Rhode Island · Public charity
Hope & Main
To help local entrepreneurs jump-start early-stage food companies and food related businesses by providing low cost, low risk access to shared-use commercial kitchens and other industry-specific technical resources.
- $692k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2025
- Itemized, FY2025
- $570k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $41,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $393,196
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2025 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hope and Main Providence | $393,196 | 1 | 37% |
| Rhode Island Hispanic Chamber of Commerce | $45,270 | 1 | n/a |
| Social Enterprise Greenhouse | $41,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rhode Island Black Business Association | $40,833 | 1 | n/a |
| Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers | $24,995 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Southeast Asians | $24,902 | 1 | 1% |
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation
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About Hope & Main
- How much does Hope & Main give?
- Hope & Main reported 6 itemized grants totaling $570,196, out of $692,274 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.
- What does Hope & Main fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2025 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (96%), Education (4%).
- Who are Hope & Main's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2025 to FY2025: Hope and Main Providence ($393k), Rhode Island Hispanic Chamber of Commerce ($45k), Social Enterprise Greenhouse ($41k).
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hope & Main?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation, United Way of Rhode Island Inc, The Rhode Island Community Foundation.
- Where is Hope & Main based?
- Hope & Main is based in RI.
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