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Friends of Rhode Island Ave NE

Revitalizing Rhode Island Ave NE between 3rd Street NE and Eastern Avenue.

$109k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Community Improvement$233kEnvironment$8kFood & Nutrition$5k
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $101,923, the rows itemized in this filing. The $109,448 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,525 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$345k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Studio Chique A Full Service Salon$13,423
Vernon Martins Salon$10,000
Ididos Social House Inc$9,000
Action Als Tire Company$8,500
Jackson and Tull Chartered Engineer$7,500
Sai Liquors$7,500
BAC 10 LLC dba Ritas Water Ice$6,000
Jones Electric$5,000
Studio Elan Salon & SpaCleashay Ch$5,000
Jaliyaa Coffee LLC$5,000
Provost$5,000
The Spice Suite$5,000
Small Planes Coffee$5,000
KBCDC Inc$5,000
Fish King$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Aurora Market: $5k → 14%Ididos Social House Inc: $9k → 8%GP Auto Services: $17k → 11%Adams Morgan Partnership Inc: $8k → 14%New Beginnings Unisex Hair Salon: $8k → 11%The Spice Suite: $5k → 14%Angelique Iconiq LLC: $5k → 14%Studio Chique A Full Service Salon: $18k → 14%Studio Chique A Full Service Salon: $13k → 14%Vernon Martins Salon: $10k → 14%Global Print Master: $10k → 14%Syds Liquor Store: $10k → 14%Deli City Restaurant: $10k → 14%Action Als Tire Company: $9k → 14%Sai Liquors: $8k → 14%Jackson and Tull Chartered Engineer: $8k → 14%Studio Elan Salon: $8k → 14%BAC 10 LLC dba Ritas Water Ice: $6k → 14%Provost: $5k → 14%Bourn To Cut: $5k → 14%Edens Kitchen: $5k → 14%New Color Sign: $5k → 14%Studio Elan Salon & SpaCleashay Ch: $5k → 14%Provost: $5k → 14%Rhode Island Pizza LLC: $5k → 14%Tewo Inc: $5k → 14%Emmas Torch: $5k → 14%Felicia & Family Food Inc: $5k → 14%Jonathon Wye LLC: $5k → 14%Edens Kitchen: $5k → 14%Riane Pizza Inc: $5k → 14%Jones Electric: $5k → 14%DC Brau Brewing LLC: $5k → 14%Dudley Enterprises LLC: $5k → 14%Bandura Design LLC: $5k → 14%KBCDC Inc: $5k → 14%Caprice House of Waaves LLC: $5k → 14%Abaye Inc dba 7 Days Market: $5k → 14%TwistitSista Natural Hair Studio: $11k → 14%Panda Gourmet: $10k → 14%Sylvia & David Industries Inc: $6k → 14%Sabby LLC - Huacatay Restaurant: $6k → 14%Metrobar: $6k → 14%Edgewood Liquors: $6k → 14%Taste Gourmet LLC: $5k → 14%Maria R Yee DDS PLLC: $5k → 14%Jerk at Nite: $5k → 14%Small Planes Coffee: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field
04the grantee network

1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
1/1
Grantees still filing
1/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Studio Chique A Full Service Salon: $18,423 · OtherStudio Chique A Full Service SalonGP Auto Services: $16,500 · OtherVERNON MARTINS SALON: $15,000 · OtherSTUDIO CHIQUE A FULL SERVICE SALON LLC: $13,423 · Other+45 more: $276,500 · Other+45 moreADAMS MORGAN PARTNERSHIP INC: $8,000 · Community Improvement
Other$339,846Community Improvement$8,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetADAMS MORGAN PARTNERSHIP INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds ADAMS MORGAN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Friends of Rhode Island Ave NE funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Friends of Rhode Island Ave NE. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Friends of Rhode Island Ave NE?

    Find your warmest path to Friends of Rhode Island Ave NE 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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