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Rhode Island Community Action Association at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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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
2
States reached
$437k
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.

Human Services$2.5M
02FY2018 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • $50k–250k5 grants · $622k
  • $250k+1 grant · $437k
$125,751
Median grant
2
States reached
$194k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMPREHENSIVE CAP$437,039
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERS OF PROVIDENCE$161,133
BLACKSTONE VALLEY CAP$125,751
FULCIMUS LLC$120,000
COMMUNITY CARE ALLIANCE$109,616
TRI COUNTY CAP$105,389
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%EAST BAY CAP: $86k → 7%TRI COUNTY CAP: $105k → 14%TRI COUNTY CAP: $84k → 14%COMPREHENSIVE CAP: $728k → 14%COMPREHENSIVE CAP: $437k → 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 5 repeat orgs$275k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
2

Total granted

$2.2M
$155k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+154%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1.2M · revenue +95%
  • COMMUNITY CARE ALLIANCE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $254k · revenue +87%
  • TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $190k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • EAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $86k · revenue +48%
  • WESTBAY COMMUNITY ACTION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $69k · revenue +154%
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 8 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $1,164,617 · Human ServicesCOMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION INCTRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $189,507 · Human ServicesTRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCYEAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $85,795 · Human ServicesEAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMBLACKSTONE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $271,802 · OtherBLACKSTONE VALLEY COM…FULCIMUS LLC: $120,000 · OtherFULCIMUS LLCWESTBAY COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $69,430 · OtherWESTBAY COMMUNITY ACT…COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF PROVIDENCE COUNTY: $322,266 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY ACTI…COMMUNITY CARE ALLIANCE: $254,192 · HealthCOMMUNITY C…
Human Services$1,439,919Other$461,232Community Improvement$322,266Health$254,192

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $1,164,617 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF PROVIDENCE COUNTY: $322,266 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBLACKSTONE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $271,802 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE ALLIANCE: $254,192 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $189,507 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $85,795 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWESTBAY COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $69,430 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

Rhode Island Communit…The Champlin Foundati…United Way of Rhode I…The Rhode Island Comm…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rhode Island Community Action Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rhode Island Community Action Association. 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 →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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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    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.

    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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