Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust

• The Trust gives special attention to organisations whose work focuses on the City of Newport and Aquidneck Island, so a group working elsewhere should weigh that before approaching it.
• Its stated emphasis is historic preservation and open-space conservation, so a group should check that its specific project fits those themes.
• Most of its grants are modest: about 8 in 10 of its 108 grants to organisations fall between $15,000 and $250,000, and half were $50,000 or less, so a request in that region is a sensible starting point, though that band is typical rather than a ceiling, since its largest grant was $825,000.
• Its latest filing shows that 60% of its grant dollars went to organisations it had also funded in earlier filings, so a first-time applicant should expect strong competition from existing grantees and should make a clear case for a specific project.
• Proposals go as six copies of a formal proposal to the Trust office by the end of February for the May meeting, or by 31 July for the October meeting, so a group should plan its timing around those dates.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Newport Hospital Foundation · Establish an adolescent behavioral health inpatient unit at newport hospital
  $500,0002024 tax year
• Salve Regina University · Ochre court terrace restoration plan, michael semenza scholarship fund
  $400,0002024 tax year
• Girl Scouts of Southeastern New England · Revitalization of camp rocky farm
  $250,0002024 tax year
• Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island · New aquidneck island 9th grade ocean access program
  $250,0002024 tax year
• Newport County Community Mental Health Center · Building hope, rebuilding lives mission expansion campaign in support of a new community access center
  $250,0002024 tax year
• SRBA Historic Building and Environmental Preservation Foundation · Further funding to continue work, already well under way addressing structural issues related to the integrity of the brick-clad exterior walls and an outdated drainage system
  $250,0002024 tax year
• Boys Club and Girls Clubs of Newport County · Capital campaign - a challenge grant
  $250,0002024 tax year
• Saint John the Evangelist · Stained-glass window over the high altar restoration
  $160,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.