· Public charity
Rhode Island Bar Foundation
RHODE ISLAND BAR FOUNDATION's mission is to foster and maintain the honor and integrity of the profession of law and to study, improve and facilitate the administration of justice in rhode island, as well as promote the study of law, research therein and diffusion of knowledge and to promote high standards of legal education.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $1,203,754 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,359,754 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $156,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $106k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $361k
- $250k+1 grant · $706k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RI LEGAL SERVICES | $705,504 |
| DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE | $182,669 |
| RI BAR ASSOCIATION - ELDERLY PRO BONO | $123,900 |
| JUSTICE ASSISTANCE | $54,431 |
| RI LEGAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| CENTER FOR MEDIATION & COLLABORATION RI | $20,000 |
| RI CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $13,000 |
| RI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $12,000 |
| RI COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | $11,000 |
| KIDS IN NEED OF DEFENSE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| DAY ONE | $8,750 |
| RIPIN | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| SOJOURNER HOUSE | $7,500 |
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- RLRI LEGAL SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $3.9M
- DIDORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE5× · 2021–2025 · $660k
- RBRI BAR ASSOCIATION - ELDERLY PRO BONO9× · 2017–2025 · $594k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2025 · $10k
- KIKIDS IN NEED OF DEFENSEone grant, 2025 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2025 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.