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Providence College

See schedule oPROVIDENCE COLLEGE is a catholic, dominican, liberal arts institution of higher education and a community committed to academic excellence.

$102M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Itemized grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
60%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$97k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$1.1B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Providence College funded were first-time grantees, receiving 74% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$97k75%
FY20235$67k60%
FY20227$173k29%
FY20212$16k0%
FY20205$50k80%
FY20194$34k100%
FY20186$66k83%
FY20175$134kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$200kHuman Services$111kYouth Development$76kEducation$66kHealth$40kReligion$36kRecreation & Sports$28kHousing & Shelter$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Catholic Foundation of Rhode Island$200,0002n/a
A Wish Come True Inc$46,00052%
Foster Forward$30,00021%
Special Olympics Rhode Island Inc$28,10031%
Smith Hill Community Development Corporation$25,00023%
Young Voices$24,33023%
Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation$20,00011%
Rhode Island Kids Count Inc$20,00011%
Inspiring Minds$18,00023%
The Capital Good Fund$18,00020%
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All grantees of Providence College by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Catholic Foundation of Rhode Island$200,0002n/a
A Wish Come True Inc$46,00052%
Foster Forward$30,00021%
Special Olympics Rhode Island Inc$28,10031%
Smith Hill Community Development Corporation$25,00023%
Young Voices$24,33023%
Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation$20,00011%
Rhode Island Kids Count Inc$20,00011%
Inspiring Minds$18,00023%
The Capital Good Fund$18,00020%
Youth Pride Inc$15,50023%
St Anne's Shrine Preservation Society Inc$15,00015%
Community Libraries of Providence$15,0001n/a
Operation Stand Down Rhode Island$15,00010%
West End Community Center Inc$15,00011%
Catholic Relief Services$12,5441n/a
Sophia Academy$12,50010%
St Pius V School$10,5001n/a
Onward We Learn$10,00010%
Man Up Inc$10,00014%
Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc$10,00010%
Holy Family High School Inc$10,0001n/a
The Manton Avenue Project$10,00014%
Chicago Blackhawks Foundation$10,00010%
Semper Veritas LLC$10,0001n/a
Kate Foundation for Rett Syndrome Research Inc$10,00016%
Firstworks$6,00010%
Garden of Dreams Foundation$6,00010%
Sojourner House Inc$5,10010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Providence College supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetA Wish Come True Inc: $46,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetFoster Forward: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSpecial Olympics Rhode Island Inc: $28,100 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSmith Hill Community Development Corporation: $25,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetYoung Voices: $24,330 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetGloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRhode Island Kids Count Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetInspiring Minds: $18,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetThe Capital Good Fund: $18,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYouth Pride Inc: $15,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSt Anne's Shrine Preservation Society Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetOperation Stand Down Rhode Island: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWest End Community Center Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSophia Academy: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOnward We Learn: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMan Up Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetEaster Seals Massachusetts Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Manton Avenue Project: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetChicago Blackhawks Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKate Foundation for Rett Syndrome Research Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetFirstworks: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGarden of Dreams Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSojourner House Inc: $5,100 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

United Way of Rhode Island IncRI46.2× affinity20 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 · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · The Beacon Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353

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.

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About Providence College

How much does Providence College give?
Providence College reported 8 itemized grants totaling $97,400, out of $102,389,369 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Providence College fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (31%), Human Services (17%), Youth Development (12%).
Who are Providence College's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Catholic Foundation of Rhode Island ($200k), A Wish Come True Inc ($46k), Foster Forward ($30k).
Does Providence College fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Providence College?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Rhode Island Inc, The Rhode Island Community Foundation, Citizens Charitable Foundation.
Where is Providence College based?
Providence College is based in RI.

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 29 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $110M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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