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Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

98% of Rhode Island Hospital’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Brown University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

7
’17
4
’18
5
’19
4
’20
3
’21
2
’22
1
’23
0
’24
2
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2024.

Education$7.9MHealth$1.1MHuman Services$531kPublic Benefit$292kEmployment$150kPublic Safety & Disaster$10k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $1,379,481, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,417,981 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $38,500 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

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.4M
$12,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROWN UNIVERSITY$1,356,481
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$12,500
RHODE ISLAND MEDICAL SOCIETY$10,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $531k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Inst Study & Prac Nonviolence: $156k → 14%Inst Study & Prac Nonviolence: $125k → 14%Inst Study & Prac Nonviolence: $125k → 14%Inst Study & Prac Nonviolence: $94k → 14%Inst Study & Prac Nonviolence: $31k → 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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 6 repeat orgs$479k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +136% since the first grant, against +67% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$1.6M
$467k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+136%
+67%

Still filing today

100%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
HealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • Rhode Island Hospital Foundation
    7× · 2017–2023 · $825k · revenue +95%
  • NI
    NONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $531k · revenue +17%
  • THUNDERMIST HEALTH CENTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $126k · revenue +136%

Funded once

  • PS
    PROVIDENCE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2017 · $292k
  • UR
    UNAP RIH EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · 52% of their budget
  • RI
    Rhode Island Metro EMS Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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 Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
2
Newport Hospital Foundation Inc

NHF coordinates fundraising in support of comprehensive integrated health care services for the advancement and well-being of the southern Rhode Island community, in furtherance of the purposes of Newport Hospital.

Health
3
Coastal Medical Physicians Inc

CMPI was organized to provide accountable patient-centered, high quality, efficient, value-based and innovative care to serve the health needs of the communities in Rhode Island and elsewhere.

Health
4
Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital

As a member hospital in the Brown University Health system, EPBH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
5
Newport Hospital

As a member hospital in the Brown Health system, NH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
6
The Miriam Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, TMH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
7
Lifespan Physician Group Inc

Lifespan Physician Group, Inc., now known as Brown Health Medical Group (BHMG) provides accountable patient-centered, high quality, efficient, value-based care to serve the health care needs of Rhode Islanders and others. BHMG's mission…

Health
8
Brown Medicine

Brown medicine is a non-profit, academic, multi-specialty medical group with practice locations in providence, ri and surrounding communities. our three-part mission combines patient care, teaching, and research, enabling us to provide…

Health
9
Lifespan Corporation

Delivering health with care while maintaining a comprehensive, integrated, academic health system. brown university health provided support services to its affiliates to assure the delivery of high-quality health services, medical…

Health
10
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists Pllc

The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.

Health
11
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
12
Brown Emergency Medicine Inc

To provide exceptional emergency medical care, education, research, and service to the people of rhode island and beyond.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifespan Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 13 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROWN UNIVERSITY: $9,269,402 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITYRhode Island Hospital Foundation: $824,686 · HealthRhode Isla…THUNDERMIST HEALTH CENTER: $125,625 · HealthTHUNDERMIS…Lifespan Foundation Brown University Health Foundation: $57,312 · HealthThe Miriam Hospital Foundation: $43,000 · Health+3 more: $27,400 · HealthNONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $531,250 · Human ServicesPROVIDENCE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT: $292,000 · OtherUNAP RIH EDUCATION FUND: $150,000 · OtherRHODE ISLAND MEDICAL SOCIETY: $16,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · Other
Community Improvement$9,269,402Health$1,078,023Human Services$531,250Other$468,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $9,269,402 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetRhode Island Hospital Foundation: $824,686 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetNONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $531,250 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetUNAP RIH EDUCATION FUND: $150,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetTHUNDERMIST HEALTH CENTER: $125,625 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLifespan Foundation Brown University Health Foundation: $57,312 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetThe Miriam Hospital Foundation: $43,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLORIA GEMMA BREAST CANCER RESOURCE FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBradley Hospital Foundation: $6,400 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

The Rhode Island Comm…
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community 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 Hospital funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rhode Island Hospital. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 13 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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