· Public charity
Provport Inc
Development of the port of providence
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRSTWORKS | $12,500 |
| COMMUNITY ANGELS | $5,000 |
| FOSTER FORWARD | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +111% since the first grant, against -29% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PRPROVIDENCE RESILIENCE PARTNERSHIP INC3× · 2022–2024 · $147k · revenue +111% · 38% of their budget
- PSPROVIDENCE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT6× · 2017–2023 · $142k
- FFIRSTWORKS3× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- TPTHE PROVIDENCE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -29%
- TPThe Providence Tourism Fundone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -99%
- GSGROW SMART RHODE ISLANDone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +18%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Promoting a more equitable, economically vibrant, and environmentally sustainable food system in 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…
The foundation seeks to identify, support and fund charitable, educational and scientific programs and projects that enhance and stimulate commerce, business, finance, and the professions in greater providence and other areas of the state…
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…
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An arts organization that inspires providence and its visitors by revitalizing the urban experience, fostering community engagement and creatively transforming the city by presenting waterfire.
To preserve the architectural heritage of providence and stimulate community revitalization through advocacy, lending and development in historic areas.
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.
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…
Public advocacy group in support of development land
Preservation of affordable housing in the state of rhode island
Provide an environment that encourages the exploration and development of artistic talents of youth in the multi-cultural neighborhoods of Providence, Rhode Island.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 9 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Provport Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Provport Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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