· Public charity
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…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $208k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION FOR EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN | $83,792 |
| FTISNE INC | $65,937 |
| INSTITUTE LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH | $57,963 |
| CARPENTERS LOCAL 330 | $46,298 |
| NORTH ATLANTIC STATES CARPENTERS TRAINING FUND | $36,360 |
| IRONWORKERS LOCAL 37 | $29,345 |
| IBEW LOCAL 99 JATC | $17,537 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND | $7,384 |
| NE LABORERS APP ADV | $5,365 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $178k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- RIRHODE ISLAND MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE DB3× · 2020–2022 · $382k · revenue +14%
- RIRHODE ISLAND NURSERY LANDSCAPE ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $276k · revenue +13%
- CNCARE NEW ENGLAND HEALTH SYSTEM3× · 2020–2022 · $252k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- CICAROUSEL INDUSTRIES INCone grant, 2020 · $48k
- CPCVS PHARMACY INCone grant, 2020 · $36k
- CPCVS PHARMACY INCone grant, 2021 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide a forum to facilitate a partnership between labor and management in areas of mutual concern for the betterment of the industry.
Membership organization representing approximately 8,700 union members for the purpose of collective bargaining.
Labor organization
To unite all workers for the purpose of collective bargaining throughout the trades and industries within its jurisdiction.
Ri chiefs of police gather to share information on new or proposed state laws and maintaining best methods for state's citizens' protection
The Fund provides education and training to apprentices and journeymen as provided by the collective bargaining agreement.
This is a multiemployer collectively bargained plan that provides training and education for apprentices and journeyman ironworkers.
All activities conducted by the association are to enable it to:a. establish a better understanding between the members and companies in the construction and related industries.b. foster reasonable and just regulations by governments c.…
Represents its members when dealing with the state of Delaware and other employment related matters.
Provide electrical skills and apprentice educational training for students in rochester, new york and the surrounding area.
The rhode island bankers association will serve as the sole rhode island based organization serving the banking industry and will advocate for its member institutions and participate alongside other new england banking industry…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rhode Island Institute for Labor Studies and Research and the most unlike its peers is Ubc & Ja Local 330. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE DB ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND NURSERY LANDSCAPE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARE NEW ENGLAND HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds FINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds IRON WORKERS LOCAL UNION NO 37 ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds UBC & JA LOCAL 330 ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local No 99-JATC Trust ↗
- Who funds PARENT SUPPORT NETWORK OF RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND PARENT INFORMATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW ENGLAND LABORERS APPRENTICESHIP ADVANCEMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds NORTH ATLANTIC STATES CARPENTERS TRAINING FUND ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND MARINE TRADE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Plumbers & Pipefitters Local No 51 Joint Apprenticeship Comm Trust Fund ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Building Futures funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Building Futures through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.