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Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$24M
Granted FY2024still arriving
270
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$2.2M
Largest
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2024 · 270 grants

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
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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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.

area typical 10%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $250k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $75k → 16%PROJECT UNDERCOVERS INC: $45k → 7%PROJECT UNDERCOVERS INC: $30k → 7%PROJECT UNDERCOVERS INC: $30k → 7%FOSTER FORWARD: $80k → 14%FOSTER FORWARD: $30k → 14%THE ELISHA PROJECT: $1.0M → 14%THE ELISHA PROJECT: $1.0M → 14%THE ELISHA PROJECT: $750k → 14%THE ELISHA PROJECT: $535k → 14%NONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $200k → 14%NONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $50k → 14%PROGRESS LATINO: $50k → 14%PROGRESS LATINO: $23k → 14%ROGER WILLIAMS DAY CARE CENTER INC: $20k → 14%FEDERAL HILL HOUSE: $150k → 14%OPEN DOORS: $100k → 14%FEDERAL HILL HOUSE: $50k → 14%WOMEN'S FUND OF RHODE ISLAND: $40k → 14%ROOTS 2EMPOWER: $25k → 14%FEDERAL HILL HOUSING ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%ROOTS 2EMPOWER: $20k → 14%URBAN PERINATAL EDUCATION CENTER: $60k → 14%BEAUTIFUL DAY: $100k → 14%BEAUTIFUL DAY: $50k → 14%BEAUTIFUL DAY: $50k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $375k → 14%REENTRY CAMPUS PROGRAM: $250k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $175k → 14%RISE WOMENS LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE: $150k → 14%JOHN HOPE SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $100k → 14%JOHN HOPE SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $100k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $100k → 14%REENTRY CAMPUS PROGRAM: $75k → 14%WHAT CHEER WRITERS CLUB: $20k → 14%CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE: $20k → 14%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION: $25k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER PROVIDENCE: $255k → 14%REFUGEE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $240k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER PROVIDENCE: $165k → 14%WOMEN'S REFUGEE CARE: $150k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER PROVIDENCE: $103k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER PROVIDENCE: $100k → 14%THE REFUGEE DREAM CENTER: $50k → 14%WOMEN'S REFUGEE CARE: $50k → 14%WOMEN'S REFUGEE CARE: $35k → 14%TRINITY RESTORATION INC: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$66M · 178 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

178
134

Total granted

$66M
$5.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+12%

Still filing today

70%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • JA
    JUSTICE ASSISTANCE CORP
    4× · 2021–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +524% · 93% of their budget
  • LC
    Lifespan Corporation
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +60%
  • Rhode Island Hospital Foundation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • TF
    TEACH FOR AMERICA
    one grant, 2021 · $750k
  • OO
    OFFICE OF THE POSTSECONDARY COMMISSIONER
    one grant, 2023 · $512k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one 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.

04Its field

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.

1
Roger Williams University

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…

Education
2
Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts

Trinity academy for the performing arts utilizes an interdisciplinary arts-integrated program to prepare our artist-scholars for collegiate and professional success.

Education
3
Preserve 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…

Arts & Culture
4
Providence Preparatory Charter School

The mission of pvd prep is to prepare a diverse group of providence middle school students for college preparatory high schools.

Education
5
Rhode Island Bankers Association Foundation
Education
6
Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council

Advancement of fiscally responsible government, competitive tax policies, and economic opportunities for all in rhode island by providing objective and nonpartisan research and analysis.

Public Benefit
7
Jamaican Association of Rhode Island
Arts & Culture
8
Rhode Island Education Collective

To ensure that every rhode island child can go to a great public school.

Education
9
The Womxn Project

Through civic engagement, policy advancement and artivism, The Womxn Project takes action to secure reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ rights and government transparency in Rhode Island.

Civil Rights
10
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
11
Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council Inc

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…

Health
12
Providence CityArts for Youth Inc

Provide an environment that encourages the exploration and development of artistic talents of youth in the multi-cultural neighborhoods of Providence, Rhode Island.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Economic Progress Institute; the most unlike its peers is Trade Pop-Up. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
215/220
Grantees still filing
119/220
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUILDING FUTURES RHODE ISLAND: $4,875,000 · OtherBUILDING FUTURES RHODE ISLANDCENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS: $2,545,691 · OtherCENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANSTHE FINANCIAL LITERACY INITIATIVE: $2,000,332 · OtherDEVACCELERATOR INC: $1,700,000 · OtherLEADERSHIP RHODE ISLAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,147,810 · OtherLEADERSHIP RHODE ISLAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION+116 more: $26,632,966 · Other+116 moreLifespan Corporation: $4,502,500 · HealthLifespan Corp…Rhode Island Hospital Foundation: $2,648,000 · HealthRhode Island …CENTRAL FALLS CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $1,666,640 · HealthCENTRAL FALLS…+4 more: $320,000 · HealthELISHA PROJECT: $3,285,000 · Human ServicesELISHA PROJ…CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $650,000 · Human ServicesCROSSROADS …GREATER PROVIDENCE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $623,000 · Human ServicesGREATER PRO…REENTRY CAMPUS PROGRAM: $345,000 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC: $325,000 · Human ServicesRefugee Development Center: $290,000 · Human Services+16 more: $2,100,000 · Human Services+16 moreJUSTICE ASSISTANCE CORP: $5,664,705 · Crime & LegalRHODE ISLAND BAR FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $50,000 · Crime & LegalBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,939,400 · Community ImprovementHOPE & MAIN: $1,779,284 · Community ImprovementMount Hope Community Center Inc: $1,344,780 · Community ImprovementRHODE ISLAND BLACK BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $302,500 · Community ImprovementRHODE ISLAND HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $245,172 · Community Improvement+4 more: $220,000 · Community ImprovementRHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL: $2,140,500 · Arts & CultureRHODE ISLAND BLACK HERITAGE SOCIETY: $1,446,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MUSICWORKS: $800,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AVENUE CONCEPT INC: $285,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $1,151,400 · Arts & CulturePROVIDENCE PROMISE: $540,500 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ RHODE ISLAND: $500,000 · EducationTHE EQUITY INSTITUTE: $445,000 · EducationWinners Circle XR Academy Inc: $325,640 · EducationESPERANZA HOPE: $275,000 · EducationCommunity Libraries of Providence: $200,000 · EducationRI WOMEN IN THE TRADES: $177,500 · EducationPROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $175,000 · EducationCOLLEGE VISIONS: $151,000 · EducationBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationNEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $150,000 · Education+9 more: $540,000 · Education
Other$39,901,799Health$9,137,140Human Services$7,618,000Crime & Legal$5,914,705Community Improvement$5,831,136Arts & Culture$5,822,900Education$3,629,640

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJUSTICE ASSISTANCE CORP: $5,664,705 over 4y, 93% of budgetLifespan Corporation: $4,502,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetELISHA PROJECT: $3,285,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetRhode Island Hospital Foundation: $2,648,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetCENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS: $2,545,691 over 4y, 39% of budgetLEADERSHIP RHODE ISLAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,147,810 over 4y, 38% of budgetRHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL: $2,140,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,939,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE & MAIN: $1,779,284 over 3y, 50% of budgetCENTRAL FALLS CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $1,666,640 over 4y, 68% of budgetRHODE ISLAND BLACK HERITAGE SOCIETY: $1,446,000 over 3y, 83% of budgetMount Hope Community Center Inc: $1,344,780 over 4y, 65% of budgetHigher Ground International: $1,221,500 over 3y, 74% of budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,215,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $1,075,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetAMOS HOUSE: $950,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSICWORKS: $800,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetSOJOURNER HOUSE INC: $753,250 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetWATERFIRE PROVIDENCE: $740,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $650,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetGREATER PROVIDENCE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $623,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetPROVIDENCE PROMISE: $540,500 over 3y, 51% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ RHODE ISLAND: $500,000 over 3y, 55% of budgetTHE EQUITY INSTITUTE: $445,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetBUTTON HOLE: $375,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetPROVIDENCE SPORTS & LEADERSHIP: $350,000 over 3y, 62% of budgetREENTRY CAMPUS PROGRAM: $345,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetWinners Circle XR Academy Inc: $325,640 over 2y, 75% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC: $325,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetRHODE ISLAND BLACK BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $302,500 over 3y, 21% of budgetRefugee Development Center: $290,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHE AVENUE CONCEPT INC: $285,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetESPERANZA HOPE: $275,000 over 4y, 79% of budgetNONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $250,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetRHODE ISLAND HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $245,172 over 4y, 16% of budgetWOMEN REFUGEE CARE: $235,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $230,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetFEDERAL HILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $220,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetJohn Hope Settlement House: $215,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetFARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC: $200,837 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetDORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $200,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND BAR FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetBEAUTIFUL DAY: $200,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetSOCIAL ENTERPRISE GREENHOUSE: $200,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetCommunity Libraries of Providence: $200,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE: $200,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAUS OF CODEC: $190,000 over 3y, 43% of budget
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.

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.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
63report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 432 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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