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Partnership for Rhode Island

The corporation will bring together chief executive officers from ri leading businesses and institutions to bring about civic betterments, tackle system issues and achieve lasting improvement in the state's economy in collaboration with public officials and business civic leaders

$149k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$910kEducation$438kHealth$217kScience & Tech$200kCommunity Improvement$150kCivil Rights$100kHousing & Shelter$100kEmployment$61kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $142,294, the rows itemized in this filing. The $148,954 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,660 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$27,294
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOMES FOR RI INC$100,000
RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$27,294
BROWN UNIVERSITY$15,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $100k → 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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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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2
Rhode Islanders for Higher Education

To advocate on behalf of higher education issues and institutions.

Education
3
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
4
Rhode Island Bankers Association Inc

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…

Public Benefit
5
Rhode Island Quality Institute

To represent every constituency of healthcare leadership, as well as health insurance, consumer and public interest. to work collaboratively, come up with innovative solutions, champion changes throughout our organizations, and dedicate…

Health
6
Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council

Advancement of fiscally responsible government, competitive tax policies, and economic opportunities for all in rhode island by providing objective and nonpartisan research and analysis.

Public Benefit
7
Ri Hospitality Association

To build and operate an association totally & completely devoted to the interests of the hospitality and tourism industries.

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8
Rihub

Rihub's mission is all about driving economic transformation by helping entrepreneurs and startups more effectively focus and apply their ingenuity and innovation to reach their goals.

Community Improvement
9
Partnership for Rhode Island

The corporation will bring together chief executive officers from ri leading businesses and institutions to bring about civic betterments, tackle system issues and achieve lasting improvement in the state's economy in collaboration with…

Human Services
10
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
11
Rhode Island Public Radio

To provide quality journalism and compelling storytelling that informs, educates, and inspirescommunity.

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12
Rhode Island Business Development Institute Inc

Ribdi is dedicated to providing education and access to opportunities to individuals throughout their academic and career journeys. ribdi works towards developing programs that empower individuals to advance in the next level of their…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rhode Island Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Rhode Island Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,514,294 · PhilanthropyTHE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Science & TechUNIVERSITY…RHODE ISLAND BLACK BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · Community ImprovementRHODE ISLAND HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $50,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · Community ImprovementRHODE ISLAND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterNONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $100,000 · Human ServicesSKILLS FOR RHODE ISLAND'S FUTURE: $60,695 · EmploymentCHIEFS FOR CHANGE: $36,000 · EducationRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$1,514,294Science & Tech$200,000Community Improvement$165,000Housing & Shelter$100,000Human Services$100,000Employment$60,695Education$36,000Food & Nutrition$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,514,294 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND BLACK BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetSKILLS FOR RHODE ISLAND'S FUTURE: $60,695 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRHODE ISLAND HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $50,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetCHIEFS FOR CHANGE: $36,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Rhode Island Comm…Ralph R Papitto & Bar…United Way of Rhode I…
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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
    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.

    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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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