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Rhode Island Community Food Bank Association

To improve the quality of life for all rhode islanders by advancing solutions to the problem of hunger.

$423k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION’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.

02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 28 grants below total $352,652 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $422,919 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $70,267 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 $10k19 grants · $135k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $118k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$8,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE COMMERCIAL FISHERIES CENTER OF RI$50,000
CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS$50,000
FEDERAL HILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION$43,880
EAST BAY FOOD PANTRY$22,936
DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC$10,800
WEST END COMMUNITY CENTER INC$10,198
THE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC$10,000
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES RI$10,000
EAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM$10,000
COMMUNITY CARE ALLIANCE$9,302
SCALABRINI LAY MOVEMENT INC$8,800
REFUGEE DEVELOPMENT CENTER$8,800
PROGRESO LATINO$8,600
LOVE DIVINE INC$8,500
YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRY$8,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $647k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PROGRESO LATINO INC: $18k → 14%EAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $15k → 7%FAMILY SERVICES OF RHODE ISLAND: $55k → 14%PROGRESO LATINO: $9k → 14%EAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $10k → 7%EAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $10k → 7%FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND: $22k → 14%EAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $9k → 7%PROGRESO LATINO INC: $7k → 14%RHODE ISLAND CENTER ASSISTING THOSE INNEED: $14k → 7%RHODE ISLAND CENTER ASSISTING THOSE IN NEED: $10k → 7%RICAN: $3k → 7%PROGRESO LATINO: $5k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $8k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $6k → 14%EAST BAY CAP: $4k → 14%FEDERAL HILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $50k → 14%FEDERAL HILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $44k → 14%FEDERAL HILL HOUSE: $35k → 14%FEDERAL HILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $18k → 14%FEDERAL HILL HOUSE: $17k → 14%SCALABRINI LAY MOVEMENT INC: $9k → 14%FEDERAL HILL HOUSE - AGENCY #102900: $6k → 14%JEWISH COLLABORATIVE: $60k → 14%ST EDWARD FOOD AND WELLNESS CENTER: $11k → 14%JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES: $11k → 14%ST EDWARD FOOD AND WELLNESS CENTER: $10k → 14%ST EDWARD FOOD AND WELLNESS CENTER: $9k → 14%TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $14k → 14%SVDP ST RAYMOND CHURCH: $3k → 14%TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $3k → 14%SVDP ST PHILIP FOOD PANTRY: $4k → 14%CROSSROADS RI: $13k → 14%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION: $11k → 14%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $10k → 14%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $6k → 14%WEST END COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $17k → 14%REFUGEE DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $13k → 14%WOMEN'S REFUGEE CARE: $12k → 14%WEST END COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10k → 14%REFUGEE DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $9k → 14%REFUGEE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $7k → 14%WOMEN'S REFUGEE CARE: $7k → 14%WEST END COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $7k → 14%PROJECT WEBERRENEW: $6k → 14%WEST END COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 14%WEST END COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 38 repeat orgs$504k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
36

Total granted

$2.7M
$448k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+15%

Still filing today

87%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementInternationalEducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $367k · revenue +35%
  • FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $250k · revenue +3%
  • MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED
    8× · 2018–2025 · $210k · revenue +193%

Funded once

  • CU
    CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $74k
  • US
    UNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE
    one grant, 2022 · $49k
  • FF
    FAITH FELLOWSHIP ASSEMBLY OF GOD
    one grant, 2023 · $35k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Jamestown Community Food Pantry

We seek to minimize hunger and provide nutritional sustenanc

Food & Nutrition
2
Rhode Island Rescue Ministries

Christian mission to the poor providing food, shelter clothing and counseling to the homeless

Human Services
3
Rhode Island Dream Center

The rhode island dream center provides hope and holistic support to the impoverished in the greater rhode island area through food, clothing and services.

Human Services
4
Feed Ri

To provide food to organizations that feed the poor, distressed and the underprivileged.

Food & Nutrition
5
Rhode Island Community Food Bank Association

To improve the quality of life for all rhode islanders by advancing solutions to the problem of hunger.

Food & Nutrition
6
Rhode Island Food Policy Council

Promoting a more equitable, economically vibrant, and environmentally sustainable food system in rhode island.

Food & Nutrition
7
West Bridgewater Food Pantry Inc

To supply the necessary food to needy residents

Food & Nutrition
8
Mae Organization Inc

The mission of mae organization is to work with the homeless and help them transition through workshops, and other related programs

Employment
9
Community Cooks Inc

Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…

Food & Nutrition
10
The Family Pantry of Cape Cod Corp

The family pantry's mission is to provide food and clothing to those in need without regard to age, race, color, national origin, religion, residence, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, handicap, veteran, or any other status.

Food & Nutrition
11
Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc

The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…

Food & Nutrition
12
East Boston Community Soup Kitchen Inc

To feed, shelter and assist with recovery and self-care the hungry and homeless in our community, and to do so without judgement or exclusivity

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Martin De Porres Center and the most unlike its peers is Sand Lake Baptist Church. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySenior Residential CareRegional Community Developm…Senior Care & ServicesArts & Cultural Organizatio…Brown University Medical Ed…Community Economic Developm…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr12%10%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr18%5%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr18%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr12%9%5–10yr18%20%10–20yr18%4%20–35yr14%40%35–55yr18%26%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/77
the rest of the field
10%
456/4,458

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

51 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 82 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
41/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS — $366,580 · OtherCENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANSTHE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC — $91,621 · OtherTHE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INCTHE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC — $85,025 · OtherTHE JONNYCAKE CENTER INCCHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $73,915 · OtherST PATRICK FOOD CLOSET — $70,736 · OtherNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES SOCIETY OF S — $60,014 · OtherST PETERS & ST ANDREWS CHURCH — $59,133 · OtherUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE — $49,275 · Other+41 more — $548,423 · Other+41 moreFEDERAL HILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC — $168,939 · Human ServicesFEDERAL HILL HOUSE ASSO…FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $76,750 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE…JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES — $71,110 · Human ServicesJEWISH COLLABORATIVE SE…EAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM — $48,426 · Human ServicesEAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTI…WEST END COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $45,609 · Human ServicesWEST END COMMUNITY CENT…PROGRESO LATINO — $38,679 · Human ServicesPROGRESO LATINOST EDWARDS FOOD AND WELLNESS CENTER INC — $30,215 · Human ServicesRefugee Development Center — $28,550 · Human ServicesCOMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $27,300 · Human ServicesRI CENTER ASSISTING THOSE IN NEED — $26,900 · Human Services+7 more — $84,654 · Human Services+7 moreFARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC — $250,000 · Food & NutritionFARM FRESH RHODE ISLAN…THE COMMERCIAL FISHERIES CENTER OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $100,000 · Food & NutritionTHE COMMERCIAL FISHERI…CARTWHEELRI — $90,428 · Food & NutritionCARTWHEELRIEAST FARM COMMERCIAL FISHERIES — $80,000 · Food & NutritionEAST FARM COMMERCIAL F…EAST BAY FOOD PANTRY — $33,436 · Food & NutritionEAST BAY FOOD PANTRY+6 more — $61,917 · Food & Nutrition+6 moreMARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED — $210,013 · Recreation & SportsDORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $128,875 · InternationalCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF PROVIDENCE COUNTY — $71,217 · Community ImprovementCONNECTING FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $48,002 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY CARE ALLIANCE — $37,802 · Health
Other$1,404,722Human Services$647,132Food & Nutrition$615,781Recreation & Sports$210,013International$128,875Community Improvement$119,219Health$37,802

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS — $366,580 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetFARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC — $250,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED — $210,013 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetFEDERAL HILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC — $168,939 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetDORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $128,875 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE COMMERCIAL FISHERIES CENTER OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $100,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC — $91,621 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCARTWHEELRI — $90,428 over 3y, 62% of budgetTHE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC — $85,025 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetEAST FARM COMMERCIAL FISHERIES — $80,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $76,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF PROVIDENCE COUNTY — $71,217 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES — $71,110 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM — $48,426 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTING FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $48,002 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWEST END COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $45,609 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetNORTH KINGSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC — $44,932 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetWESTBAY COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $42,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPROGRESO LATINO — $38,679 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE ALLIANCE — $37,802 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL (SVDP) RHODE ISLAND — $36,595 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetEAST BAY FOOD PANTRY — $33,436 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetST EDWARDS FOOD AND WELLNESS CENTER INC — $30,215 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetRefugee Development Center — $28,550 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $27,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRI CENTER ASSISTING THOSE IN NEED — $26,900 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCOWDEN STREET COLLABORATIVE INC — $21,850 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMOS HOUSE — $19,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN REFUGEE CARE — $18,965 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY — $16,995 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST WARWICK ASSISTANCE AGENCY — $15,722 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBORS INC — $13,826 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLittle Compton Food Bank — $12,995 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetBETTER LIVES RHODE ISLAND — $12,881 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND — $12,763 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF RI INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLACKSTONE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMCAULEY CORPORATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOJOURNER HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST MARTIN DE PORRES CENTER — $9,164 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBLESSED MOTHER MARY FOOD PANTRY INC — $7,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC — $6,905 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAND LAKE BAPTIST CHURCH — $5,200 over 1y, 12% of budgetBARRINGTON TAP-IN INC — $5,050 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI103.9× affinity56 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 · The Champlin Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Amica Companies Foundation · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Point32health Foundation Inc · Uw Urania C Sherburne · Citizens Charitable Foundation

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 Community Food Bank Association 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 82 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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