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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2018
11
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$268k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Youth Development$1.2MHuman Services$265kEducation$253kHousing & Shelter$196kCommunity Improvement$159kArts & Culture$89k
02FY2018 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $801k
  • $250k+1 grant · $268k
$88,838
Median grant
2
States reached
$57k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%INSTITUTE ON THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF NONVIOLENCE: $119k → 14%INSTITUTE ON THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF NONVIOLENCE: $55k → 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 6 repeat orgs$257k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$1.7M
$257k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+1%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $257k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterArts & CultureCommunity 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

  • CITY YEAR INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1.0M · revenue +15%
  • THE LEARNING COMMNUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $223k · revenue +33%
  • NI
    NONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $174k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • PC
    PROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
    2× · 2017–2018 · $89k · revenue +1%
  • PC
    Providence CityArts for Youth Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $70k · revenue -96%
  • CONNECTING FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INCgraduated
    2× · 2017–2018 · $68k · revenue +40%
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
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
2
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
3
Community Preparatory School

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.

Education
4
Paul Cuffee School

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.

Education
5
Parent Support Network of Rhode Island

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…

Human Services
6
Cowden Street Collaborative Inc

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…

Education
7
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
8
Partnership With Children Inc

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.

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9
Providence Promise

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…

Education
10
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
11
The Hope Academy

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.

Education
12
The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc

Rippowam Cisqua School creates independent thinkers, confident communicators, and engaged leaders who respect and contribute meaningfully to a diverse and increasingly complex global society.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Year Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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.

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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY YEAR INC: $1,014,287 · OtherCITY YEAR INCTHE LEARNING COMMNUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $223,126 · EducationTHE LEARNING …Teach for America Inc: $30,315 · EducationTeach for Ame…BROWN UNIVERSITY: $159,051 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVER…CONNECTING FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $67,737 · Community ImprovementCONNECTING F…NONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $174,132 · Human ServicesNONVIOLENC…FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $22,694 · Human ServicesFAMILY SER…WOONSOCKET NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $195,816 · Housing & ShelterWOONSOCKET…PROVIDENCE AFTER SCHOOL ALLIANCE: $89,429 · Youth DevelopmentProvidence CityArts for Youth Inc: $70,250 · Youth DevelopmentPROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $88,838 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,014,287Education$253,441Community Improvement$226,788Human Services$196,826Housing & Shelter$195,816Youth Development$159,679Arts & Culture$88,838

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCITY YEAR INC: $1,014,287 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LEARNING COMMNUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $223,126 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWOONSOCKET NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $195,816 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetNONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $174,132 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $159,051 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE AFTER SCHOOL ALLIANCE: $89,429 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetPROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $88,838 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetProvidence CityArts for Youth Inc: $70,250 over 2y, 21% of budgetCONNECTING FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $67,737 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $30,315 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $22,694 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

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 Comm…United Way of Rhode I…Washington Trust Co C…Billy Andrade-Brad Fa…Ralph R Papitto & Bar…The Champlin Foundati…June Rockwell Levy Fo…The Nordson Corporati…Amica Companies Found…Mary D Chafee Fund Co…Cvs Health Charity Cl…Banknewport Charitabl…
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI23.7× affinity9 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 · 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

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 Rhode Island Commission for National and Community Service funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rhode Island Commission for National and Community Service. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 Rhode Island Commission for National and Community Service 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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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