How much does Building Futures give?

Building Futures reported 9 grants totaling $354,457 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Building Futures fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (67%), Education (10%), Health (9%).

Who are Building Futures's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Rhode Island Manufacturing Institute Db ($382k), Rhode Island Nursery Landscape Association Inc ($276k), Care New England Health System ($252k).

Does Building Futures fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Building Futures?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation.

Where is Building Futures based?

Building Futures is based in RI.

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Building Futures

BUILDING FUTURES' mission is achieved through pre-apprenticeship training and social service supports for individuals experiencing poverty who seek careers in the building trades through registered apprenticeship; and strategies to increase employer use of apprentices on construction projects; as well as technical assistance to…

$354k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 9
Grants FY2025: 2
Organizations funded FY2024: 100%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $36,360
Largest grant, FY2025: $83,792
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 12; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $4.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Building Futures funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EmploymentEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	9	$350k	33%
FY2024	2	$85k	100%
FY2023	2	$98k	50%
FY2022	7	$213k	14%
FY2021	12	$571k	50%
FY2020	9	$565k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Employment$1.3MEducation$186kHealth$168kHuman Services$90kEnvironment$86kScience & Tech$50kHousing & Shelter$39kCrime & Legal$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Rhode Island Manufacturing Institute Db	$382,432	3	24%
Rhode Island Nursery Landscape Association Inc	$275,514	3	14%
Care New England Health System	$252,156	3	0%
Finishing Trades Institute of Southern New England Inc	$182,735	4	4%
Iron Workers Local Union No 37	$86,340	3	2%
Rhode Island Association for the Education of Young Children	$83,792	1	1%
Ubc & Ja Local 330	$65,976	2	9%
Rhode Island Institute for Labor Studies and Research	$57,963	1	4%
University of Rhode Island	$57,026	2	n/a
Dimeo Construction Company	$50,000	2	n/a

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All grantees of Building Futures by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Rhode Island Manufacturing Institute Db	$382,432	3	24%
Rhode Island Nursery Landscape Association Inc	$275,514	3	14%
Care New England Health System	$252,156	3	0%
Finishing Trades Institute of Southern New England Inc	$182,735	4	4%
Iron Workers Local Union No 37	$86,340	3	2%
Rhode Island Association for the Education of Young Children	$83,792	1	1%
Ubc & Ja Local 330	$65,976	2	9%
Rhode Island Institute for Labor Studies and Research	$57,963	1	4%
University of Rhode Island	$57,026	2	n/a
Dimeo Construction Company	$50,000	2	n/a
Carousel Industries Inc	$47,595	1	n/a
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local No 99-JATC Trust	$46,855	2	3%
Parent Support Network of Rhode Island	$46,684	2	2%
Rhode Island Parent Information Network Inc	$42,978	2	1%
The New England Laborers Apprenticeship Advancement Fund	$40,882	2	14%
North Atlantic States Carpenters Training Fund	$36,360	1	0%
Cvs Pharmacy Inc	$35,892	1	n/a
Cvs Pharmacy Inc	$29,792	1	n/a
University of Rhode Island	$29,076	1	n/a
Rhode Island Marine Trade Association	$16,474	2	1%
Plumbers & Pipefitters Local No 51 Joint Apprenticeship Comm Trust Fund	$7,808	1	0%
Vantage Point Inc	$7,448	1	n/a

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Building Futures supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Building Futures

How much does Building Futures give?: Building Futures reported 9 grants totaling $354,457 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Building Futures fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (67%), Education (10%), Health (9%).
Who are Building Futures's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Rhode Island Manufacturing Institute Db ($382k), Rhode Island Nursery Landscape Association Inc ($276k), Care New England Health System ($252k).
Does Building Futures fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Building Futures?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation.
Where is Building Futures based?: Building Futures is based in RI.