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Rhode Island Community Food Bank Association at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Food & Nutrition$1.8MHuman Services$713kReligion$332kRecreation & Sports$157kCommunity Improvement$54kHealth$27kHousing & Shelter$26kEducation$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 28 grants below total $352,652, the rows itemized in this filing. The $422,919 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $70,267 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIANS$50,000
THE COMMERCIAL FISHERIES CENTER OF RI$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
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES RI$10,000
EAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM$10,000
THE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC$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

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 (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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

+49%
+16%

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
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

  • 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
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
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
Feed Ri

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

Food & Nutrition
4
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
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
West Bridgewater Food Pantry Inc

To supply the necessary food to needy residents

Food & Nutrition
7
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
8
Rhode Island Food Policy Council

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

Food & Nutrition
9
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
10
Falmouth Food Pantry Inc

our goal is to alleviate hunger through providing healthy foods as well as basic hygiene supplies. We respond also to specific food needs caused by medical and religious requirements.

Food & Nutrition
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Martin De Porres Center; 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.
04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
41/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetSOJOURNER HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMCAULEY CORPORATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBLACKSTONE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM 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
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…The Champlin Foundati…Washington Trust Co C…June Rockwell Levy Fo…Amica Companies Found…Banknewport Charitabl…Ralph R Papitto & Bar…Centreville Savings B…Point32health Foundat…Uw Urania C SherburneCitizens Charitable F…
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

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 Food Bank Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rhode Island Community Food Bank Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's 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, 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.

    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 82 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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