Does Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, United Way of Rhode Island Inc, The Champlin Foundation.

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Rhode Island · Private foundation

Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$24M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 270
Grants FY2024: 243
Organizations funded FY2023: 60%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $2,236,242
Organizations funded a year: 42 to 243; FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 5
Total assets, FY2024: $6.8M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.9M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	265	$22M	44%
FY2023	243	$22M	60%
FY2022	146	$21M	85%
FY2021	42	$12M	n/a

94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Community Improvement$12MHealth$11MArts & Culture$10MEducation$8.7MCrime & Legal$6.4MHuman Services$6.3MYouth Development$4.8MPhilanthropy$4.3MOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Justice Assistance Corp	$5,664,705	4	93%
Lifespan Corporation	$4,502,500	4	1%
Elisha Project	$3,285,000	4	19%
Rhode Island Hospital Foundation	$2,648,000	3	11%
Center for Southeast Asians	$2,545,691	4	39%
Leadership Rhode Island Educational Foundation	$2,147,810	4	38%
Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra & Music School	$2,140,500	3	12%
Hope & Main	$1,779,284	3	50%
Devaccelerator Inc	$1,700,000	2	n/a
Central Falls Children Foundation	$1,666,640	4	68%

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All grantees of Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Justice Assistance Corp	$5,664,705	4	93%
Lifespan Corporation	$4,502,500	4	1%
Elisha Project	$3,285,000	4	19%
Rhode Island Hospital Foundation	$2,648,000	3	11%
Center for Southeast Asians	$2,545,691	4	39%
Leadership Rhode Island Educational Foundation	$2,147,810	4	38%
Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra & Music School	$2,140,500	3	12%
Hope & Main	$1,779,284	3	50%
Devaccelerator Inc	$1,700,000	2	n/a
Central Falls Children Foundation	$1,666,640	4	68%
Rhode Island Black Heritage Society	$1,446,000	3	83%
Mount Hope Community Center Inc	$1,344,780	4	65%
Higher Ground International	$1,221,500	3	74%
Amos House	$950,000	3	3%
Community Musicworks	$800,000	3	4%
Sojourner House Inc	$753,250	4	6%
Waterfire Providence	$740,000	4	10%
Crossroads Rhode Island	$650,000	3	1%
The Legacy Collective Ri	$648,000	2	n/a
Greater Providence Young Mens Christian Association	$623,000	4	1%
Laotian Association of Rhode Island	$600,000	2	n/a
Providence Promise	$540,500	3	51%
Reach Out and Read Rhode Island	$500,000	3	55%
The Equity Institute	$445,000	3	15%
Button Hole	$375,000	2	16%
Providence Sports & Leadership	$350,000	3	62%
Reentry Campus Program	$345,000	3	28%
Winners Circle XR Academy Inc	$325,640	2	75%
Institute for Nonprofit Practice Inc	$325,000	2	7%
Rhode Island Black Business Association	$302,500	3	21%
Refugee Development Center	$290,000	2	14%
The Avenue Concept Inc	$285,000	2	15%
Esperanza Hope	$275,000	4	79%
Nonviolence Institute	$250,000	2	9%
Rhode Island Hispanic Chamber of Commerce	$245,172	4	16%
Women Refugee Care	$235,000	3	21%
Southside Community Land Trust	$230,000	3	6%
Federal Hill House Association Inc	$220,000	3	2%
John Hope Settlement House	$215,000	3	10%
Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc	$200,837	3	2%
Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island Inc	$200,000	2	1%
Rhode Island Bar Foundation	$200,000	3	9%
Beautiful Day	$200,000	3	11%
Social Enterprise Greenhouse	$200,000	1	8%
Community Libraries of Providence	$200,000	2	2%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Providence	$200,000	2	2%
City Year Inc	$200,000	2	0%
Haus of Codec	$190,000	3	43%
New Bridges for Haitian Success Inc	$189,000	3	21%
Ri Women in the Trades	$177,500	2	84%
Waterspill Junction Inc	$175,000	2	n/a
Providence Public Library	$175,000	2	2%
Ballet Ri	$175,000	3	5%
Skills for Rhode Island's Future	$170,000	2	1%
Olneyville Housing Corporation	$160,000	3	2%
College Visions	$151,000	3	6%
Bryant University	$150,000	1	0%
New England Institute of Technology	$150,000	2	0%
Central Falls Affordable Housing Corporation	$150,000	1	14%
McAuley Corporation	$150,000	1	10%
Rise Women Leadership Conference	$150,000	1	n/a
New Urban Arts	$145,000	3	4%
David Duke Jr Foundation	$140,000	1	98%
Melior Inc	$140,000	2	53%
Family Service of Rhode Island Inc	$140,000	2	0%
A Leadership Journey	$135,000	3	54%
Juneteenth RI	$134,400	3	30%
Camp Errol	$125,000	1	n/a
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas Northeast Community	$125,000	1	n/a
The Economic Progress Institute	$115,000	3	5%
Bliss Gives	$115,000	2	n/a
Foster Forward	$110,000	2	3%
The Wilbury Theatre Group	$110,000	2	12%
Edesia Inc	$107,500	2	0%
Opendoors	$105,000	2	6%
Project Undercover Inc	$105,000	3	12%
Rhode Island College Alumni Association	$105,000	1	n/a
Brown Neurology Inc	$100,000	1	0%
Providence Art Club	$100,000	1	5%
Trinity Repertory Company	$95,000	2	1%
Rhody Tech Support Inc	$92,000	1	n/a
As 220	$90,000	3	2%
Throughline Learning	$85,000	3	2%
Onward We Learn	$85,000	3	1%
Fund for Ucap	$77,500	2	25%
Project Goal Inc	$76,500	2	22%
Woonasquatucket Valley Community Build Inc	$75,000	1	6%
Progreso Latino	$75,000	3	1%
Rhode Island Bar Association	$75,000	3	1%
Trustees of Boston University	$75,000	2	0%
Feed RI	$75,000	2	2%
Partnership for Providence Parks	$75,000	2	12%
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers	$72,500	3	7%
Rhode Island Black Storytellers	$72,000	3	17%
Riverzedge Arts Project	$70,000	3	5%
Women's Fund of Rhode Island	$67,500	3	8%
Groundwork Rhode Island	$65,000	2	4%
Designxri	$65,000	2	5%
Providence Speaking Society	$65,000	2	n/a
Inspiring Minds	$65,000	3	3%
Providence School Department	$62,500	1	n/a
Boys & Girls Club of East Providence Inc	$62,500	3	1%
Urban Perinatal Education Center	$60,000	1	11%
Providence After School Alliance	$57,500	2	2%
Woonasquatucket River Watershed	$55,000	3	1%
Roots 2empower	$52,500	3	11%
San Miguel Education Center	$50,000	1	1%
Rhode Island Legal Services Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Rihub	$50,000	1	5%
The Gordon School	$50,000	1	0%
Pawtucket Central Falls Development Corp	$50,000	1	2%
Providence Children's Museum	$50,000	2	1%
Moms on Missions	$45,000	2	n/a
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship	$45,000	3	0%
Community Health Innovations of Ri	$45,000	2	45%
Quisqueya in Action Inc	$45,000	2	n/a
Firstworks	$45,000	3	1%
Rhode Island Black Film Festival	$42,500	4	52%
The Providence Singers Inc	$42,150	1	23%
Remi Tv	$40,000	2	n/a
Families In Action Inc	$40,000	1	n/a
Martin Luther King Community Center Incorporated	$35,000	3	0%
Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Initiative - Jdpi	$35,000	2	n/a
The Rhode Island Public Health Foundation	$35,000	1	1%
Meals on Wheels of Ri Inc	$35,000	2	0%
Seiu Education and Support Fund	$35,000	2	0%
Oasis International	$35,000	2	3%
Youthbuild Preparatory Academy	$35,000	1	n/a
Sincere Multiservice Inc	$32,500	2	n/a
Mixed Magic Theatre & Cultural Events	$32,500	2	22%
Sowams Heritage Area Project Inc	$32,500	2	n/a
Squashbusters Inc	$30,000	2	0%
RI Slave History Medallions	$30,000	1	23%
Manissean Tribal Council	$30,000	2	n/a
PVD World Music Institute	$30,000	2	7%
Center for Advancing Community	$30,000	1	3%
Empowerment Factory	$30,000	2	8%
Phoenix Odyssey Inc	$30,000	1	n/a
Lights & Sirens International	$30,000	2	n/a
Local Initiatives Support Corporation	$30,000	3	0%
LitArts RI	$30,000	2	3%
Providence College	$30,000	2	0%
The Genesis Center	$30,000	2	0%
Youth Pride Inc	$29,000	3	3%
The Learning Commnunity Charter School Inc	$27,500	2	0%
Rhode Island Sports Union	$27,500	2	12%
Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre	$27,500	3	0%
Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education	$25,000	2	3%
Downtown Providence Parks Network	$25,000	1	5%
The Center for Dynamic Learning Inc	$25,000	2	3%
Comprehensive Community Action Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Quinnipiac University	$25,000	1	0%
Time to Advocate	$25,000	2	16%
Sprout and S T E M Inc	$25,000	2	n/a
Steam Box	$25,000	1	n/a
Women & Infants Hospital of Ri	$25,000	1	0%
Sankofa Community Connection	$25,000	1	n/a
Spectrum Theatre Ensemble	$25,000	1	n/a
Fabnewport Inc	$25,000	3	1%
Sabaterlab Foundation	$25,000	2	n/a
Youth in Action Inc	$25,000	2	1%
Trinity Restoration Inc	$25,000	1	3%
Rhode Island Center for the Book	$25,000	3	6%
Revolve Dance Project Inc	$22,500	1	n/a
Wattsnatural Tutoring	$22,500	2	16%
Mini Entrepreneurs of Rhode Island	$20,000	2	4%
My Homecourt Inc	$20,000	2	10%
Roger Williams Day Care Centerinc	$20,000	1	3%
Rhode Island Kids Count Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Business Innovation Factory	$20,000	1	7%
University of Rhode Island Foundation & Alumni Engagement	$20,000	1	0%
Providence Building Sanitary and Educational Association	$20,000	1	0%
Conexion Latina Newport	$20,000	2	2%
The Jonnycake Center Inc	$20,000	1	1%
The Providence Foundation	$20,000	1	2%
Children's Friend and Service	$20,000	1	0%
Community College of Ri Foundation	$20,000	1	1%
Childrens Workshop Foundation	$20,000	1	0%
Thrive Behavioral Health Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Books Are Wings	$20,000	2	4%
Downcity Design	$20,000	2	1%
Man Up Inc	$20,000	1	6%
Always Learning Rhode Island	$20,000	1	20%
Hope Scholars Initiative Inc	$20,000	2	n/a
The Groden Center Inc	$20,000	1	0%
The Art Connection in Rhode Island	$19,500	3	12%
The Highlander Charter School	$15,000	1	0%
Providence Student Union	$15,000	2	2%
Latino Public Radio	$15,000	1	8%
Young Voices	$15,000	1	2%
Center for Indigenous Peoples Rights	$15,000	1	n/a
Blackstone River Watershed Council Inc	$15,000	2	6%
Stop the Wait Rhode Island Fund	$15,000	1	n/a
Rhode Island Latino Arts Inc	$15,000	1	9%
Rosa Parks Resource Center	$15,000	1	n/a
Cowden Street Collaborative Inc	$15,000	2	0%
Coaching for Change Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Rhode Island Elite	$10,000	1	n/a
Rhode Island College Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
National Multicultural Students Alliance	$10,000	1	n/a
Boys Town New England Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Rhode Island Medical Society	$10,000	1	2%
Nora's Haven	$10,000	1	4%
Ramp Real Access Motivates Progress	$10,000	1	12%
Newportfall River Star Kids Scholarship Program	$10,000	1	1%
Newport Art Museum and Art Association	$10,000	1	1%
Rhode Island Write on Sports Inc	$10,000	1	65%
Innovation Studio Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Tides Family Services Inc	$10,000	1	0%
International Tennis Hall of Fame Incorporated	$10,000	1	0%
Cape Verdean Museum Exhibit	$10,000	1	4%
Bristol Middle Passage Port Marker Project Inc	$10,000	2	4%
The Right Course	$10,000	1	n/a
Trade Pop-Up	$10,000	1	4%
Woonsocket School Department	$10,000	1	n/a
Gbb Cultural Connection	$10,000	1	n/a
Central Falls Alumni Association	$10,000	1	n/a
Providence Country Day School	$10,000	1	0%
Garden Time Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Worship Arts Restoration	$10,000	1	n/a
Resist Inc	$10,000	1	0%
African Policy Ressearch Institute	$10,000	1	n/a
Adoption Rhode Island	$10,000	1	0%
Amenity Aid	$10,000	1	2%
The Wolf School Inc	$8,100	1	0%
The Manton Avenue Project	$7,500	1	4%
Glovesupgunsdown Ri	$7,500	1	n/a
The Impowerment Group	$7,500	1	n/a
Shri Service Corps	$7,500	1	4%
International Teachers Project Inc	$7,500	1	73%
The Latino Policy Institute	$7,500	1	2%
Sophia Academy	$7,500	2	0%
Young Men's Christian Association of Pawtucket Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Rhode Island Welcome Back Center	$7,500	1	n/a
Creative Reuse Center of RI	$7,500	1	5%
Queer Archive Work	$7,500	1	n/a
Rocky Hill Country Day School	$7,500	1	0%
St Mary Academy-Bay View-East Providence	$6,500	1	n/a
Mindfit	$5,000	1	n/a
Woonsocket Neighborhood Development Corporation	$5,000	1	0%
Mental Health Association of Rhode Island	$5,000	1	2%
Entrepreneurship for All Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Brain Waves Rhode Island	$5,000	1	n/a
Junior Achievement of Rhode Island Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Blackstone Valley Community Action Program Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Girl Scouts of Southeastern New England	$5,000	1	0%
Centro de Innovacion Mujer Latina	$5,000	1	n/a
Back to School Celebration of RI	$5,000	1	6%
Ocean State Media Group	$5,000	1	0%
Providence Drum Troupe	$5,000	1	7%
Puerto Rican Institute for the Arts and Advocacy Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Cranston School Department	$5,000	1	n/a
Diversity & Inclusion Professionals	$5,000	1	14%
Artisan Joy	$5,000	1	n/a
Newport Historical Society	$5,000	1	0%
Shea Fashion	$5,000	1	n/a
Blackstone Valley Tourism Council Inc	$5,000	1	0%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$2,500	1	0%
Hope and Change for Haiti	$2,000	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 169 recipients with no EIN on record ($22M), not named here.

Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 24 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 200.

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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.

The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI220.7× affinity171 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Champlin Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Beacon Foundation · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island

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 Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation

How much does Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation give?: Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation reported 270 grants totaling $24,335,921 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 243 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (15%), Health (14%), Arts & Culture (13%).
Who are Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Justice Assistance Corp ($5.7M), Lifespan Corporation ($4.5M), Elisha Project ($3.3M).
Does Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, United Way of Rhode Island Inc, The Champlin Foundation.
Where is Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation based?: Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation is based in RI.