· Private foundation
Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k105 grants · $557k
- $10k–50k97 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k45 grants · $4.0M
- $250k+23 grants · $18M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUSTICE ASSISTANCE | $2,236,242 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $1,751,000 |
| DEVACCELERATOR INC | $1,550,000 |
| BUILDING FUTURES RHODE ISLAND | $1,500,000 |
| RI HOSPITAL FOUNDATION DEVELOPMENT | $1,000,000 |
| HASBRO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,000,000 |
| THE ELISHA PROJECT | $1,000,000 |
| THE FINANCIAL LITERACY INITIATIVE | $944,078 |
| RI PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC S | $935,000 |
| LEADERSHIP RHODE ISLAND | $702,500 |
| OFFICE OF THE POSTSECONDARY COMMISS | $534,978 |
| RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $525,000 |
| HOPE & MAIN | $513,062 |
| CENTRAL FALLS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| LIFESPAN | $500,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $7.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
178 repeat relationships: 149 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 116 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JAJUSTICE ASSISTANCE CORP4× · 2021–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +524% · 93% of their budget
- LCLifespan Corporation4× · 2021–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +60%
Rhode Island Hospital Foundation3× · 2022–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +49%
Funded once
- TFTEACH FOR AMERICAone grant, 2021 · $750k
- OOOFFICE OF THE POSTSECONDARY COMMISSIONERone grant, 2023 · $512k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $203k
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.
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…
Trinity academy for the performing arts utilizes an interdisciplinary arts-integrated program to prepare our artist-scholars for collegiate and professional success.
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 mission of pvd prep is to prepare a diverse group of providence middle school students for college preparatory high schools.
Advancement of fiscally responsible government, competitive tax policies, and economic opportunities for all in rhode island by providing objective and nonpartisan research and analysis.
To ensure that every rhode island child can go to a great public school.
Through civic engagement, policy advancement and artivism, The Womxn Project takes action to secure reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ rights and government transparency in Rhode Island.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
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…
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
220 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. 220 of the 432 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds JUSTICE ASSISTANCE CORP ↗
- Who funds Lifespan Corporation ↗
- Who funds ELISHA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP RHODE ISLAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOPE & MAIN ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL FALLS CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND BLACK HERITAGE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Mount Hope Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Higher Ground International ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFIRE PROVIDENCE ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds GREATER PROVIDENCE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PROMISE ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ RHODE ISLAND ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- Seiu Education and Support Fund: 6% of income from government
- Coaching for Change Inc: 5% of income from government
- Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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