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Harborone Foundation Rhode Island

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$335k
Granted FY2023
35
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Youth Development$300kEducation$245kHealth$215kHousing & Shelter$181kArts & Culture$145kHuman Services$98kFood & Nutrition$88kCommunity Improvement$75kOther$0
02FY2023 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k24 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEETING STREET$60,000
UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE$50,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE$25,000
FESTIVAL BALLET PROVIDENCE$20,000
OLNEYVILLE HOUSING CORP$20,000
BUTTON HOLE$20,000
MENTOR RHODE ISLAND THE RI MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC$15,000
RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION$15,000
PAWTUCKET CENTRAL FALLS DEVELOPMENT$10,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF RI INC$10,000
PROVIDENCE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$10,000
CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND$7,500
AS220$7,500
CHILD & FAMILY$7,500
SOJOURNER HOUSE INC$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC: $1k → 7%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $5k → 16%GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $3k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $3k → 14%Project Sweet Peas: $250 → 7%Ocean State Center For Independent Living: $100 → 7%Izzy Foundation: $900 → 7%HOPEHEALTH HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE: $5k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $8k → 14%ADOPTION RHODE ISLAND: $5k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $5k → 14%ADOPTION RHODE ISLAND: $5k → 14%CHILDRENS FRIEND AND SERVICE: $3k → 14%ADOPTION RHODE ISLAND: $5k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $5k → 14%GENESIS CENTER: $3k → 14%WOMEN'S FUND OF RHODE ISLAND: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 40 repeat orgs$378k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +84% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2023, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
109

Total granted

$1.1M
$354k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%
+45%

Still filing today

95%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • Meeting Street
    5× · 2017–2023 · $183k · revenue +38%
  • UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT
    3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +96%
  • OH
    OLNEYVILLE HOUSING CORPORATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $95k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • YOUTHBUILD PREPARATORY ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +555%
  • UW
    United Way
    one grant, 2017 · $31k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $28k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Rhode Island Kids Count Inc

Rhode island kids count, inc. is a not-for-profit corporation. the organization is a children's policy and advocacy organization that provides information on child well-being, stimulates dialogue on children's issues, and promotes…

Youth Development
2
Ywca Rhode Island

The ywca rhode island provides cultural, educational and recreational programs specifically for women, girls and young children.

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3
Parent Support Network of Rhode Island

The parent support network of ri is a group of parents, family members, transition age youth, and adults with behavioral health lived experience who are committed to supporting and assisting peers and working with statewide and national…

Human Services
4
Hospital Association of Rhode Island

To be a proactive advocate for the hospitals in rhode island that is capable of working for and with the hospitals to positively influence public opinion, legislative outcomes and regulatory policy. the purpose of such advocacy is to…

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5
The Rhode Island Public Health Foundation

The organization's mission is to eliminate health disparities in rhode island and beyond. the organization develops innovative public health programs, conducts translational and policy research, provides clinical services, and trains…

Health
6
Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council Inc

Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council's mission is to promote changes wthin communities in Rhode Island that encourages, inspires and makes possible for individuals with disabilities to create, pursue and achieve lives that are…

Health
7
Rhode Island Parent Information Network Inc

We are peer professionals on a mission to help rhode islanders of all abilities, ages, and backgrounds get the support they need to thrive.

Human Services
8
Rhode Island Association for the Education of Young Children

Each and every child thrives and learns in a society dedicated to ensuring they reach their full potential.riaeyc promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy and research. we…

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9
The Alumni Association of the University of Rhode Island

The university of rhode island alumni association informs and engages current and future alumni as committed partners of the university, its missions and traditions.

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10
Preserve Rhode Island

Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…

Arts & Culture
11
Rhode Island League of Cities and Towns

To represent the interests of municipal officials and to provide them services which enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of city and town services through technical assistance, information sharing and training.

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12
Refocus Inc

Refocus is a human service agency that serves adults with differing physical and developmental needs. we are an organization of dedicated people offering opportunities for growth in a loving, trusting, and challenging environment. we value…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adoption Rhode Island and the most unlike its peers is Main Street Association of East Greenwich. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyArts and Youth DevelopmentProvidence Community Develo…Healthcare System OperationsCollege Preparatory SchoolsWorkforce Development and T…Healthcare & Social ServicesAffordable Housing ProvidersDiverse Social Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%1%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%18%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr19%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%4%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr17%10%20–35yr13%37%35–55yr19%37%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/110
the rest of the field
11%
468/4,338

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

104 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. 104 of the 155 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
47
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/104
Grantees still filing
88/104
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YEAR UP RHODE ISLAND — $35,000 · OtherYEAR UP RHODE ISLANDSOJOURNER HOUSE INC — $32,500 · OtherSOJOURNER HOUSE INCUnited Way — $30,961 · OtherUnited WayIndividual grant recipient — $27,500 · OtherCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF NEWPORT COUNTY — $27,500 · OtherWEST END INTRUDERS — $20,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE — $30,000 · OtherTHE CAPITAL GOOD FUND — $25,500 · OtherMount Hope Community Center Inc — $25,000 · OtherBUTTON HOLE — $23,000 · Other+111 more — $290,085 · Other+111 moreUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT — $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RHODE …YOUTHBUILD PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $50,000 · EducationYOUTHBUILD PREPARATO…COLLEGE VISIONS — $12,500 · EducationONWARD WE LEARN — $11,000 · Education+9 more — $41,525 · Education+9 moreMeeting Street — $182,500 · HealthMeeting StreetTHE PROVIDENCE CENTER INC — $12,700 · HealthTHE PROVIDENCE …+4 more — $9,000 · HealthBALLET RI — $60,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET RIAS 220 — $37,500 · Arts & CultureAS 220PROVIDENCE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $35,000 · Arts & CulturePROVIDENCE …FIRSTWORKS — $5,000 · Arts & CultureMount Hope Learning Center — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $500 · Arts & CultureOLNEYVILLE HOUSING CORPORATION — $95,000 · Housing & ShelterOLNEYVILL…WEST ELMWOOD NEIGHBORWORKS HOME OWNERSHIP CENTER INC — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterWEST ELMW…HOUSE OF HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $5,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $600 · Housing & ShelterRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — $60,000 · Food & NutritionFARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF RI INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionMENTOR RHODE ISLAND THE RI MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC — $78,000 · Employment+1 more — $400 · Employment
Other$567,046Education$265,025Health$204,200Arts & Culture$143,000Housing & Shelter$115,600Food & Nutrition$80,000Employment$78,400

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMeeting Street — $182,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOLNEYVILLE HOUSING CORPORATION — $95,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMENTOR RHODE ISLAND THE RI MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC — $78,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetBALLET RI — $60,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAS 220 — $37,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPROVIDENCE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOJOURNER HOUSE INC — $32,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF NEWPORT COUNTY — $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CAPITAL GOOD FUND — $25,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMount Hope Community Center Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBUTTON HOLE — $23,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND — $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEST ELMWOOD NEIGHBORWORKS HOME OWNERSHIP CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Northern Rhode Island — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPAWTUCKET CENTRAL FALLS DEVELOPMENT CORP — $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetADOPTION RHODE ISLAND — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PROVIDENCE CENTER INC — $12,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE VISIONS — $12,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WARWICK — $11,550 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $11,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetONWARD WE LEARN — $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF RI INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSMITH HILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetREAD TO SUCCEED INC — $8,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetINSPIRING MINDS — $7,625 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE LEARNING COMMNUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTBAY COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE PROMISE — $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE STATION FIRE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetELIZABETH BUFFUM CHACE CENTER — $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGirls on the Run Rhode Island — $6,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMOS HOUSE — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ RHODE ISLAND — $5,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBOOKS ARE WINGS — $5,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF RHODE ISLAND CASA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBORS INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PAWTUCKET — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRSTWORKS — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMount Hope Learning Center — $5,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHRI SERVICE CORPS — $5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetDARE DIRECT ACTION FOR RIGHTS AND EQUALITY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
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.

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way of Rhode I…The Rhode Island Comm…The Champlin Foundati…Centreville Savings B…Ralph R Papitto & Bar…Amica Companies Found…The Harborone Foundat…June Rockwell Levy Fo…The Nordson Corporati…Bristol County Saving…The Beacon FoundationWashington Trust Co C…
United Way of Rhode Island IncRI125.9× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · The Harborone Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Beacon Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn

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 Harborone Foundation Rhode Island 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Center for Women & Enterprise Inc — 27% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Harborone Foundation Rhode Island?

Find your warmest path to Harborone Foundation Rhode Island 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 155 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home