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Rhode Island Community Action Association

Serve rhode island's network of community action agencies through training, and technical assistance, public education, capacity building, and for the development of public policy to address the impact of poverty in our state.

$1.1M
Granted FY2018
6
Grants FY2018
6
Organizations funded FY2018
17%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$125,751
Largest grant, FY2018
$437,039
Organizations funded a year
6 to 7
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
2
Total assets, FY2018
$194k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 17% of the organizations Rhode Island Community Action Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20186$1.1M17%
FY20177$1.4Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$2.5M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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.

Rhode Island Community Food Bank AssociationRI17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rhode Island Community Food Bank Association · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Rhode Island Community Action Association?

Find your warmest path to Rhode Island Community Action Association 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.

About Rhode Island Community Action Association

How much does Rhode Island Community Action Association give?
Rhode Island Community Action Association reported 6 grants totaling $1,058,928 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Rhode Island Community Action Association fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Human Services (100%).
Who are Rhode Island Community Action Association's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Comprehensive Community Action Inc ($1.2M), Community Action Partnership of Providence County ($322k), Blackstone Valley Community Action Program Inc ($272k).
Does Rhode Island Community Action Association fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rhode Island Community Action Association?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rhode Island Community Food Bank Association, The Champlin Foundation, United Way of Rhode Island Inc.
Where is Rhode Island Community Action Association based?
Rhode Island Community Action Association is based in RI.

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 8 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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