· Public charity
Rhode Island Community Food Bank Association
To improve the quality of life for all rhode islanders by advancing solutions to the problem of hunger.
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.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS4× · 2022–2025 · $367k · revenue +35%
FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC2× · 2021–2022 · $250k · revenue +3%
MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED8× · 2018–2025 · $210k · revenue +193%
Funded once
- CUCHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $74k
- USUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCEone grant, 2022 · $49k
- FFFAITH FELLOWSHIP ASSEMBLY OF GODone grant, 2023 · $35k
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.
We seek to minimize hunger and provide nutritional sustenanc
Christian mission to the poor providing food, shelter clothing and counseling to the homeless
The rhode island dream center provides hope and holistic support to the impoverished in the greater rhode island area through food, clothing and services.
To provide food to organizations that feed the poor, distressed and the underprivileged.
To improve the quality of life for all rhode islanders by advancing solutions to the problem of hunger.
Promoting a more equitable, economically vibrant, and environmentally sustainable food system in rhode island.
To supply the necessary food to needy residents
The mission of mae organization is to work with the homeless and help them transition through workshops, and other related programs
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…
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.
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,…
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
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.
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 field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS ↗
- Who funds FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FEDERAL HILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMERCIAL FISHERIES CENTER OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC ↗
- Who funds CARTWHEELRI ↗
- Who funds THE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EAST FARM COMMERCIAL FISHERIES ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF PROVIDENCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds WEST END COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH KINGSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTBAY COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds PROGRESO LATINO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL (SVDP) RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds ST EDWARDS FOOD AND WELLNESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Refugee Development Center ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds RI CENTER ASSISTING THOSE IN NEED ↗
- Who funds COWDEN STREET COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS INC ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WOMEN REFUGEE CARE ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
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 · 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.
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.