accountant p75

Funds established in 2019 are in red. Donors who wish to remain anonymous are not listed. Those with a โ ข have a story in this book.

AAA Northeast Charitable Fund (2013) AAA Northeast Scholarship Fund (2016) Adams Public Library Supported by: Adams Public Library Endowment Fund (2016) and Adams Public Library Flexible Endowment Fund (2016) Lorne A. Adrain Fund for Community Leadership (1997) Lorne A. Adrain Fund for Special Olympics (1998) Mark G. Adrain Memorial Scholarship Fund (2014)

Funds The following is a list of the component funds of the Rhode Island Foundation.

To learn about creating your own charitable fund, contact the development department at (401) 274-4564.

AIA Rhode Island Supported by: AIA Rhode Island / DF Pray Scholarship Fund (2014) and AIA Rhode Island Scholarship Fund (2014) Paul J. and Joyce T. Aicher Fund (2017) Ross and Mary Aiello Fund (1979) Louise M. Aldrich Fund (1987) Louise M. Aldrich Fund (2006) Allen Family Fund (1994) Alliance Franรงaise of Providence Endowment Fund (2016) Allio Fund (2014) Edward F. Almon Fund (2014) Alperin Hirsch Family Fund (1995) Mark and Kathleen Alperin Fund (1997) Patty and Melvin G. Alperin Fund (1995) Patty & Melvin Alperin First Generation Scholarship Fund (1998) Alumnae Association of Newport Hospital School of Nursing Fund (2018)

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Edward R. Anderson CLU Scholarship Fund (1986) Hugold B. and Barbara A. Anderson Fund (1989) Hugold and Berndt and Jane Anderson Fund (2001) James G. Angell Fund (1994) Emily J. Anthony Fund (1931) (2) Emily J. Anthony Fund (2011) Chad Antoch Memorial Fund (1996) Applegate Fund (2017) Aptaker Family Fund (2004) Aquidneck Island Fund (2003) Aquidneck Land Trust Merritt Neighborhood Fund (2004) Ronald D. Araujo Memorial Scholarship Fund (2004) James E. Arcaro Fund (1995) Rhea Archambault Memorial Fund (1987) Gottlob Armbrust Family Fund (2018) Artists Development Fund (1987) Arts in Academics Fund (2004) Asbury United Methodist Church Fund (1993) Hugh D. Auchincloss III Fund (2006) Audubon Society of Rhode Island Endowment Fund (2015) Karl Augenstein Memorial Fund (1989) Jim and Karin Aukerman Fund (2006) Jean H. and Stanley E. Auslander Fund (2010) Avalon Fund (2008)

Amaral Family Scholarship Fund (2013)

Sylvia Avedisian Long and Vaughn Avedisian Memorial Fund (2003)

Amaranth of RI Diabetes Fund (2007)

Vaughn Avedisian Helping Hand Fund (2005)

American Legion Stark-Parker Post #21 Fund (2005)

Avenue Public Art Fund (2014)

Joy Diana Ames Fund (2019)

Antonio and Angelina Azzinaro Scholarship Fund (2018)

Margaret A. Ames and Robert S. Ames Fund (1996)

Bach Organ Scholarship Fund (1985)

Anchor Auto Group Charitable Fund (2018)

Marion Brown Baker Fund (2002)

Anne W. Anderson Fund (1996)

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Alvin Benjamin Berg Fund (2002)

Bonnet-Eymard Family Fund (2007)

Zabel Yaghjian Berg Fund (2001)

Daniel R. Borah Fund (2005)

Bernadette and Douglas Bernon Charitable Fund (2010)

Emilie Luiza Borda Charitable Fund (2008)

Berry Family Fund (1971)

Borden Lyon Family Fund (2018)

Thomas Beswick Fund (1960)

Borders Farm Endowment Fund (2004)

BankNewport/OceanPoint Charitable Fund (1988)

Patricia A. Biasuzzi and John M. Biasuzzi Scholarship Fund (2017)

Harold R. Bannister Fund (2011)

Bickford Family Charitable Fund (2019) •

Frederick H., William, & Frederick H. Banspach Memorial Fund (1997)

Bisaccia-Naparstek Charitable Fund (2015)

The Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center Supported by: The Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center / H. Alan & Ellie Frank Fund (2014); The Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center Fund (2015); Jewish Motorcyclists Alliance of The Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center Endowment Fund (2017); Fred, Gertrude and Henry Regensteiner Library Fund of The Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center (2017); Touro Fraternal Association of The Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center Endowment Fund (2017); and Dr. Howard S. Lampal Memorial Education Fund of the Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center (2018)

Charles C. Balch Fund (1963) F. Remington Ballou Scholarship Fund (2003) Jennie M. Ballou Fund (1946) Hildred F. Bamforth Fund (1992) Banigan Malm Fund (2017)

Edward J. and Gloria M. Barlow Fund for Ronald McDonald House (2017) Edward J. and Gloria M. Barlow Fund for Roger Williams Park Zoo (2017)

Black Philanthropy Bannister Fund (2007/2016) Supported by: Morgan L. Stone Memorial Fund (2000); Edward C. and Audrey A. Clifton Fund for Black Philanthropy (2007); Linda H. and Charles C. Newton Fund for Black Philanthropy (2007); Walter R. Stone Fund for Black Philanthropy (2007); Dennis M. and Miriam C. Coleman Fund for Black Philanthropy (2008); Jason and Patricia Fowler Fund for Black Philanthropy (2008); Glenn S. Prescod Fund for Black Philanthropy (2009); and Beverly E. Ledbetter Fund for Black Philanthropy (2014)

Lisa Ruddy Fund (2004); Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket/ The Collette Vacations Endowment for Baseball (2005); Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket/Joseph T. McHale Fund for Literacy (2005); and Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket/ William B. Macaulay Endowment For the Arts (2005) Boys & Girls Clubs of Providence Supported by: Boys & Girls Clubs of Providence Operational Fund (2014); Robert P. Brooks President’s Scholarship Endowment for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Providence (2016); and Solomon A. Solomon College Education Endowment for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Providence (2016) Boys & Girls Clubs of Warwick Fund (2017) Bradford Family Fund (2018) Mae L. Bradley Fund (2006) Brain Injury Association of Rhode Island Fund (2014) Carol A. and Robert H. Breslin, Jr. Fund (2004)

Bosman Family Fund (2012)

Alma Brewster Fund (1978)

Bosworth Fund (1999)

Brickle Group Charitable Fund (2014)

Frederick S. Blackall IV Fund (2017)

Edward M. Botelle Memorial Library Fund (1989)

Roberta H. Bridenbaugh Fund (1996)

Blackall Fund (1986)

Family of Eugene M. Boutiette Fund (1979)

Harriet M. Briggs Memorial Fund (1978)

Patricia and Steele Blackall Fund (1986)

Michael A. Bova Memorial Scholarship Fund (2006)

Brightman Hill Fund (2017)

Blackburn Family Fund (2004)

Bowen Haven Fund (2009)

Bristol Children’s Home Fund (1967)

George T. Blackburn and Susan H. Blackburn Fund (2004)

Richard M. Bowen Fund (1927)

Bristol Female Charitable Society Fund (2003)

Barrington District Nursing Association Fund (1989)

Victor Blanco Memorial Scholarship Fund (2008)

Boyajian Family Fund (2011)

Barry Family Scholarship Fund (2018)

Alice W. Bliss Memorial Fund (1981)

Mary A. Boylan Memorial Fund (1997)

Bristol Historical & Preservation Society Helene L. Tessler Fund (2009)

William Walter Batchelder Fund (1954)

Lorraine S. Bliss, Lewis I. Gross, Sophia S. Gross, and Rosetta L. Horowitz Memorial Fund (2009)

Boys & Girls Club of Newport County Fund (2002)

Edward J. and Gloria M. Barlow Scholarship Fund (2016) Barrington Christian Academy Supported by: Barrington Christian Academy Endowment Fund (1993); Barrington Christian Academy-Stratton Scholarship Fund (2005), and Barrington Christian Academy Scholarship Fund (2014) Barrington Congregational Church Supported by: Barrington Congregational Church Fund (1990) and Barrington Congregational Church Flex Fund (2017)

Victor & Gussie Baxt Fund (2006) Beacon Brighter Tomorrows Fund (1998) Sara G. Beckwith Fund (1990) Friends of Beechwood/North Kingstown Endowment Fund (2014) Behavioral Health Fund (2018) Belmont Chapel Preservation Endowment Fund (2014)

Block Island Conservancy Supported by: Block Island Conservancy/Eric Jess Spirer Fund (2004) and Block Island Conservancy Inc. Stewardship Endowment Fund (2008) Block Island Fund (1994) Block Island Medical Center Endowment Fund (2008) Blount Fine Foods Fund (2014)

Thomas L. and Kathryn D. Bendheim Family Fund (2006)

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island Community Health Fund (2005)

Frederick J. Benson Scholarship Fund (1975)

Raymond J. and Brenda B. Bolster Community Fund (2005)

Paul A. Berchielli Memorial Fund (2015)

George H. Bond and Mary K. Bond Fund (2016)

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Boys and Girls Clubs of Northern RI Walter S. Schwaner Sr. Memorial Scholarship Fund (2019) • Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket Supported by: Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket Fund (2002); Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket/Brian Agin Memorial Fund (2004); Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket/Allen P. Barker Memorial Fund (2004); Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket/A. Henry Soar Memorial Fund (2004); Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket/Crown Collision Centers ASAP Fund (2004); Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket/John J. McMahon Memorial Fund (2004); Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket/Andrew Dimant Memorial Scholarship (2004); Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket/ Arthur & Mary Kaufman Fund Est. in Loving Memory of James T. Boylan (2004); Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket/ Dennis M. Lynch Memorial Basketball Tournament Fund (2004); Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket/Mike Pappas Athletic Fund (2004); Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket/Anthony &

Bristol Warren Education Foundation Endowment (2015) Olive C.P. Brittan Memorial Scholarship Fund (2001) Helen E.B. Bromley Memorial Scholarship Fund (2001) Brooks Family Fund (2000) Robert and Rhea Brooks Family Fund (2016) Abbie A. Brougham Memorial Fund (1988) Fern Brown Memorial Fund (1995) Georgia A. Brown Fund (1991) H. Martin Brown Memorial Fund (1998) James P. Brown, Jr., and the Greta P. Brown Fund (1982) Jean Margaret Young Brown Fund (2006)

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Jeffrey A. and Barbara Horovitz Brown Fund (2004)

Anthony and Attilia E. Caran Fund (2007)

Walter G. Brown Fund (1964)

Donald and Suzanne Carcieri Fund (1998)

William Horace Brown Memorial Fund (2004)

Patricia B. and Paul C. Carlson Fund (1994)

Bubba Fund (2009)

Carpenter Fund (1927) (2)

C. Warren and Anne D. Bubier Fund (1989)

Arthur H. Carr Fund (2009)

C. Warren Bubier Fund (2001)

Chariho-Westerly Animal Rescue League Animal Welfare Fund (2014) Chariho-Westerly Animal Rescue League Legacy Fund (2014)

Classical Association of New England Endowment Fund (2019)• Classical Enrichment Fund (2019)

Anne Elizabeth Chase Fund (1976)

Classical High School Alumni Association Scholarship Fund (1991)

Lillian Chason Memorial Fund (2010)

Clean Competition Fund (2011)

Ginger, Sheba and Susie Carr Fund (2013)

Dr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Chazan Fund for the Wheeler School (1978)

John & Lillian Clegg Charitable Fund (2017)

Alfred Buckley Fund (1977)

Richard N. Carr Memorial Scholarship Fund (1996)

Chemical Company Fund (2012)

Helen H. Buckley Fund (2003)

Beverly E. Carr Fund in Memory of Manola & Arthur Merrill and Estella & Edwin Hartley (2000)

Cherry Family Fund (2018)

Marjorie W. and George B. Bullock, Jr. Fund (2001) David P. Bulman Memorial Scholarship Fund (2005) Bernard V. Buonanno Classical High School Fund (2010) Dr. Alex M. Burgess Memorial Fund (1974) Burke Bryant Family Fund (2001) John P. Burke Memorial Fund Supported by: John P. Burke Memorial Fund (2005); John P. Burke Memorial Fund/Joseph J. Sprague, Sr. Memorial Scholarship (2005); and John P. Burke Memorial Fund/Rhode Island State Seniors’ Golf Association Scholarship (2005) James J. Burns and C. A. Haynes Scholarship Fund (1991) Krista Weller Burns Scholarship Fund for the Arts (2019) • Butler Family Fund (2017) Virginia B. Butler Fund (1978) Button Hole Supported by: Button Hole Fund (2004) and Button Hole Endowment Fund (2014) Edith T. Cabot Fund (1966) Jane Brownell Cady Fund (2002) John C. Cahill Memorial Fund (1997) Rose M. Calandrelli Scholarship Fund (2017) Ann Burton Cameron and Louise Cameron Hintze Fund (2012) CANE Child Development Center Fund (2005) Canepari Family Fund (2016) Friends of Canonchet Farm Endowment Fund (2013) Ruth A. Capron Fund (1991)

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Edward F. Clement Memorial Fund (1999) Clover Fund (2012) Barbara and Cary Coen Family Fund (2004)

Richard N. and Beverly E. Carr Fund (2000)

Louis and Goldie Chester Full Plate Kosher Food Pantry Fund (2013)

Virginia Carson Memorial Scholarship (2009)

Samuel J. and Esther Chester Arts Fund (2013)

Cohen-Toon Fund (2012)

Marion M. Carstens Fund in Memory of Janice E. Mutty (2002)

Samuel J. and Esther Chester Medical Research Fund (2013)

Charles H. Carswell Fund (1980)

Child & Family – Townsend Planned Giving Fund (2015)

College Crusade of Rhode Island Supported by: College Crusade Believe Fund (2014) and College Crusade Legacy Fund (2014)

Carter Fund (2011)

Children’s Friend Fund (2014)

Arnold B. and Madelyn Collins Fund (2000)

Carter Fellowship for Entrepreneurial Innovation (2011)

Children's Shelter of Blackstone Valley Fund (2019) •

Charles A. Collis Fund (1991)

Carter Spark Grants Fund (2013) Carter Roger Williams Initiative Fund (2015)

Chopin Club Supported by: Chopin Club Scholarship Fund (2003) and Chopin Club Endowment Fund (2014)

Carter Roger Williams Scholarship Fund (2017)

Choquette Family Fund (1995)

Common Cause Rhode Island Supported by: Phil West Spirit of Common Cause Rhode Island Fund (2006) and Natalie C. Joslin Common Cause Future Fund (2013)

John Carter III Fund (2017)

Carl W. Christiansen Scholarship Fund (1974)

Florence P. Case Fund (1967)

Howard P. Chudacoff and Nancy Fisher Chudacoff Fund (2017)

Grace D. and Lloyd A. Case Fund (2006)

Church House Fund (1958)

Cataract Fire Company #2 Scholarship Fund (1974)

Montie G. and Catherine F. Ciarlo Memorial Scholarship Fund (2005)

Samuel M. Cate Fund (2001) Allison N. Cathro Fund (1997) CCRI Foundation Fund (2018) City of Central Falls Fund (2013) Elizabeth Z. Chace Fund (2016) Margaret Chace Scholarship Fund (1999)

Antonio Cirino Memorial Fund (1987) Civic Leadership Fund (2011) Harriet A. F. Claflin Fund (1990) Arnold V. and Jane K. Clair Fund (1991) Gilbert J. Clappin, Jr. Memorial Fund (2005)

Daniel Brian Cohen Scholarship Fund (2007)

Community MusicWorks Supported by: Community MusicWorks Fund (2008) and CMW Fund (2018) Community Preparatory School Supported by: Community Preparatory School Endowment Fund (1988) and Community Preparatory School Flexible Endowment Fund (2009) Nina H. Congdon Fund (1976) Congdon Fund for the Benefit of Grace Church in Providence (2003) Congdon Fund in Honor of The Congdon & Carpenter Company (1790-1987) (1969) Conley Family Charitable Fund (2015) Alton H. Conn, Jr. Memorial Scholarship Fund (2018)

Charles V. Chapin Fellowship Fund (1968)

David Sanders Clark and Mary H. L. Clark Memorial Fund (2013)

Roger B. Chapman Scholarship Fund (2007)

George P. Clark and Vera J. Clark Fund (1999)

Conrad-Nestor-Walsh Scholarship Fund (2008)

Holly Charette Scholarship Fund (2007)

Clark Memorial Library Endowment Fund (1999)

Conservation Stewardship Collaborative Endowment (2007)

Chariho Community Innovative Projects Fund (2003)

Clark-Lyon Fund (1990)

Constant Memorial Fund (1999)

Ann F. and Robert B. Conner Fund (1995)

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DeRabbanan Fund (1989)

Sheila A. Duffy Fund (1997)

Clementina DeRocco Memorial Fund (1985)

George H. and Ruth E. Duggan Memorial Fund (1991)

David and Elaine DeSousa Family Fund (2006)

Edward Leon Duhamel Scholarship Fund (1991)

Developmentally Disabled and Retarded Special Needs Fund in Memory of Louise A. Shuster (1991)

John Richard Duhamel Fund for Animals (2017)

Michael E. and Lida M. Contillo Scholarship Fund (2018)

Cumberland Land Trust Greenways Endowment Fund (2008)

Michael E. and Lida M. Contillo Summertime Fund (2019)

Christiane Corbat Art and Healing Fund (2006)

Cumberland Public Library Supported by: Alice Codding Endowment Fund for Cumberland Public Library (2011); Cumberland Grange Endowment Fund for Cumberland Public Library (2011); and Cumberland Library Endowment Fund (2013)

John & Jane Corbishley Fund (2010)

Lillian Cumming Streetscape Fund (1988)

Claudia and Mary Howe DeWolf Fund (1991)

John & Lori Anne Corbishley Fund (1996)

Curtin Family Fund (2003)

John & Lori Anne Corbishley Memorial Garden Fund (2005)

Marquise d’Andigne Fund (1932)

Olive B. DeWolf Fund in Memory of Paul Churchill DeWolf (1990)

Corliss Fund (1991)

Sister Angela Daniels & Reverend Daniel Trainor Fund for the Genesis Center (2014)

Charles Nourse Cook and Mary C. Cook Fund (1938)

Corning Glass Works Scholarship Fund (1974) Camillo & Luigia Costello Family Scholarship Fund (2016) Michael & Anita Costello Scholarship Fund (2016) Leroy P. Cox Trust (1992) Cox Charities Northeast Fund (2009) Horace and Reverend E. Naomi Craig Scholarship Fund (2000) Mary Lou Crandall Fund (2006) Cranston Historical Society Endowment Fund (2013) Cranston School Department Supported by: Alice Hall Allen, Class of 1935 Scholarship Fund (2017) and Vincent D. Morgera Memorial Scholarship Fund (2018)

Dibble Memorial Fund (1990)

East Bay Food Pantry & Thrift Shop Endowment Fund (2018)

Viola M. Dascoli Fund (2010)

Dr. Bruno DiClemente Scholarship Fund (2001)

East Greenwich Education Endowment Fund (2003)

Daugherty Family Fund (2019)

Dimock Fund (2013)

East Side Branch YMCA Fund (2018)

William N. and Dorothy Q. Davis Fund (2003)

Gabrielle Dinsmore Heart & Hope Fund (2017)

Walter L. and Edna N. Davol Fund (1993)

Gabrielle Dinsmore Fund in Support of the Pediatric Heart Center at Hasbro Children’s Hospital (2017)

Grace M. Eastwood Fund for North Kingstown Free Library (2007)

Walter L. and Edna N. Davol Fund (1988) Edna N. Davol Fund (1989) DeAngelis Family Fund (1978) John A. and Elsa J. DeAngelis Fund (2005) DeBare Family Fund (2019) • James Philip Deery Fund (1987)

A. T. Cross Scholarship Fund (1987)

Allene deKotzebue Fund (1953)

Crossroads Rhode Island Supported by: Howard G. Sutton Endowment for Crossroads Rhode Island (2011) and Anne Nolan Endowment for Crossroads Rhode Island (2015)

Anthony and Grace Del Vecchio Endowment Fund (2006)

John Michael Crowley Memorial Scholarship Fund (2012) Robert L. and Kathleen B. Crudup Family Scholarship Fund (2012) Paul Cuffee School Supported by: Paul Cuffee School/Rosalind C. Wiggins Fund (2008) and David Burnham Maritime Fund for Paul Cuffee School (2014) Helena Cullen and Anita Cinq-Mars Fund (2006) p82

Dutch Island Lighthouse Endowment Fund (2011) Norman S. Dyer Memorial Fund (2019) •

Margaret Deery Fund (1987)

James P. Crowley, Sr. Football Scholarship Fund (2013)

Charles and Nancy Dunn Family Fund (2011)

Jeremiah Dexter Family Fund (1998)

Frederick S. Crisafulli MD Scholarship Fund (2019) •

Mary C. Crowell Fund (1976)

Ali Dunn Packer Memorial Fund (2002)

Delmonico Family Fund (2013) Julius and Lena DelPapa Memorial Fund (2014) Delta Dental of Rhode Island Fund (2005) Beatrice S. Demers Fund (2007) Laurence DeMorino Fund (2019) Frieda Dengal Fund (2013) Giovanni deNicola & Dora DeAmicis Memorial Fund (2003) Densmore Scholarship Fund (1993) Thomas DePetrillo and Carol Keefe Fund (2013)

J.D. Edsal Scholarship Fund (1981)

Directors’ Fund (2000)

Patricia W. Edwards Memorial Art Fund (1989)

Iona Dobbins Art Fund (2000)

Michael G. Ehrlich, M.D. Fund for Orthopedic Research (2018)

Iona Blake Dobbins Scholarship Fund for the Visual Arts (2013)

Nancy Band Ehrlich Fund for the Arts (2015)

Doc Fund (2003)

Henry P. & Priscilla B. Eldredge Fund (2004) (2)

Edgar M. Docherty Memorial Fund (2001)

Priscilla B. & Henry P. Eldredge Fund (1990)

Charles and Marilyn Doebler Fund (2004)

Priscilla Bateson Eldredge ’40 - Middlebury College Fund (1997)

James Donaldson Scholarship Fund (2014)

Elmwood Church-Congregational Christian Fund (1955)

Sylvia G. Donnelly Fund (1988) Harry L. Doran SPCA Endowment Fund (2019) •

Emmanuel Church Supported by: Baum Fund for Emmanuel Church (2013) and Brown Fund for Emmanuel Church (2013)

Dorcas Place Partners for Learning Fund (1999)

Embolden Charitable Fund (2012)

Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island Fund (2015)

Joy Spanabel Emery Endowment Fund (2016)

Sgt. Maxwell R. Dorley Memorial Fund (2014)

English-Speaking Union Boston Branch Educational Endowment (2007)

Kenneth J. and Hannah E. Dorney Fund (2016)

Elizabeth M. Drapala Memorial Scholarship Fund (2002)

Equity Action Fund (2003) Supported by: Simone P. Joyaux and Tom Ahern Fund for Equity Action (2003); Bhikhaji M. Maneckji Fund for Equity Action (2003); Julia Lorillard Pell Fund for Equity Action (2003); Sally E. Lapides Fund for Equity Action (2008); SoCoWiWo Fund (2010); and Schoenfeld Family Fund for Equity Action (2011)

Frosty Drew Nature Center Fund (1985)

ETCO, Inc. Fund (1988)

Gregory Dubuc Memorial Scholarship Fund (2008)

Evangelista Family Fund (2000)

David Spalding Douglas Fund (1999) Douglas A. and Charlotte H. Dow Fund (1994)

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FAF Cares Fund (2018)

James A. and Elizabeth K. Fletcher Fund (1987)

Barnet Fain Fund for the Providence Art Club (2018)

Kenneth P. Flint Fund (2011)

Barnet Fain Fund for Temple Habonim (2018)

Florence Family Fund (2009)

Barry and Dr. Elaine Fain Fund (2014)

Flower Power Inc. Fund (2005)

Jonathan and Ruth Fain Fund (2017)

George P. and Anna M. Flynn Scholarship Fund (1998)

Linda Fain Family Fund in Memory of Beatrice and Archie Fain (2001)

Sarah F. and Gerald J. Fogarty Fund (2006)

Effie R. Fairley Fund (1992)

Sarah Adams Fogg & Henry Meader Fogg Fund (1992)

Fruit Hill Women’s Clubs Scholarship Fund (1982)

Peter and Melinda Gerard & Loti Falk Family Fund (2006)

Albert H. Fuchs Trust (1995)

Nancy H. Gewirtz Fund for The Economic Progress Institute (2005)

Ellen R. Fuglister Fund (1991) William "Bill" Fullaway Family Fund (2019) • Fund for Arts and Culture (2011) Fund for Children and Families (2011)

GFWC Women’s Club of South County Scholarship Fund (2000) Richard and Vera Gierke Family Fund (2005) Gilbert Charitable Fund (2015)

Fund for Economic Security (2015)

Lottie G., William E., and Ruth M. Gilmore Memorial Fund (1981)

Fund for Education (2010)

Eric Ginsberg Memorial Scholarship Fund (2009)

Matthew J. Fandetti Memorial Fund (2002)

Lois Hamilton Fontaine Scholarship Fund of the Westerly College Club, Inc. (1997)

John David Fanning Memorial Fund (1985)

Forer Family Fund (1999)

Fund for the Environment (2011)

Girls Friendly Society of Rhode Island Fund (1987)

Donald Farish Memorial Fund (2018)

Robert H. Forrest Fund for the Arts and Humanities (2018)

Fund for Grace Church (1980)

Richard J. Gladney Charitable Endowment Fund (2004)

Malcolm Farmer III and Susan L. Farmer Fund (2014)

Fort Adams Preservation Fund (2008)

Fund for Greater Providence YMCA (2003)

Gladys Fund (2002)

Farnham Fund (1999)

Maria A. Forte-Tocco Scholarship Fund (2002)

Fund for a Healthy Rhode Island (2008)

Glass Family Fund (2006)

Feibelman Family Fund (1988)

43rd Signal Company Veterans Association/Robert L. Grace Fund (2009)

Fund for Housing (2011)

Don C. Glassie Synergy Fund (2017)

Fund for Rhode Island (1916)

Roger O. Glaude Memorial Fund (2009)

Fund for Rhode Island Public Education (2019)

Glocester Heritage Society Endowment Fund (2008)

Thomas E. Furey Fund (2009)

Robert H. I. Goddard Fund (1994)

Stanley and Florence Gairloch Fund (1982)

Robert H. I. Goddard and Hope Drury Goddard Fund (2013)

Bob and Wini Galkin Fund (2012)

Robert H. I. Goddard Fund/St. Elizabeth Home (1978)

Herbert S. Galkin Memorial Scholarship Fund (2015)

Darius Lee Goff and Paula Dodge Goff Fund (1981)

Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre Endowment Fund (2015) Mark and Adela Felag Fund (2004) Joseph P. Ferrucci, Esq. Memorial Scholarship Fund (2010) Harold C. and May Noel Field Fund (1968) Harold J. Field Fund (1994)

Anne R. & Harold M. Foster Memorial Fund (2004) Foster Community Libraries Endowment Fund (2017) Foundation for Health Fund (2006) Four Corners Community Chapel Endowment Fund (2011)

Janet I. & H. James Field, Jr. Fund (2004)

Alan Fox Fund for the Music School of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra (2001)

Richard M. and Janice H. Field Fund (1995)

Mary Fox Endowment Fund (2018)

Ira S. and Anna Galkin Fund (1977)

Carleton Goff Fund (1999)

Noel M Field, Jr. Family Fund (1999)

Miriam G. Frank Fund (2000)

Madeline P. Gamble Fund (1987)

Newell D. Goff Fund (2013)

Fifth Ward Memorial Fund (1962)

Eva and Boris Frankfurt Fund (2008)

Richard A. Gamelin, Jr. Memorial Fund (2003)

David M. Golden Memorial Fund (1999)

Frank and Anne Fiorenzano Scholarship Fund (2002)

George R. Frankovich Scholarship Fund (1996)

Charles H. Gardiner Memorial Fund (2010)

Golden Einhorn Family Fund (1999)

Jack Fireman, D.O. Scholarship Fund (2007)

Mary Ethier Frappier Fund (2010)

Howard F. and Olga B. Gardiner Fund (2000)

Golden Tishman Family Fund (2003)

Frederick J. Fish, Jr. Fund (1998)

Alexander E. and Alice M. Fraser Fund (1972)

Edna B. Gardner Fund (1981)

Leon and Barbara Goldstein Fund (2006)

Hyman and Mollie Fishbein Fund (1996)

Aldo Freda Scholarship Fund (1997)

Susan and Jim Garlington Fund (2014)

Henry Gonsalves Family Fund (1999)

John R. Fitton Memorial Fund (1988)

Marion Baker Freeman Fund (1963)

Guy and Ann Garofalo Family Fund (2004)

Susan F. Gonsalves Charitable Fund (2010)

Joanne Fitts Memorial Scholarship Fund (2017)

Mimi and Peter Freeman Fund (2003)

Edward and Jeannette Gatta Memorial Fund (2001)

Professor and Mrs. Elliot R. Goodman Fund (1991)

Kevin A. Fitzgerald Memorial Scholarship Fund (1989)

Robert E. Freeman Downcity Fund (1992)

Diane D. Geaber Memorial Fund (2011)

Cynthia C. Goodwin Memorial Fund (1976)

Mary L. Flanigan Fund (1987)

Friday Charitable Fund (2017)

Gloria Gemma Cancer Resource Fund (2018)

James A. and Elizabeth K. Fletcher Fund (1993)

Fredric C. Friedman/Sheryl A. Jacobson Fund (2009)

Dominic Gencarelli Family Trust Fund (1988)

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Gordon School Supported by: Gordon Fund (1996) and Peter Kaplan Memorial Fund for Gordon School (1996)

Rosa Anne Grosvenor Fund (1942)

Ralph E. Hanson Fund (2013)

Hevey-O’Rourke Scholarship Fund (2014)

Gudoian Family Fund (2005)

Percy A. Harden Fund (1953)

Higgins Family Fund (2010)

Joanne Gorman Fund (2018)

Madeline Guida Memorial Fund (2007)

Alice M. Harkin Nursing Scholarship Fund (2014)

Charles Goss Memorial Fund (1995)

Lynn M. Gunzberg Fund (2002)

Rachel R. Harper and Philip R. Harper Fund (2000)

Kenneth N. & Judith Brand Hill Fund for Grace Church in Providence (1996)

Lisa Lofland Gould Native Plant Program Fund (2007)

Florence Kennan Gurney Fund (1972)

Maegan Harpool Memorial Fund (2009)

Goulet Family Fund (2003)

Hans E. Gwinner and Berta E. Gwinner Fund (2001)

Harriet Kean Harrington Fund (1998)

Richard C. and Ellen M. Gower Fund (2012)

Hans E. Gwinner and Berta E. Gwinner Charitable Fund (2001)

Ernest A. Harris Memorial Fund (1999)

George Graboys Leadership Fund (2008)

Hans E. Gwinner and Berta E. Gwinner Fund for Economic Development (2001)

Dr. Daniel S. and Dorothy J. Harrop Fund (2008)

Lois W. and George Graboys Family Fund (2008) Grace Fellowship Church Memorial Fund (2007)

Hans E. Gwinner and Berta E. Gwinner Fund for Education (2001)

Gracie Annabelle and Ariane Fund (2002)

Barbara S. Gwynne Shakespeare’s Head Garden Fund (1995)

Gracie Annabelle and Sam Fund (2002)

Ann W. Hack Memorial Fund (1996)

Barbi N. Gracie Fund (1994)

Mrs. Jeannette Hamilton Hadley Fund (1981)

Grandparents Guild Fund (1987)

Carolyn B. Haffenreffer Endowment Fund for the Providence Preservation Society (1986)

Doris Green Fund (2005) Annie Aylsworth Greene Fund (1967) Greene Cemetery Fund (1989) Nancy Carolyn Greene Endowment Fund (2007) Greenhalgh Charitable Fund (1971) Gregson Foundation (2002) Gregson Fund (1975) Greta and Mac Esprit Fund (2019) • Greta and Mac Fund (2015) Griffiths Family Fund (1999) William Grimshaw Fund (2002) Christine T. Grinavic Adventurer’s Fund (2007) Groden Center Supported by: Groden Center Fund (2011) and Considine Family Fund at the Groden Center (2012) Bessie Grossman Memorial Fund (1966) Helen E. and Stanley H. Grossman Fund (2014) Herschel and Suzanne Grossman Fund for Assisting Immigrants (1995) p86

James S. and Marjorie W. Hart Fund (2019) • Louise Hartwell Fund (1978) Harvard Business School Association of Southeastern New England (HBSA-SNE) Fund (2002)

Hinckley, Allen and Snyder Fund (2003) Louise C. Hintze Fund (2012) Hope L. and David M. Hirsch Fund (2010) Larry J. and Kay P. Hirsch Charitable Fund (2018) Barry and Kathleen Hittner Fund (2002) Andrew R. Hoban Memorial Scholarship Fund (2004) Gilbert and Olga Hoffman Fund (2006) Louise A. Hoge Fund in Memory of Wallace W. Hoge (1990)

Harvey Family Fund (2014)

Honey Buzz Fund (2013)

Warren and Elizabeth Haskell Memorial Fund (1984)

Edith R. Hood Fund (1968)

Elizabeth Haskell Fund (1984)

Hope Alzheimer’s Center Endowment Fund (2005)

Haffenreffer Seaconnet Point Fund I (1988)

Danielle and Michael Haxton Family Fund (2006)

Haffenreffer Seaconnet Point Fund II (1988)

Alice D. Hayes Fund (2008)

Hope High Dollars for Scholars Supported by: Hope High Dollars for Scholars Endowment Fund (2018) and Class of '62 Endowed Scholarship Fund (2019)

Arnold H. Hahn, Jr. Memorial Fund (2005)

Caroline Hazard Fund (1977)

Mary Kimball Hail Fund (2004)

Peyton R. Hazard Fund (1964)

Haire Family Fund (2003)

Thomas P. Hazard Fund (1982)

Hale House Endowment Fund (2011)

Healing Ribbons Fund (2004)

Halkyard Family Fund (2000)

Hebert Family Fund (2015)

Hopkinton Land Trust Conservation Stewardship Endowment (2008)

Lawrence L. Hall Fund (1996)

Henry Heffernan Fund (1998)

Albert E. Horton Fund (1968)

Almon and Suzanne Hall Family Fund (2015)

William H. Heisler III Fund (2014)

Hough Family Fund (2007)

Chester W. Ham Memorial Fund (2008)

Milton S. Heller Charitable Fund (2009)

Neil J. Houston, Jr. Memorial Endowment Fund (2019) •

Hamilton House Endowment Fund (2014)

Lucille A. Moore Hennessey Fund (2002)

Florrimon Howe Trusts (1992)

William S. Hamilton Fund (2005)

Henry Rich Family Fund (2018)

Anne King Howe Fund (1963)

Hemingway Hamlin Fund (1993)

Robin M. Hergott (‘83) Living Tribute Fund (2009)

Hemingway Hamlin Family Fund (1993)

Heritage Harbor Foundation Fund (2015)

Cornelia Howell Fund in Memory of Helen Howell & Fred A. Otis (1989) (2)

Raleigh Alexis Hamlin Fund (2004)

Herreshoff Marine Museum Endowment Fund (2013)

Roland Hammond Fund (1979)

Frank T. and Isabelle Oram Hertell Fund (1971)

Handicraft Club Endowment Fund (2018)

Lionel and Leona Hetu Fund (2019)

Hope Hospice & Palliative Care Rhode Island Supported by: Norman A. DesLauriers Memorial Fund (1993) and Hope Hospice & Palliative Care Rhode Island Endowment Fund (1993) Herbert E. Hopkins Fund (1980) (2)

Alice M. Howland Fund (1944) (2) Allen H. Howland Fund (1978) Allen and Katharine Howland-Gammell Family Fund (2003)

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Janet Howland and Jay Gorud Family Fund (2003)

Benjamin M. Jackson Fund (1945)

Michael and Jane Joukowsky Fund (2001)

King’s Daughters and Sons Scholarship Fund (1978)

John and Carol Howland Family Fund (2003)

S. Lee Jackson and Dorothy M. Jackson Fund (1976)

Mary M. Juskalian Fund (2015)

Peter Howland Family Fund (2003)

Madeleine C. Jackson Fund (1979)

Howland Swan Fund (2006)

Barry & Ellen Jagolinzer Charitable Fund (2019)

Herbert E. Kaplan Fund for the Association of Fundraising Professionals, RI Chapter (1996)

Kingston Chamber Music Festival Supported by: Natalie B. Kampen Fund of The Kingston Chamber Music Festival (2015) and Kingston Chamber Music Festival Sustainability Fund (2018)

Katharine F. Hubbard and Josephine H. Williams Fund (1959)

Jalbert Family Fund for Basic Human Needs (2012)

Buell W. Hudson Memorial Fund (1979)

Jalbert Family Fund for Education (2012)

Hudson Family Fund (2001)

Jamestown Community Fund (2001)

Paul W. Hunger Memorial Fund (2000)

Jamestown Fund for the Performing Arts (1983)

Dorothy H.W. Hunt Fund (1971)

Jamestown Historical Society Supported by: Jamestown Historical Society Windmill Endowment Fund (2006); Jamestown Historical Society Endowment Fund (2007); and Jamestown Historical Society Mary R. Miner Archives Fund (2007)

Dorothy H.W. Hunt-Clarence H. Philbrick Fund (1971) Harrison Barrows Huntoon Fund (1991) Phyllis Huston Fund (2005) Iacchei and Cotoia Memorial Scholarship Fund (2018) Emanuel Iacoletti and Harriet K. Iacoletti Fund (2003) Immigrants Benevolent Fund (2015) Mikko Luke, Gerald Matthew, and Delight Lewis Immonen Fund (2014) Imperial 718 Fund (2013) Fanny T. Ingalls Fund (1973) George A. & Evelyn M. Ingleby Fund (1995) Initiative for Nonprofit Excellence Fund (2008) Interfaith Health Care Ministries/The Reverend Dr. Duane F. Parker Endowment Fund (1998) International House of Rhode Island - Rooke Fund (2008) Joyce Ioanes Mental Health Memorial Fund (2007) David C. Isenberg Family Fund (2007) Amanda & Jeremy Isenberg Family Fund (2016) Island Free Library Endowment Fund (2003) Israel-Frumson Family Fund (2005)

Jamestown Philomenian Library Supported by: Jamestown Philomenian Library Endowment Fund (1996) and Jamestown Philomenian Library Capital Expenditure Fund (2004) Jasper Fund for the Care and Rescue of Animals (2000) Ellen M. Jecoy Memorial Fund for St. Bernard’s Endowment (2002) Nancy W. Jencks Fund (2016) Mary M. Jennings Fund (1996) Anna E. Johnson Fund (1978) Elizabeth Arnold Johnson Historic Trust Fund (2001) Elizabeth J. Johnson Pawtucket History Research Center Fund (2013) Kathryn Johnson Fund (2014) Kathryn Johnson Jazz Scholarship Fund (2014) Robert and Margaret MacColl Johnson Fund (2003) Robert and Margaret MacColl Johnson Fellowship Fund (2003) Victoria Johnson Scholarship Fund (2011) Johnston Lions Armand Muto Scholarship Fund (1985)

Varoujan and V. Rose Karentz Scholarship Fund (2013) Karibian Family Fund (2000) Richard Katzoff Fund (1990) Stephen M. Kaufman Memorial Fund (1999) John H. and Alberta C. Kazanjian Fund (2003) Lester B. and Linda D. Keats Fund (1991) Keck Family Fund (2018) Michael T. Keefe Youth Aviation Fund (2019) • Peter M. Keefe Junior Golf Memorial Fund (2002) Sr. Ann Keefe / CityArts Creativity and Social Justice Fund (2015) Margaret H. C. Keiler Memorial Fund in Memory of Edmund H. Keiler (1992) Edward D. Keith Fund (1949) Amelia M. Kelley-Minnie E. Kelley Fund (1983) Ellen Williams Kenerson Memorial Fund (1968) Sylvia & Frederick Kenner Fund (1996) Kiekhofer-Dickey Endowment Fund for The Friends of the Brownell Library (2015) Kiernan-Fallon Fund (1993) Jennie M. Kiernan Fund (1984) Mari Killilea Memorial Scholarship Fund (1988) John B. & Ruth L. Kilton Fund (1997) Horace A. and S. Ella Kimball Fund (1944) Daniel A. and Jennifer R. King Fund (2008) Judith Alperin King and Timothy King Fund (2000)

Harry Itchkawich Memorial Scholarship Fund (1998)

Dr. J. Paul Jones, Carolyn M. Jones and Virginia L. Jones Fund (2013)

J & K Gratitude Fund (2017)

Jonnycake Center Fund (2005)

King Solomon #11 Fund (2013)

Barbara P. Jackson Fund (1980)

Elsie I. Jordan Fund (2006)

Susan Coggeshall King Fund (2017)

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Martin Luther King Scholarship Endowment Fund (2001)

Kingston Hill Gardeners Fayerweather Grounds Endowment Fund (2009) Joseph J. and Lillian A. Kirby Fund (1998) Susan Kizlinski Family Fund (2013) NC Klein Jazz Scholarship Fund (2012) Paul and Nancy Klotz Community Fund (2004) Paul and Nancy Klotz Fund (1979) KLR/Brian A. Altomari Memorial Fund (2017) Joseph E. Kochhan Fund (2019) • Susie Brown Kochhan Memorial Music Fund (1999) Korean War Memorial Fund (2004) Alfred and Mary Kosowski Fund (2013) Krause Family Fund (1994) Katherine Bryer Krueger Fund (1991) Hans L. Kuster Fund (2012) Ladies Auxiliary of the Bristol Volunteer Fire Department Fund (1982) A. Lloyd Lagerquist Fund (2003) Bruce Lang Good Government Fund of RI (2006) Langevin Family Trust (1990) Marie J. Langlois and John F. Loerke Fund (2011) Harold A. Lanphear Fund (1977) Ella M. Lapham Fund (1933) Alice W. Larchar Fund (1981) Laurans Fund (1979) Laurans Family Fund (2018) Isabelle Lawrence Fund (1992) Mary B. Lawrence Fund (2010) Lawrence, Allen, Singleteary Scholarship Fund (2008) p89

Le Foyer Endowment Fund (2015)

Linden Place Endowment Fund (2003)

Paul D. Lynch Scholarship Fund (2013)

Hon. Justice Victoria Santopietro Lederberg Classical High School Scholarship Fund (2017)

Frederick Lippitt Memorial Fund (2006)

Maria Lyssikatos Scholarship Fund (2007)

Charles P. Lee Memorial Fund (2012)

Frederick Lippitt Endowment for the Woonasquatucket River Watershed (2005)

Cynthia M. Macarchuk Donor Advised Fund (2008)

Helen L. LeGendre / Weber Family Scholarship Fund (2009)

Lippitt Hill Tutorial Founders Fund (1988)

Alvina Legere Fund (2004)

Lucy Lippitt Fund (1961)

Robert H. Lenth Scholarship Fund (1998)

Mary Ann Lippitt Memorial Fund (2007)

Barbara M. Leonard Fund (1986)

Lewis P. and Edna D. Lipsitt Fund (2013)

Louis Leone Fund (1998)

Arthur B. and Martha B. Lisle Fund (1968)

Dominick J. Lepore Memorial Fund (2009)

Judith M. & Henry M. Litchman Fund (2012)

Irving M. and Pauline L. Leven Fund (2001)

Judith M. & Henry M. Litchman Fund (2014)

Eunice and Harold Levene Family Memorial Donor Advised Fund (2018)

Little Compton Playground Fund (1988)

Eunice and Harold Levene Family Memorial Unrestricted Fund (2018)

Little Compton United Congregational Church Fund (1981) Little Compton United Congregational Church Fund (2007)

David R. Levesque Fund (2017)

Little Compton United Congregational Church Fund (2012)

Irving H. Levin Fund (2007)

Royal Little Memorial Fund (1994)

Frederick N. and Carol J. Levinger Fund (2003)

Stanley & Martha Livingston Fund (1997)

Dan Levinson RI Fund (2014)

Annie Mary Livsey Fund (1987)

Sarah and Harold Libby Scholarship Fund of the Chopin Club (2011)

Edith S. S. Loebs Fund (1981)

Mario M. Libutti Memorial Fund (2008) LIFEcycle Endowment Fund (2012) Alice Gertrude Lothrop Lincoln Fund (1959) Lincoln School Supported by: Lincoln School Education Fund (2011); Lincoln School Faculty Fund (2011); Lincoln School Lincoln Scholar Fund (2011); Lincoln School Operations/Unrestricted Fund (2011); Lincoln School Scholarship Fund (2011); Sudi Cumming ’63 Women in the Global Economy Fund (2015); Lincoln School Alexis Allen Boss ‘89 Endowment for Community Accord and Public Service Fund (2016); Lincoln School Celeste Cooper ‘64 Endowment (2016); Lincoln School Joseph R. and Jeffrey R. Paolino Fund (2017); Lincoln School Scholarship Bequest Fund (2017); Lincoln School Lowenstein Foundation Fund (2019); Lincoln School Mary Easton Swift Spence '39 Scholarship Fund (2019); Lincoln School Steam Hub Building Endowment Fund (2019); and Lincoln School Vivian Baker Treat '42 World Language Fund (2019) Marjorie H. and Clinton J. Lind Memorial Fund (2001)

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R. M. Logan Hospice Fund (2005) James J. Longolucco Scholarship Fund (1995) Looking Upwards Endowment Fund (2010) George W. Lothrop Fund (1970) Lovett Fund (1979)

Mary K. and Norman A. MacColl Fund (1967) MacColl Benevolent Fund (1973) Commander Michael MacDonald Fund (1982) Ronald K. and Kati C. Machtley Fund (2007) MacKeen Family Fund (2014) William M. and Louise Barr Mackenzie Fund (1975) Kathy and Brian MacLean Fund (2014) N. Douglas MacLeod Fund (2009) James and Jean Schofield Madden Family Fund (2000) Sally Wing Madeira Memorial Fund (1988) Virginia T. Madeira Fund (1982)

Master Gardener Foundation of Rhode Island Endowment Fund (2012) Matouk Family Fund (2013) Rose Grinnell Matteson Audubon Society of RI Fund (2008) Rose Grinnell Matteson Fund (1966) Rose Grinnell Matteson/Exeter Fund (1990) Duncan H. and Louise Safe Mauran Fund (1986) Estise Mauran Museum Concerts Fund (2016) Maurania/Rainbow Fund (2013) Edmund and Janet Mauro Button Hole Scholarship Fund (2004) John and Elaine Mayer Fund for the Rhode Island Zoological Society (2009) Cheryl Smith Mayhew Westerly High School Athletic Scholarship (2005) Maxwell Mays Audubon Society Fund (2010)

Elizabeth Ann Magee Memorial Fund (1964)

Marian S. McAuslan & Frederic T. McAuslan Endowment Fund (2006)

MaGown-Roberts Endowment Fund (1999)

David McCahan, Jr. and Nancy F. McCahan Fund (2015)

Make Someone Smile Fund (2016)

Charles E. and Agnes J. McCarthy Memorial Scholarship Fund (2008)

Michael M. Makokian Fund (2017) Mark P. Malkovich III Memorial Fund (2010) Gustaf T. Malmstead Fund (1996) Mancini Family Fund (2018) Bhikhaji Maneckji Fund (2013) Michael Marcogliese Scholarship Fund (1989)

Arthur McCartney Fund (1965) McCleary Family Fund (2015) Dorothy S. McCluskey Fund (2016) McConnell Family Fund (2010) Ted McConnon Scholarship Fund (1999) McCulloch Fields at St. Andrew’s Farm Fund (2017)

Michael F. Lovett Scholarship Fund (1994)

Ron Margolin and W. Lynn McKinney Scholarship Fund for GLTQ Youth (2011)

Edgar J. Lownes Memorial Fund (1958)

Ruth and Samuel Markoff Fund (2013)

Mary E. McCulloch Fund (1989)

Raymond J. Loynds Memorial Fund (2002)

Alita C. Marks Endowment Fund (2005)

Norman E. and Dorothy R. McCulloch Fund (1994)

Fordyce Remsen Lozier & Mary Williams Horr Lozier Fund (1993)

John and Sheila Martin Professional Development Fund (2015)

Norman E. McCulloch, Jr. and Dorothy Rooke McCulloch Fund for St. John’s Church (2008)

Edna P. Lumb Fund (1967) Edward G. Lund Fund (1993) Tori Lyle Fund (2017)

Martland Selby Bell Choir Fund (2002) Mary A. Mason Fund (1971) Stanley H. Mason Fund (1979)

Dorothy R. McCulloch Fund (2015)

Gloria McDonald Fund (1996) Gloria McDonald Fund for St. Mary’s Church (2003) Liz and Jack McDonald Fund (2010)

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J. Irving McDowell Fund (1995)

Arthur and Martha Milot Fund (1990)

Mullaney Fund (1997)

Bernard and Doris Nemtzow Fund (2013)

Joseph T. and Rose P. McHale Fund (1988)

Arthur and Martha Milot Fund for Community Preparatory School (2015)

Mullen Family Fund (2001)

Jeraline N. Nerney Fund (2001)

Lila K. Mullins Fund (2015)

Never Without Kindness Fund (2018)

Murphy Family Fund (2014)

New England Wireless and Steam Museum Fund (2000)

Mitchell Family Fund (1985)

John and Grace Murphy Fund for Youth (2009)

New Urban Arts Endowment Fund (2017)

Dorothy Carol Mitchell Charitable Fund (2014)

Major Jeremiah P. Murphy Scholarship Fund (2006)

TGHS ’82 Renee Tetreault Newell 9/11 Scholarship Fund (2001)

Robert D. and Mary G. Mitchell Fund (2009)

Murray Family Prize for Community Enrichment (2016)

MJSA Education Foundation Scholarship Fund (1989)

Catherine T. Murray Scholarship Fund (1994)

Thomas & Maureen Moakley Fund (2018)

J. Terrence Murray Fund (2004)

Newman Congregational Church Supported by: Newman Congregational Church John F. and Dorothy H. Conley Family Scholarship Fund (2014) and Newman Congregational Church / Jeffrey Stephen Shank Memorial Scholarship Fund (2016)

Nasra and Abdullah Mogayzel and Sons Fund (2007)

Thomas J. Murray Memorial Fund (2015)

Frederick J. & Ruth P. Newman Fund (2005)

J. Harold Monroe, Jr. Scholarship Fund (1993)

Musica Dolce Endowment Fund (2006)

Selma and Arthur Newman Fund (2000)

Heidi Keller Moon Fund (2001)

Colin Myers Memorial Fund (2004)

Newport County Development Council Fund (2019) •

Moore Fund (1998) (2)

Emma L. Myrick Memorial Fund (1938)

Moore Family Arts and Education Fund (2015)

John C. Myrick Fund (1997)

Nicholas C. and Allison M. Moore Fund (2017)

Nadler Family Fund (2013)

Nora Wood Moore Memorial Scholarship Fund (2004)

Narragansett Public Library Endowment Fund (1996)

Newport County Fund (2002) Supported by: Anne and Peter Damon Fund for Newport County (2005); John and Holly Collins Fund for Newport County (2008); Ellen S. Murphy Memorial Fund (2008); NSG Education Fund in Memory of Ellen S. Murphy (2008); and Dominick J. Lepore Memorial Fund (2009)

Alice L. Moran Fund (1956)

Russell Morin Fine Catering Fund (2012)

Narrow River Preservation Association Supported by: Narrow River Preservation Association/John Elder Dick Endowment Fund (2004); Narrow River Preservation Association/Carl W. Otto Endowment Fund (2007); Narrow River Preservation Association/Robert Leeson, Jr. Endowment Fund (2009); Narrow River Preservation Association/Robert J. Gormley Endowment Fund (2015); and Narrow River Preservation Association/Richard B. Grant Endowment Fund (2018)

Ann Morris Female Athlete Scholarship Fund (2018)

Nassif Memorial Fund (2019)

Al Morro Classical Varsity Club Scholarship Fund (1965)

National Society of the Colonial Dames of America of Rhode Island (NSCDARI) Supported by: Governor Stephen Hopkins House Capital Expenditure Fund (2000); Governor Stephen Hopkins House Endowment Fund (2000); NSCDARI Endowment Fund (2000); NSCDARI Reinvestment Fund (2000); Whitehall Museum House Capital Expenditure Fund (2000); and Whitehall Museum House Endowment Fund (2000)

Thomas P. and Katherine A. McHale Fund (1990) Anna Louise McInerney Fund (1982) Reverend Harry W. McIntire/Washington Oaks Youth Fund (2004) H. Stanford McLeod Fund (1993) McQuade Family Fund (2019) • Judith McSoley Fund for Children (2018) Bishop Russell J. McVinney Fund for the Poor (1988) Jeanne Marie Mehmed Fund (2013) Gladys and Raymond W. Mellor Fund (1983) Gladys W. and Raymond W. Mellor Fund (1987) Joseph B. Merrick Fund (1987) Della Fusco Merrill Memorial Fund (2013) Merrylegs Fund (1988) Alice Butts Metcalf Fund (1945) Louisa D. Sharpe Metcalf Fund (1959) Jesse H. Metcalf Fund (1916) Michael P. Metcalf Legacy Fund (2016) Michael P. Metcalf Memorial Fund (1989) Jeremy David Metnick Fund (1998) Gary Metz Fellowship for Photography Fund (2014) Terry A. Meyer Fund (2014) Friends of the Middletown Public Library Endowment Fund (2003)

Arthur & Martha Milot Fund for Kingston Chamber Music Festival (2017)

Mary Morello Fund (2006) Stephen P. Morenzi Scholarship Fund (2018) Brian Moretti Scholarship Fund (2014)

Al Morro Fund for Academic and Athletic Excellence (1986) Al Morro Awards Fund (1997)

Newport Public Library Endowment Fund (2004) Newport Restaurant Group Fund (1983) Albert E. and Florence W. Newton Fund (1973) Alice Newton Fund (1984) Irene Nicholas Fund (2007) William Nicholas Scholarship Fund (1999) Emily Nicholson Fund (1997) Emily Nicholson Designated Fund (2014) Gordon D. Noonan Memorial Scholarship Fund (2014) Norman Bird Sanctuary Support Fund (2010)

Migliori-Cattabriga Fund (2017)

Judy Morse Scholarship Fund (1990)

Dr. Eric Bradley Miller Fund (2009)

Lester F. Morse and Beatrice R. Morse Memorial Fund (2008)

John Manchester Miller Fund (1998)

Rev. Phyllis Morse Memorial Fund (1992)

Friends of the National Wildlife Refuges of Rhode Island Fund (2016)

North Kingstown Free Library Supported by: North Kingstown Free Library Corporation Fund (1996) and North Kingstown Free Library Corporation Second Century Fund (2008)

Larry Mills Memorial Fund (2014)

Stanley T. and Grace W. Moskwa Fund (1999)

Dorothy D. Nelle Fund (1994)

North Providence High School Scholarship Fund (2010)

Jean Smith Mills Memorial Fund (2006)

Mount Hope Farm Endowment Fund (2007)

Jane S. Nelson Fund (1994)

Arthur C. Milot Memorial Fund (2019)

James C. Muldowney Fund (2016)

Bernard and Doris Nemtzow Fund (2007)

North Smithfield Ambulance and Rescue Association Fund (2003)

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North Smithfield – Class of 1971 Memorial Scholarship Fund (2004)

John Raymond Parker, Jr. Memorial Scholarship Fund (1995)

Theresa Rossi Petrella College Fund (2017)

Lombard John Pozzi Historical Preservation Fund (2013)

Phebe Parker Fund (1959)

Petroleum Trust Fund (1964)

Charles T. Pratt Fund (1938)

R. Elizabeth Parker Fund (2006)

Esther S. Phillips Fund (1987)

Rita A. Pratt Memorial Fund (2019) •

Bob and Terry Nugent Family Foundation (1992)

Parkhurst Fund (2019) •

W. E. Phillips Fund (2018)

Preservation Society of Pawtucket Fund (2013)

Robert C. Nyman Fund (1997)

Madeline V. Parks Fund (1961)

Rick Phipps Memorial Fund (2004)

Preserve Rhode Island Endowment Fund (2014)

Virginia W. Nyman Fund (2005)

Parris Family Fund (2001)

Nicholas Everett & Ann O. Picchione Fund (1995)

Preserving Pawtucket Fund (2017)

Oak Lawn Community Baptist Church Living Memorial Fund (1987)

Partnership Foundation Fund (2001)

Pickard Family Fund (2007)

Preston Family Fund (2002)

Patton Family Fund (1983)

Vernon and Mary Pierce Fund (2013)

proAbility Fund (2015)

Bessie D. Paul Fund (1981)

Wells M. Pile and Marguerite Ofria Pile Fund (2005)

Pawtucket East High School Class of ’42 Scholarship Fund (1987)

Maria E. Pinheiro Memorial Scholarship Fund (2004)

Providence Animal Rescue League’s Harry L. Doran Endowment Fund (2016)

Christine A. Nowak Fund for the Blackstone Valley Historical Society (2012)

Ocean State Job Lot Trinity Resident Artist Charitable Fund (2017) Joan M. and John J. O’Connor Jr. Fund (2013) Marian G. O’Donnell Fund (1977) OHM Collection Fund (2017) Oliver Fund (2008) Daniel Patrick O’Neil Memorial Fund (2007) Nick O’Neill Scholarship Fund for All Children’s Theater (2004) Open Doors of Rhode Island, Inc., Charitable Fund (1979)

Pawtucket East High School Class of ’48 Scholarship Fund (1993) Pawtucket Public Library Supported by: Friends of the Pawtucket Public Library Endowment Fund (2011) and Friends of the Pawtucket Public Library Flexible Endowment Fund (2011) Pawtucket Public Library History Research Center Fund (2019) Pawtucket Soup Kitchen Endowment Fund (2018)

William ‘Billy’ Pityer Memorial Scholarship Fund (1999)

Providence Art Club Endowment Fund (2019) •

Pocassetlands Stewardship Fund (2007)

Providence Center Supported by: Providence Center/Charles E. Maynard Fund for the Future (2001) and Providence Center School/Charles E. Maynard Fund for the Future (2004)

Friends of Pomham Rocks Lighthouse Endowment Fund (2018)

Providence Central Lions Fund (1993)

Ponaganset Education Foundation Fund (2007)

Providence Council of Parents and Teachers Scholarship Fund (1926)

Albert R. Plant Fund (1958)

Barbara J. Pond Fund (2007)

Ophelia Fund (2004)

Shirley and Kenneth Payne Fund (2018)

Walter M. Oppenheim Fund (1998)

Charlotte Orlowski-Eicher Memorial Fund (2005)

Peace Dale Museum of Art and Culture Supported by: Peace Dale Museum of Art and Culture Fund (1998); Peace Dale Museum of Art and Culture Wallace Campbell III Endowment Fund (2005); and Peace Dale Museum of Art and Culture Education Fund (2011)

Bernard and Henrietta O’Rourke Scholarship Fund (2008)

Pearlman Charitable Fund (2017)

Richard and Sandra Oster Charitable Fund (2009)

Thomas and Erma Wood Peirce Cemetery Fund (2019)

Joseph O’Neill Ott Fund (1994)

Carol Pellegrino Scholarship Fund (1999)

Emily H. Paine Fund (1977)

Art Pelosi Fund (1993)

Jewel R. Paley Fund (2014)

Charlotte I. Penn Fund (1993)

Julius and Jesse Richmond Palmer Fund (1968)

Pennfield School Endowment Fund (2014)

Mary V. Palmer Memorial Fund (1970)

George W. and Sarah L. Penny Fund (1978)

Roger E. Potter Fund for The Rhode Island Historical Society (1995)

Providence Country Day School Supported by: Providence Country Day School/Chafee Leadership Forum Endowment (2002); Providence Country Day School/Evan R. West Professional Development Fund (2002); Providence Country Day School General Endowment Fund (2002); Providence Country Day School/Heather MacLeod Middle School Scholarship (2002); Providence Country Day School/Murray Family Scholarship Fund (2002); Providence Country Day School/St. Dunstan’s Learning Center Fund (2002); Providence Country Day School/George E. Wilson, Jr. ’43 Memorial Scholarship Fund (2002); Providence Country Day School/Gerald Beckley Woodruff Faculty Enrichment Fund (2002); Providence Country Day School/Nancy M. Hanley Award Fund (2003); Providence Country Day School/William H. Mather Flag Fund (2003); Providence Country Day School/Trustees’ Endowment for the Annual Fund (2009); Providence Country Day School/Wrestling Coaches Appreciation Fund (2009); Susan M. Haberlandt Fund for Faculty Enrichment (2012); Providence Country Day School/Raymond H. and Alice E. Chace Fund (2013); Providence Country Day School/Evan R. West Scholarship Fund (2013); Edward E. Ford Foundation/Class of 2015 Endowment for Faculty Compensation Fund (2015); Kenneth R. Graboys Community Service Prize Fund (2015); Peter James and Margaret A. Ryan Hicks Endowed Scholarship Fund (2015); and Dickerman Diamond Fund (2019)

Marc C. Paradis Memorial Fund (2017)

Annie T. Perrin Fund (1956)

Roger E. Potter Fund (1995)

Providence Female Charitable Society Fund (2016)

Nellie G. Parent Fund (1966)

Donald I. Perry Fund (1996)

Thomas A. Potter Fund (2004)

Providence High School Scholarship Fund (1922)

Roland Paris Fund (2015)

Thomas and Katherine B. Perry Fund (2011)

Lori A. Poulin Memorial Fund (2004)

Providence Jewelers Club Foundation (1986)

Operation Stand Down Rhode Island Veterans Endowment Fund (2016)

Mary and Pat O’Regan Fund (1992)

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Pawtuxet Valley Preservation and Historical Society Fund (2010)

Franklin H. Pond Family Fund (2007) Franklin H. Pond Fund (2006) Lawrence Poole, Jr. Scholarship Fund (2004) Pope John XXIII Chair in Ecumenical Theology Fund (1988) Porter Braden Fund (2017) Frances L. Macartney Porter Fund (2011) Stevenson Brown Porter Fund (2011) Potter Family Fund (2004) Charles A. Potter Fund (1975) (2) Earlene and Albert Potter Scholarship Fund (2001) Mary LeMoine Potter Fund (1940)

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Providence Journal Charitable Legacy Fund (2012)

Redgate Camp Davis Fund (1995)

Rhode Island Scholarship Assistance Fund (2007)

Roberts Family Fund (2017)

Providence Journal Holiday Fund (2014)

Redwood Library RIF Endowment Fund (2015)

Colonel Lee Walton and Xenia Roberts Memorial Fund (2013)

Providence Journal Summertime Fund (2013)

Lindsay T. Reed Fund for the East Side/Mt. Hope YMCA (2009)

Rhode Island School for the Deaf/John Spellman Scholarship Fund (1989)

Providence Lions Scholarship Fund (2019) •

Alice M. Remington Scholarship Fund (1984)

Rhode Island Society of Certified Public Accountants Philanthropy Fund (2012)

Providence Plantations Club Memorial (1970)

Barbara Reynolds Memorial Scholarship Fund (2001)

Rhode Island Supreme Court Historical Society Fund (1998)

Janet L. Robinson Fund (2018)

Providence Plantations Club Memorial Fund (1970)

Madeline Reynolds Memorial Fund (1969)

Rhode Island Tree Council Fund (2001)

Selma Pilavin Robinson Endowment Fund (1992)

Providence Preservation Society Fund (2005)

Richard A. Reynolds Fund (2019)

Robinson-Kenney Fund (2015)

Fund of the Providence Shelter for Colored Children (2014)

Rhode Island Advertising Club Fund (1979)

Rhode Island Veterinary Medical Association (RIVMA) Companion Animal Fund (2007)

Providence Shelter for Colored Children Endowment Fund (2016)

Rhode Island Arts Fund (1985)

Providence Singers Wachner Fund for New Music (2006) Providence Technical High School Athletic Field Scholarship (1940) Mary C. and Joseph E. Pucci Fund (1999) Coach PZs Scholarship Fund (2019) • Helen Walker Raleigh Animal Fund (2006) Helen Walker Raleigh Tree Care Trust Fund (1995) Helen Walker Raleigh Vision Fund (2006) Helen Walker Raleigh Youth Fund (2006) James C. Raleigh Memorial Fund (2006) Raleigh-Providence Tree Care Trust Fund (1998) Rallis Conover Fund (2005) Raponi Funds Includes: Eleuterio, Anna, and Mary Raponi Memorial Fund (2009); Ralph and Letty Raponi Fund (2010); Frank J. Raponi Memorial Fund (2013); Ralph and Letty Raponi Fund for Meals on Wheels-RI (2015); Frank A. Spino Memorial Fund (2016); Letty A. (Spino) Raponi Memorial Fund (2017); Ralph and Letty Raponi Charitable Fund (2017); Ralph and Letty Raponi Tribute Fund (2017); and Ralph and Letty Raponi Legacy Fund (2018) Raven Fund (1999) RDW Group, Inc. Minority Scholarship Fund for Communications (2000)

Rhode Island Association of Former Legislators Scholarship Fund (1996)

Eileen Julie and Brittany Jaye Richardson Memorial Fund (2005) Edythe K. & Jane E. Richmond Memorial Cancer Fund (1998)

Rhode Island Charities Trust (1991)

John M. Richmond Fund (1953)

Rhode Island Commission on Women/Freda H. Goldman Education Awards Fund (1997)

Richard J. and Barbara L. Richmond Fund (1996)

Rhode Island Council for the Humanities Supported by: Barry A. Marks Fund for the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities (1984); Rhode Island Council for the Humanities Endowment Fund (2005); and Rhode Island Council for the Humanities/Tom Roberts Humanities Ingenuity Prize Fund (2005)

Richard J. and Barbara L. Richmond Designated Fund (1996) Richard J. Richmond Fund (2003)

Elizabeth Robinson Fund (1959)

Frederic L. Rockefeller and Janet B. Rockefeller Fund (2018) Familia Rodriguez Fund (2002) Alice Williams Roe-Grenier Fund (2015) Roger Williams Baptist Church Endowment Fund (2012) Roger Williams Chair in Thomistic Philosophy Fund (1988) Roger Williams Park Fund (2015) Roger Williams Park Zoo Endowment Fund (1986) Friends of Rogers Free Library Endowment Fund (2009)

Frances Waterhouse Richmond Fund (2012)

Friends of Rogers Free Library Children’s Endowment Fund (1987)

Ray Rickman Fund for African Doctors (2007)

Rogers High School Class of 1961 Scholarship Fund (2011)

Rhode Island 4-H Club Foundation Memorial Fund (2013)

Martha Rieg Fund (2012)

Rose and Aaron Roitman Fund (1982)

Rhode Island Foundation Employee Fund (1993)

Marcia and Robert Riesman Fund (1997)

Aaron Roitman Fund for Chamber Music (1982)

Rhode Island Free Clinic Endowment (2017)

RIGHA Foundation Fund (2010)

Rooks Family Fund (2015)

Rhode Island Historical Society Endowment Fund (2016)

Right Charitable Fund (2015)

Herman H. Rose Civic, Cultural and Media Access Fund (1986)

Rhode Island Legal Services Endowment Fund (2006)

Harry Vandall Rigner Memorial Fund (1979)

Rosenberg and Kohorn Fund (2001)

Rhode Island Meals on Wheels Memorial Fund (1981)

Henry and Jan Rines Fund (1998)

Ross Family Fund (2019) •

Rhode Island Medical Society Medical Purpose Fund (1966)

RISE Conservation Fund (1997)

Alan R. Rote, MD Fund (2019) •

Rhode Island National Guard Living Memorial Care and Maintenance Fund (2014)

Jeanne Risica Fund for Art Education (2011)

Rougas-Quinn Family Fund (2006)

Ernest and Mary A. Ritchie Memorial Fund (1995)

Edward J. and Virginia M. Routhier Fund (2002)

Paula M. Rivard Memorial Fund (2005)

Edward J. and Virginia M. Routhier Nursing Faculty Endowment Fund (2003)

Rhode Island PBS Scholarship Fund (2017)

John H. Reardon, Jr. Fund (2012) John J. Redding Fund (2003)

Rhode Island Rose Award Fund (1985)

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Ricci Family Fund (2011)

Rhode Island Association for Justice Endowment Fund (2011)

Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra & Music School Supported by: Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra & Music School Endowment Fund (2015) and Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra & Music School - The Hearst Endowment (2015)

Edith Reall Memorial Scholarship Fund (1992)

RIBA/Dagata Scholarship Fund (1997)

Robin Hill Fund (2013)

Jennifer Rivera Memorial Fund (2015) Riverwood Endowment Fund (2005)

Edward J. and Virginia M. Routhier Nursing Scholarship Fund (2003)

Gwennie Anne Robbins Memorial Fund (1994)

Cheryl A. Ruggiero Scholarship Fund (2004)

Dr. Robert F. Roberti Fund (1992)

Ruggiero/Reinhardt Family Fund (2009) p97

Ruhl Family Fund (2004)

Monica P. and William T. Sawyer Fund (2014)

Peggy and Henry Sharpe Fund (1994)

George E. Smith Fund (1964)

Dr. Joseph L.C. and Mary P. Ruisi Fund (1999)

Dr. Edmund A. Sayer Fund (1987)

William H. Sheehan and Sandra A. Behar Memorial Fund (1999)

Jack & Patricia Smith Fund (2002)

Tom Russell Scholarship Fund (1989)

Minna Schachter Fund (2008)

Amelia Daggett Sheffield Fund (2011)

John W. Smith Fund (1981)

Barbara Flinker Ruttenberg Fund (2018)

Willard and Marjorie Scheibe Designated Fund (2009)

Nathaniel W. and Mabel C. Smith Fund (2007)

Rykat Fund (2013)

Willard and Marjorie Scheibe Nursing Scholarship Fund (2010)

Phebe McAlpine Shepard Fund in Memory of John Shepard II, Edward B. and Phebe W. McAlpine (1986)

George M. and Barbara H. Sage Fund (2007)

Schmieding Orlando Patient – Focused Nursing Fund (2005)

Saul B. Saila Fellowship Fund (2007)

Cantor Schneider Memorial Scholarship Fund (2014)

Saint Cabrini Fund (2004)

Ron Schoepfer Memorial Fund (2010)

Saint Elizabeth Community Fund for Quality Eldercare in RI (2017)

Fannie M. Schrack Fund (1928)

S. Stephen’s Church Music Fund (1999) Friends of Sakonnet Lighthouse Fund (1985) Marissa Salabert Memorial Scholarship Fund (2014) Norton E. Salk Scholarship Fund (2008) Salten Weingrod Family Fund (2007) Andrew & Frances Salvadore Scholarship Fund (1989) Michael A. Salvadore and A. Doris Salvadore Scholarship Fund (2013)

Marilyn Swan Miller Schultz Fund (2014) Mary and Michael Schwartz Fund (1999) Scituate Scholarship Fund (2012) Scone Fund (2017) Roger G. Scott Memorial Fund (1996) R. Gordon and Patricia C. Scott Fund (2008) MaryAnn Scott Charitable Fund (2013) Gertrude P. Scruggs Memorial Fund (1999)

Samaritans Fund (2006)

Seaberg-Sleicher Memorial Fund (2007)

San Miguel School Supported by: Brother Lawrence Goyette, FSC Scholarship Fund (2011) and San Miguel School Endowment Fund (2010)

Benjamin Seabury Fund (1954)

Juanita Sanchez Community Fund (1992)

Anthony J. Serio Scholarship Fund (2010)

Bridget Sanetti Memorial Scholarship Fund (2003)

Lance Corporal Matthew K. Serio Football Scholarship Fund (2005)

Sapinsley Family Foundation (1970) Nancy Sarah Fund for Women (2006) Francis B. Sargent MD Fund (1995) Sargent Rehabilitation Center Fund (2016) Jacqueline Gage Sarles Memorial Fund (1968) Clare Sartori and Art Stein Fund (2012) Deputy Assistant Chief Anthony V. Sauro Award Endowment Fund (1991) Savage and Luther Family Fund (1998) George and Naomi Sawyer Memorial Fund (1991) p98

Otto and Gertrude K. Seidner Fund (1987)

Edwin F. Sherman Fund (1972) Alfred Sherrard Fund (2006) Shippee Family Fund (2006)

Friends of Smithfield Rotary Scholarship Fund (2004) Smith’s Castle Fund (1998) Dianne B. Snyder Memorial Fund (2002)

Leonard J. Sholes Fund (2008)

Socio-Economic Development Center for Southeast Asians Endowment Fund (2001)

Shramek Fund (2005)

Sock/Myers Memorial Fund (2016)

Janet E. Shuster Special Education Fund (2018)

Sojourner House Endowment Fund (2015)

Ilon Sillman/Sara Andrews Endowment Fund (1997)

Solomon Charitable Fund (2019) •

Silver Family Fund (2001)

Soloveitzik/Rhode Island for Community and Justice Fund (1992)

Silver-Haspel Family Fund (2012) Milton J. Silverman Endowment Fund (1993)

Harold B. Soloveitzik/American Association of University Women Fund (1992)

Saul A. Silverman Endowment Fund of IODA (2019) •

Harold B. Soloveitzik Fund (1986)

Simchi-Levi Charitable Fund (2007) Aline J. Simoens Memorial Fund (1994)

Sophia Academy Supported by: Sophia Academy Endowment Fund (2017) and Gigi DiBello Fund for Social Justice Education (2018)

Peter H. Simoens Memorial Fund (1994)

Lewis D. Sorrentino Fund (2004)

Godfrey B. Simonds Memorial Fund (1926)

Lily and Catello Sorrentino Memorial Scholarship Fund (1978)

Walter Simpson Fund (1966)

Edith B. Soule Fund (1999)

Sinclair Family Fund (2014)

South County Ambulance and Rescue Corps Fund (2002)

Elizabeth Hope Singsen and Edward L. Singsen Fund (1982)

South County Art Association Supported by: South County Art Association Founder’s Fund (2016) and South County Art Association Fund (2016)

Serra Family Scholarship Fund (2017)

Theodore R. Sizer Fund for Education Reform (1998)

Serve Rhode Island Fund for the Volunteer Center of RI (2005)

Abby M. B. Slade Memorial Fund (1960)

Neil and Jean Severance Family Fund (2007)

Florence M. Smart Fund (1976)

Dr. Sarkis M. and Mrs. Mary A. Shaghalian Fund (2011)

Eugenia Smetisko Fund (2002)

Doctors Shapiro and Nager Pets in Need Fund (2017)

Charles Morris and Ruth H. T. Smith Fund (2001)

Eve Widgoff Shapiro Fund (2003)

Charles Stuart Smith Fund (2019)

South County Habitat for Humanity Supported by: South County Habitat for Humanity Endowment Fund (2012) and Lou Raymond Building Endowment Fund (2018)

Ellen D. Sharpe Fund (1954)

Dorothy Hackney Smith Fund (1980)

South County Health Medical Staff Scholarship Fund (2018)

Mary Elizabeth Sharpe Providence Neighborhood Planting Program Fund (1988)

Ellen and Harry Smith Fund (2010)

South County Garden Club of Rhode Island Supported by: South County Garden Club of RI/Margaret Dunbar Fund (2004) and South County Garden Club of RI/ Susan B. Wilson Fund (2010)

Eric and Peggy Smith Family Fund (2001) p99

South County Museum Supported by: South County Museum Endowment Fund (1996) and South County Museum Rhode Island Red Endowment Fund (2004) South Kingstown Education Foundation Fund (2003) Southern Rhode Island Volunteers Fund (2019) • Southside Elementary Charter School Fund (2016) Soutter Family Fund (2013) Virginia and Thomas Soutter Fund for Dorcas Place (2010) Spartina Fund (2007) Mary C. Speare Charitable Fund (2017) James L. Spears Charitable Fund (2005) St. Martin’s Church Endowed Pledges Fund (2015) Madeline Standish Fund (2010) Staples Family Fund (1986) Dennis E. Stark and Robert F. Amarantes Fund (2000) Starkweather & Shepley Charitable Fund (2010) Station Nightclub Fire Children’s Scholarship Fund (2004) Henry A. Stearns Fund (1977) Cameron Duke Stebbins Memorial Fund (2001) Linda A. Steere and Edward R. DiLuglio Fund (2013) Shirley Steere, Battey-Campbell Memorial, and Book Endowment Fund (2013)

Sylvia Street Fund in Memory of Ruth Ely (1981)

Hope L. Thornton Fund (2001)

UBS Rhode Island Fund (2004)

John O. Strom, MD Memorial Fund (2008)

Thorp Family Scholarship Fund (2006)

United Builders Supply Company, Inc. Fund (1980)

Mary Lou Strong Fund (2018)

Tides Family Services Endowment Fund (2017)

United Italian American Inc. Scholarship Fund (2008)

William J. and Judith D. Struck Fund (2005)

James E. Tiernan Memorial Fund (2005)

Sturges Fund for Grace Church (2008)

Albert Harris Tillinghast Fund (1949)

Suglia Family Fund (2016)

Tiverton Land Trust Fund (2000)

Sullivan Family Fund (1996)

Tiverton Library Endowment Fund (2017)

United Way of Rhode Island Supported by: United Way of Rhode Island Endowment Fund (1990); United Way/Boss Family Fund for Learning Opportunities (1995); United Way of Rhode Island Fund (1995); Emma and Ely Oppenheimer Fund (1997); Naomi and Viola Osterman Fund (1998); and Peggy and Henry Sharpe Fund for the United Way (1998)

Alice Sullivan Memorial Fund (2004)

Clinton and Mary Tompkinson Memorial Fund (2010)

United Welfare Committee Fund (1982)

Daniel and Kathleen Sullivan Fund (2012)

Peter and Sunny Toulmin Fund (1986)

Universal Homes, Inc. Fund (1978)

Thomas F. Sullivan Memorial Fund (2007)

Lilly C. Tow Fund (2015)

Bruce and Marjorie Sundlun Scholarship Fund (1990)

Geraldine Tower Education Fund (2002)

Kim and Howard Sutton Fund (2015)

Town Dock Charitable Fund (2017)

Urban League of Rhode Island Supported by: B. Jae Clanton Scholarship Fund of the Urban League of Rhode Island (1990); Andrew Bell Scholarship Fund (2004); and Urban League of Rhode Island Scholarship Fund (2004)

Helen E. Swanson Fund (2003)

Christopher Townsend-Child and Family Services of Newport County Fund (2007)

Jeffrey L. Swanson Memorial Scholarship (2016) Miss Swinburne Fund (2002) Anne and Michael Szostak Fund (2009) Richard W. Szumita Memorial Scholarship Fund (2001) Hope and Roland Talbot Fund (1979) Helen E. Talcott Fund (1930) Tamburro Family Charitable Fund (2015) David D. Tarnapol Scholarship Fund (2006)

Steinberg-Shao Family Fund (2008)

Martin L. and Charlotte H. Tarpy Fund (2000)

Doris Stephens Mariposa Fund (2014)

Melissa and Peter Tassinari Fund (2003)

Myriam Stettler, RN Nursing Scholarship Fund (2018)

C. George Taylor Fund (1999)

Ronald G. Stevens and Patricia E. Moore Fund (2013)

Taylor Strong Charitable Fund (2017)

Frank M. Stewart Fund (2012)

Arthur L. Teal, Sr. Scholarship Fund (2018)

William Laverne Stillman and Elizabeth C. Stillman (Class of ‘33) Scholarship Fund (2008)

Michael E. Tellier Scholarship Fund (2004)

Robert N. and Corinne P. Stoecker Fund (1984) Stone Bridge Volunteer Fire Department Scholarship Fund (1991) Henry A. Street Fund (1956)

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Temple Habonim Supported by: Temple Habonim Endowment Fund (2013); Temple Habonim – Pollock Fund (2016); and Temple Habonim – Zelkind Fund (2016)

Christopher Townsend-Newport Public Library Fund (2007) Agnes Meade Tramonti Memorial Scholarship Fund (1998) Trinity Repertory Company Supported by: Ed Hall Memorial Fund (1991); Peter Kaplan Memorial Fund for Trinity Rep (1997); Buff & Johnnie Chace Endowment Fund (2001); Doris Duke Endowment Fund (2001); Trinity Repertory Company General Endowment Fund (2001); Richard Kavanaugh Memorial Fund (2001); Elaine Rakatansky Memorial Fund (2004); Oskar Eustis Endowment Fund for New Play Development (2005); John & Yvette Harpootian Fund for Trinity Rep. (2005); Tilles Family Endowment Fund (2005); Stephen Hamblett Memorial Fund (2006); Claiborne and Nuala Pell Fund for Arts Education (2009); Richard Cumming Endowment Fund for Musical Programming (2012); Victoria Irene Ball Fund for Theater Education (2013); Margo Skinner Memorial Fellowship Fund (2013); Robert Clayton Black Memorial Fellowship Fund (2014); Michael and Donna Lee Gennaro Fund of the Fund for Trinity Repertory Company (2015); Barbara Meek Memorial Fund (2016); Heidi Keller Moon Fund for Project Discovery (2017); and The Project Discovery Endowment Fund (2017) Nancy E. and Fred R. Tripp Fund (2018) Raymond H. Trott Scholarship Fund (1980) Troy Fund (1979) Constance Kane Tucker Fund (2015)

Test Fund (2013)

Barbara M. Tufts Memorial Fund (2002)

Rupert C. Thompson Fund (1987) (2)

Frances S. and Stuart K. Tuttle Fund (1998)

Anne Utter Fund for the Performing Arts (2006) Jessie G. Valleau Fund (1967) Valley Breeze Scholarship Fund (2017) Valley Resources Fund in honor of Charles Goss, Eleanor McMahon, & Melvin Alperin (1993) Willard Boulette Van Houten and Margaret Lippiatt Van Houten Fund (1991) Louis J. Van Orden Fund (1990) Margaret Hanley Van Orden Fund (2007) Margaret Hanley Van Orden Scholarship Fund (2007) Dr. Stanley Van Wagner Memorial Scholarship Fund (1987) Richard Vangermeersch Fund (2013) Doctor Domenic A. Vavala Charitable Fund (2006) Dominique Velociter Founder’s Endowment Fund (2014) Venard Fund (1988) Veterans Memorial Auditorium Endowment Fund (2014) William A. Viall Fund (1939) Scott F. Viera Memorial Fund (2017) Anthony F. Vincent Fund (2015) Vinny Animal Welfare Fund (2009)

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Alice Viola Fund (1998)

Warren Land Conservation Trust Endowment Fund (2017)

Erskine N. White, Jr. and Eileen Lutz White Fund (2017)

Harry Yaghjian Trust Fund (1997)

Vogel, Califano, Dimase, Iannuccilli Fund (2001)

Lucy M. Warren Fund (1947)

Maureen A. and Christopher D. White Memorial Fund (2001)

Dr. James J. Yashar Charitable Family Fund (2007)

Nondas Hurst Voll Scholarship Fund (2006)

Robert W. Warren Fund (1989)

Wilbur Fund (1984)

Judge Marjorie Yashar Charitable Fund (2008)

Volunteer Services for Animals Supported by: Volunteer Services for Animals Humane Education Fund (2007) and Volunteer Services for Animals­­ — Warwick­­ — Humane Education Fund (2008)

Warwick Public Library Supported by: Warwick Public Library Endowment Fund (1999) and Janice Percie DiFranco Fund (2019)

Frederick B. Wilcox Endowment Fund (2016)

Carol Hudson Young Fund (2015)

Mary E. Wilcox Fund (2007)

Sergeant Cornel Young Jr. Scholarship Fund (2000)

Washington County Veterans Council Endowment Fund (2013)

Virginia A. Wilcox Fund (1990)

James A. Young Fund (1974)

Water Works 4 Women Fund (2002)

Wildlife Conservation Fund (1966)

Jason Ellis Young Memorial Fund (2008)

Martha W. Watt Fund (1973)

Willett Free Library Endowment Fund (2016)

Mary A. Young Fund (1990)

Wax-Cali Philanthropic Fund (2015)

Joanna Pozzi Williams Scholarship Fund (2016)

Mary A. Young Cancer Fund (2005)

Webb Moscovitch Family Fund (2005)

Margaret H. Williamson Fund (2013)

Young Voices Endowment Fund (2016)

Genevieve C. Weeks Fund (2002)

Winthrop B. Wilson Family Fund (2010)

Genevieve C. Weeks Fund for the United Way (2002)

Leonarda S. Winiarski Fund (2005)

Hans C. and Anna Weimar Fund (1995)

Gertrude L. Wolf “Class of 1902” Fund (1987)

YWCA Rhode Island Supported by: YWCA of Northern Rhode Island Endowment Fund (1990) and YWCA Rhode Island Gini Duarte Memorial Scholarship Fund (2012)

Dawn, Gregg, and Leland Weingeroff Animal Fund (2005)

Ruth and W. Irving Wolf, Jr. Family Fund (2005)

Jeremy S. and Edith B. Weinstein Family Fund (2013)

Women Ending Hunger Fund (2006)

Robert and Vicki Weisman Family Fund (2012)

Women’s Fund of Rhode Island (2000)

Howard S. and Elaine S. Weiss Fund (1991)

Helen Wood Memorial Fund for Langworthy Public Library (2009)

Frederick & Rosamond von Steinwehr Fund (1998) Evelyn Pierce Vories Fund (1983) Irene Vose Fund (2006) Ralph C. and Joyce L. Vossler Fund (2013) W.H.S. Alumni Scholarship Fund (2014) Wadleigh Family Fund (2005) Waite-Menson Fund (2007) Wakefield Rotary Charitable Foundation Fund (2019) • Mattie A. Walcott Fund (1999) Elayne Walker-Cabral Medical Scholarship Endowment (2018) John and Mary Wall Fund for Grace Church (1990) John and Mary Wall Fund for Rhode Island Hospital (2010) John and Mary Wall Fund for the Rhode Island Historical Society (2010)

Herbert J. Wells Fund (1970) Harold B. Werner Fund (2008)

John and Mary Wall Fund for the United Way (1985)

Harold B. Werner Scholarship Fund (2009)

Robert W. Daly and Mary B. Wall Fund (2010)

Westerly Cancer Fund (2006)

Kevin B. Walsh Memorial Scholarship Fund (2005)

Westerly Education Endowment Fund (2001)

Lily Walsh Fund (2001)

Westerly Hospital Auxiliary Fund (1992)

M. Martha Walsh Fund (1997)

Westerly Lions Club Scholarship Fund (2005)

Alice Ward Fund (1991)

Westerly Senior Citizens Center Endowment Fund (2014)

Alice Ward Fund (1993)

Westminster Senior Center Fund (1994)

Julia P. Ward Fund (1966)

Westminster Unitarian Church Fund (1998)

Marjorie A. Ward Fund (2005)

Wexler Family Fund in Memory of Edmund, William, Rose, & Benjamin Wexler (1980)

Harriet P. and Isabella M. Wardwell Fund (1942) (2) Simon W. Wardwell Fund (1978) Warren Heritage Endowment Fund (2017)

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Wood Memorial Scholarship Fund (2010) Mrs. Kenneth F. Wood Fund (1935) Woodcock Charitable Fund (2000) Michael J. Woods Fund (2009)

Eunice and Rubin Zeidman Fund (2015) Laura Mason Zeisler Fund (1997) The Zennovation Fund for Rhode Island (2018) Zennovation Project Fund (2019) Dorothy Davis Zimmering and the Zimmering Family Memorial Fund (1989) Coleman B. Zimmerman Memorial Fund (1993) Zitella Gallo Fund (2003) Kimberly and John Zwetchkenbaum Family Fund (2007)

Mabel M. Woodward Fund (1946) Mabel M. Woodward Fund (1963) Marilynne Graboys Wool Scholarship Fund (2000)

Supporting Organizations

Work Urquhart Charitable Fund (2012) World War II Memorial Fund (2018)

Subsidiary public charities benefitting from the Foundation’s community knowledge and professional investment and philanthropic services.

John J. and Eleanor Q. Wrenn Memorial Fund (2001)

Downcity Partnership, Inc. (2000)

Kit Wright Fund for Jamestown (1979)

Haffenreffer Family Fund (1987)

Miriam Weyker Thanatological Fund (1989)

Ora E. Wry Fund (2007)

Jewish Federation Foundation (2018)

Mark Wheeler Scholarship Fund (2017)

Alan Edgar Wurdeman Scholarship Fund (2014)

June Rockwell Levy Foundation (2011)

Erskine N. White, Jr. and Eileen L. White Fund (1995)

Harrison Yaghjian Fund (2000)

Rhode Island Charities Trust (1991) p103

Financials

Selected Financial Information

Generous Rhode Islanders have entrusted their philanthropy to the Rhode Island Foundation for more than a century.

To better our communities and our state requires more than good intentions. It requires good vision, strategy, and discipline. The Foundation deploys prudent, long-term financial strategies to have the most impact today while preserving and growing our endowment for the future.

Investments

The Foundation’s investments are managed by a committee of directors and community members with expertise in the field, along with the support of an investment consultant and the Foundation’s chief financial officer. The investment committee establishes the investment policy, selects investment managers, and monitors performance.

For long-term growth and to help minimize volatility, the funds are broadly diversified across asset classes, investment styles, and economies.

Equity 55% Domestic Equity 30% International Equity 20% Emerging Markets 5% Alternative Investments 40% Flexible Capital 15% Private Capital 15% Real Assets 10% Fixed Income 5% Our scale allows us access to some of the topperforming investment managers in the country, and we set high performance standards for those managers. Our long-term endowment returns p104

consistently rank us in the top quartile compared to our community foundation peers.

Investment performance net of fees:

1 year 5 years 10 years 20 years *As of 12/31/19

18.6% 7.4% 8.5% 6.5%

Spending Policy

Our spending policy ensures that our endowment continues to grow even as we continue to meet the needs of the day for the people Rhode Island. The spending policy of 5.5% and 5.75% (including our support fee) calculated over a sixteen-quarter trailing average, allows us to provide a predictable stream of grants to organizations that serve our community, while maintaining a prudent rate of endowment growth. The spending policy is reviewed annually by the Foundation’s board of directors.

Financial Statements

A summary of the financial statements is shown on the following page. The financial information contained in this report is unaudited and summarized. Audited financial statements, once issued, are available on our website at www.rifoundation.org.

Years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018. Full financial statements are available upon request.

Form 990s are available at www.rifoundation.org.

Consolidated Statements of Financial Position

Unaudited 2019

2018

$1,020,155

$1,512,696

1,086,437,038

933,228,714

18,709,392

17,175,965

Other receivables

5,647,851

6,552,451

Fixed assets, net

3,737,878

3,835,019

Notes receivable

5,982,362

6,118,694

1,121,534,676

968,423,539

1,270,156

1,315,688

10,329,961

8,553,320

6,629,342

6,374,351

98,662,185

87,705,463

Total Liabilities

116,891,644

103,948,822

NET ASSETS:

1,004,643,032 1,121,534,676

864,474,717

ASSETS: Cash Investments, at fair value Other assets

Total Assets LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS: Liabilities: Accounts payable and accrued expenses Grants payable Charitable trusts Agency endowment funds

Total Liabilities and Net Assets Consolidated Statements of Activities REVENUE: Contributions

Unaudited 2019

968,423,539 2018

43,393,217

108,276,571

157,059,064

(43,134,446)

1,920,675

1,444,443

202,372,956

66,586,568

GRANTS AND EXPENSES: Net grants appropriated

51,107,560

54,576,765

Administrative expenses

11,968,653

10,682,877

Total Grants and Expenses

63,076,213

65,259,642

871,572

(875,032)

Change in Net Assets

140,168,315

451,894

Net Assets, Beginning of Year

864,474,717

864,022,823

1,004,643,032

864,474,717

Net investment return Royalties and other income Total Revenue

Change in value of investments held in trust

Net Assets, End of Year

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