· Public charity
Rhode Island Commission for National and Community Service
Serve rhode island's mission is to transform the lives of rhode islanders by increasing the number of people engaged in volunteer and service activities in their communities.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of RHODE ISLAND COMMISSION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $801k
- $250k+1 grant · $268k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY YEAR | $267,849 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $159,051 |
| NEIGHBOR WORKS BLACKSTONE RIVER VALLEY | $120,888 |
| INSTITUTE ON THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF NONVIOLENCE | $118,687 |
| THE LEARNING COMMUNITY | $99,700 |
| PROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $88,838 |
| PROVIDENCE AFTER SCHOOL ALLIANCE | $75,580 |
| PROVIDENCE CITY ARTS FOR YOUTH INC | $70,250 |
| CONNECTING FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES | $67,737 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $30,315 |
| FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND | $13,060 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $174k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $257k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
CITY YEAR INC2× · 2017–2018 · $1.0M · revenue +15%
THE LEARNING COMMNUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC2× · 2017–2018 · $223k · revenue +33%- NINONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE2× · 2017–2018 · $174k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- PCPROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM2× · 2017–2018 · $89k · revenue +1%
- PCProvidence CityArts for Youth Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $70k · revenue -94%
CONNECTING FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INCgraduated2× · 2017–2018 · $68k · revenue +40%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Trinity academy for the performing arts utilizes an interdisciplinary arts-integrated program to prepare our artist-scholars for collegiate and professional success.
The mission of pvd prep is to prepare a diverse group of providence middle school students for college preparatory high schools.
Community preparatory school is an independent private school, serving grades 4 to 8, striving to empower our diverse student body to reach full academic and leadership potential while building a beloved community.
Personal initiative, perserverance and social responsibility. our facility is committed to differentiated instruction and evidence-based practices that connect academic success to social-emotional learning.
The parent support network of ri is a group of parents, family members, transition age youth, and adults with behavioral health lived experience who are committed to supporting and assisting peers and working with statewide and national…
Our mission is to cultivate a community where students take ownership of their education, preparing them to excel in high school, college, and beyond. we provide a rigorous academic experience that empowers scholars to view themselves as…
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…
Partnership with children's mission is to strengthen the emotional, social, and cognitive skills of children in new york city so they can succeed in school, society, and life.
Providence promise promotes high educational aspirations and more equitable opportunities for providence public school students by advocating for college savings accounts and family engagement, increasing financial literacy, and reducing…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The hope academy is committed to an educational model focusing on the academic and social success of each individual, preparing students to meet the challenges of the future.
Rippowam Cisqua School creates independent thinkers, confident communicators, and engaged leaders who respect and contribute meaningfully to a diverse and increasingly complex global society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Year Inc and the most unlike its peers is Woonsocket Neighborhood Development Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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.
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.
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING COMMNUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WOONSOCKET NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE AFTER SCHOOL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Providence CityArts for Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Billy Andrade-Brad Faxon Charities for Children Inc · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Mary D Chafee Fund Co Mark Chafee · Cvs Health Charity Classic Inc · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Rhode Island Commission for National and Community Service funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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