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Rhode Island Council for the Humanities

RHODE ISLAND COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES seeds, supports, and strengthens public history, cultural heritage, civic education, and community engagement by and for all rhode islanders.

$273k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$12k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$735kArts & Culture$733kEducation$116kPublic Benefit$57kEmployment$24kCommunity Improvement$24kYouth Development$19kRecreation & Sports$19kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $134,795, the rows itemized in this filing. The $272,881 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $138,086 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $118k
$12,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$468k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
QUEERARCHIVEWORK INC$12,000
DIRT PALACE PUBLIC PROJECTS$12,000
ARMENIAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF RHODE ISLAND$12,000
NEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY$12,000
FRACTURED ATLAS$12,000
PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY$12,000
LITTLE COMPTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY$12,000
WEST BROADWAY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION$12,000
TIKKUN OLAM PRODUCTIONS$12,000
SCHOOL ONE$10,150
PRESERVE RHODE ISLAND$8,845
WANDERGROUND LESBIAN ARCHIVELIBRARY INC$7,800
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 (FY20–23, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LITARTS RI: $9k → 14%WHAT CHEER WRITERS CLUB: $15k → 14%WHAT CHEER WRITERS CLUB: $9k → 14%WHAT CHEER WRITERS CLUB: $8k → 14%AFRICAN ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND: $10k → 14%SOUTHSIDE CULTURAL CENTER OF RHODE ISLAND: $10k → 14%TRINITY RESTORATION INC(DBA SOUTHSIDE CULTURAL CENTER OF RHODE ISLAND): $8k → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Rhode Island Council for the Humanities’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in RI; by stated purpose, 91%.

Rhode Island Council for the Humanitieslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 38 repeat orgs$608k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
62

Total granted

$1.1M
$541k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+5%

Still filing today

89%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & 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

  • NF
    NEWPORT FILM INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $69k · revenue +86%
  • TM
    THE MANTON AVENUE PROJECT
    6× · 2017–2023 · $68k · revenue +25%
  • LC
    Little Compton Historical Society Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +118%

Funded once

  • IT
    INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $19k · revenue +101%
  • TM
    TOMAQUAG MUSEUM
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • SOUTH COUNTY MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue -25%
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
Rhode Island State Police Museum Foundation Inc

To collect, preserve, and maintain historical data in a museum setting; memorializing the ri state police as an educational resource for the public

Arts & Culture
2
Rhode Island Watercolor Society

The mission of the society is to promote the arts through art exhibits, awards, art classes, and demonstrations.

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3
Day of Portugal and Portuguese Heritage in Ri Inc

To celabrate the day of portugal in the state of rhode island

Human Services
4
The Museum Associates Risd

Stimulating public interest in and support of the rhode island school of design museum

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5
Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc
Arts & Culture
6
Jamestown Historical Society

To collect, preserve and share the heritage of jamestown ri

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7
The Company of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum

Founded in 1747 on the enlightenment ideals of intellectual pursuit and civic engagement, the redwood library and athenaeum generates knowledge in the humanities for the benefit of the widest possible audience with nothing in view but the…

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8
Preservation Society of Pawtucket

Discover memorialize & preserve the history and architecture of pawtucket ri by charitable & educational means through community service and preservation and maintenance of histroical buildings in the city.

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9
Art Museum New Bedford Inc

New Bedford Art Museum is dedicated to engaging a diverse audience in relevant exhibitions, exemplary education, and creative experiences as a vital innovative center for the arts.

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10
Museum of Work and Culture Preservation Foundation

To obtain private and public support to perpetuate the efforts of the museum of work and culture, and to teach the history of the blackstone valley.

Arts & Culture
11
Worcester Art Museum

To connect people, communities, and cultures through experience of art. collect the most significant works of art available in an effort to shape the quality/scope of the permanent collection while adhering to the institution's…

Arts & Culture
12
Blackstone River Theatre

None

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Newport Historical Society; the most unlike its peers is Wanderground Lesbian Archive Library Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

93 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. 93 of the 107 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/93
Grantees still filing
55/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEWPORT FILM INC: $69,248 · Arts & CultureNEWPORT FILM INCTHE MANTON AVENUE PROJECT: $68,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MANTON AVENUE PROJECTLittle Compton Historical Society Inc: $68,000 · Arts & CultureLittle Compton Historical Society IncFIRSTWORKS: $53,450 · Arts & CultureStages of Freedom: $53,256 · Arts & CultureRHODE ISLAND LATINO ARTS INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureNew Urban Arts: $41,900 · Arts & CultureTHE RHODE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $40,365 · Arts & CultureDirt Palace Public Projects: $35,000 · Arts & Culture+43 more: $551,930 · Arts & Culture+43 morePUSHED LEARNING AND MEDIA INC: $24,000 · OtherPUSHED LEARNING AND MED…QUEER ARCHIVE WORK: $24,000 · OtherQUEER ARCHIVE WORKSOUTH COUNTY HISTORY CENTER: $23,480 · OtherSOUTH COUNTY HISTORY CE…WATERFIRE PROVIDENCE: $21,200 · OtherWATERFIRE PROVIDENCEOASIS INTERNATIONAL: $18,300 · OtherTOMAQUAG MUSEUM: $15,000 · OtherRHODE ISLAND KUNG FU & LION DANCE CLUB: $13,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED: $18,600 · Other+25 more: $210,625 · Other+25 morePROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $28,895 · EducationPROVIDENC…SCHOOL ONE: $27,450 · EducationSCHOOL ON…EMPOWERMENT FACTORY: $18,000 · EducationEMPOWERME…RHODE ISLAND URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE: $13,000 · EducationRHODE ISL…CHARETTE CHARTER SCHOOL: $11,730 · EducationCHARETTE …NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $9,240 · EducationNAVAL WAR…Langworthy Public Library: $8,000 · EducationLangworth…WANDERGROUND LESBIAN ARCHIVE LIBRARY INC: $7,800 · EducationWANDERGRO…Community Libraries of Providence: $6,600 · EducationPROVIDENCE ATHENAEUM: $6,000 · EducationRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $5,000 · EducationGENERATION CITIZEN INC: $57,345 · Youth DevelopmentRiverzedge Arts Project: $16,400 · Youth DevelopmentLitArts RI: $40,835 · Human ServicesTrinity Restoration Inc: $18,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND (AARI): $10,000 · Human ServicesCACD CAPEVERDEAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY: $20,000 · Community ImprovementDESIGNXRI: $12,000 · Community ImprovementWest Broadway Neighborhood Association: $12,000 · Community ImprovementHistoric Warren Armory Inc: $8,000 · Community ImprovementPUERTO RICAN INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS AND ADVOCACY INC: $8,000 · Community ImprovementOPERATION STAND DOWN RHODE ISLAND: $24,000 · Employment
Arts & Culture$1,026,149Other$368,205Education$141,715Youth Development$73,745Human Services$68,835Community Improvement$60,000Employment$24,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEWPORT FILM INC: $69,248 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetTHE MANTON AVENUE PROJECT: $68,000 over 6y, 9.8% of budgetLittle Compton Historical Society Inc: $68,000 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetGENERATION CITIZEN INC: $57,345 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFIRSTWORKS: $53,450 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetStages of Freedom: $53,256 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND LATINO ARTS INC: $45,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetNew Urban Arts: $41,900 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetLitArts RI: $40,835 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $40,365 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetDirt Palace Public Projects: $35,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetThe Wilbury Theatre Group: $30,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetPROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $28,895 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPRESERVE RHODE ISLAND: $28,845 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $28,230 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSCHOOL ONE: $27,450 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEDUCATIONAL CENTER OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $25,400 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetOPERATION STAND DOWN RHODE ISLAND: $24,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY HISTORY CENTER: $23,480 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetPROVIDENCE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $22,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $22,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRHODE ISLAND BLACK HERITAGE SOCIETY: $21,700 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetWATERFIRE PROVIDENCE: $21,200 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCACD CAPEVERDEAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY: $20,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetRHODE ISLAND BLACK STORYTELLERS: $20,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED: $18,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOASIS INTERNATIONAL: $18,300 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetEMPOWERMENT FACTORY: $18,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetAurea: $18,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetTrinity Restoration Inc: $18,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetProvidence Children's Film Festival Inc: $18,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetRiverzedge Arts Project: $16,400 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetOLD SLATER MILL ASSOCIATION: $16,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetOCEAN STATE MEDIA GROUP: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRHODE ISLAND STATEHOUSE RESTORATION COMMITTEE: $13,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetWARWICK CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $13,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY MUSEUM INC: $13,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetTikkun Olam Productions Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetARMENIAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF RI: $12,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetDESIGNXRI: $12,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBLACKSTONE VALLEY TOURISM COUNCIL INC: $12,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAMOS HOUSE: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWest Broadway Neighborhood Association: $12,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FUTURO MEDIA GROUP: $11,910 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHARETTE CHARTER SCHOOL: $11,730 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSICWORKS: $11,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 Champlin Foundati…The Rhode Island Comm…Ralph R Papitto & Bar…United Way of Rhode I…June Rockwell Levy Fo…Amica Companies Found…Washington Trust Co C…The Nordson Corporati…Heritage Harbor Found…Ida Ballou Littlefiel…Textron Charitable Tr…Citizens Charitable F…
The Champlin FoundationPA114.6× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Champlin Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Amica Companies Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Heritage Harbor Foundation · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · 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 Council for the Humanities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rhode Island Council for the Humanities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 107 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 2024, released 2024. 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 $124k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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