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Providence Student Union

Providence Student Union (PSU) builds student power to improve our education and well-being. We envision a true union for students" that increases young people's collective power and ensures our frustrations, demands, and dreams are heard. At PSU, young people grow as leaders, organizers, and advocates for justice in all forms, today and…

$18k
Granted FY2023
2
Itemized grants FY2023
2
Organizations funded FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$5k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$2,610
Largest grant, FY2023
$2,610
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$693k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Young Voices$2,61010%
Alliance of Rhode Island Southeast Asians for Education$2,53010%

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About Providence Student Union

How much does Providence Student Union give?
Providence Student Union reported 2 itemized grants totaling $5,140, out of $18,490 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing.
What does Providence Student Union fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2023, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (51%), Human Services (49%).
Who are Providence Student Union's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2023: Young Voices ($3k), Alliance of Rhode Island Southeast Asians for Education ($3k).
Where is Providence Student Union based?
Providence Student Union 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 2 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 2023, released 2023. 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 $17k 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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