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Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Foundation at a glance

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Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Foundation

The RHODE ISLAND TURNPIKE AND BRIDGE FOUNDATION's mission is to support local communities and nonprofit organizations that have a positive impact on the lives of rhode islanders.

$137k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
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 2025.

Human Services$130kRecreation & Sports$87kEnvironment$58kHealth$50kEducation$38kArts & Culture$18kPhilanthropy$10k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $77,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $136,700 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $59,700 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 $10k5 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$41k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSEUM OF NEWPORT IRISH HISTORY$10,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF RI$10,000
DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR$10,000
MEETING STREET SCHOOL$10,000
LOOKING UPWARDS$8,000
SAMARITIANS OF RHODE ISLAND$8,000
SAVE THE BAY$8,000
C THOMAS CLAGETT REGATTA$6,500
WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF$6,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LOOKING UPWARDS: $8k → 7%LOOKING UPWARDS: $8k → 7%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF: $7k → 7%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF: $6k → 7%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT & BRISTOL COUNTIES: $6k → 7%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT: $6k → 7%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$372k · 11 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
2

Total granted

$372k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+98%

Still filing today

91%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’22’23’25
Recreation & SportsHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • SAVE THE BAY INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $58k · revenue +16%
  • MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED
    6× · 2018–2025 · $58k · revenue +193%
  • SPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $57k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • RI
    ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • SOJOURNER HOUSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +98%
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
Disability Rights Rhode Island

To assist rhode islanders with differing abilities in their efforts to achieve full inclusion in society and to exercise their civil and human rights through the provision of legal advocacy.

Civil Rights
2
Newport News Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

Advocate for abused and neglected children

Crime & Legal
3
Rhode Island Marine Trade Association

Rimta's mission is to champion the rhode island marine industry through advocacy, education, environmental stewardship, innovation and promotion.

—
4
Nami Rhode Island

The mission of NAMI Rhode Island is to educate the public about mental illness; to offer resources and support to all whose lives are touched by mental illness; to advocate at every level to ensure the rights and dignity of those with…

Health
5
Pace Organization of Rhode Island

To respect all older adults by hearing their voice, healing their hearts, building community, and delivering exceptional and equitable healthcare.

Health
6
Day of Portugal and Portuguese Heritage in Ri Inc

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

Human Services
7
Hospital Association of Rhode Island

To be a proactive advocate for the hospitals in rhode island that is capable of working for and with the hospitals to positively influence public opinion, legislative outcomes and regulatory policy. the purpose of such advocacy is to…

—
8
Bike Newport

Bike newport's mission is to ensure that bicycling is a viable, safe, and comfortable primary choice for transportation and recreation.

Environment
9
Parent Support Network of Rhode Island

The parent support network of ri is a group of parents, family members, transition age youth, and adults with behavioral health lived experience who are committed to supporting and assisting peers and working with statewide and national…

Human Services
10
Rhode Island Police Chiefs Association Inc

Ri chiefs of police gather to share information on new or proposed state laws and maintaining best methods for state's citizens' protection

Community Improvement
11
Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence

The purpose of the ricadv is to eliminate domestic violence in rhode island our mission is to support and enhance the work of our member agencies and to provide leadership on the issue of domestic violence.

—
12
Newport Partnership for Families

To develop and maintain a coordinated network of collaborating partners that measurably strengthens families and enhances the quality of life in the city of newport, middletown, and more broadly newport county, ri.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sojourner House Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Samaritans 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC: $56,500 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAN…HONOR MAE MEUNIER TRUST FUND: $25,000 · OtherHONOR MAE MEUNIER TRUST FUNDROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · OtherROTARY INTERNATIONALSOJOURNER HOUSE INC: $7,500 · OtherSOJOURNER HOUSE INCMARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED: $57,500 · Recreation & SportsMARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUN…CLAGETT SAILING: $18,500 · Recreation & SportsCLAGETT SAILINGSAIL NEWPORT: $11,500 · Recreation & SportsSAIL NEWPORTMeeting Street: $47,500 · HealthMeeting StreetThe Samaritans Inc: $40,000 · HealthThe Samaritans IncSAVE THE BAY INC: $58,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE BAY INCWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES: $24,000 · Human ServicesWOMENS RESO…LOOKING UPWARDS INC: $15,500 · Human ServicesLOOKING UPW…MUSEUM OF NEWPORT IRISH HISTORY INC: $17,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$99,000Recreation & Sports$87,500Health$87,500Environment$58,000Human Services$39,500Arts & Culture$17,500

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 budgetSAVE THE BAY INC: $58,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED: $57,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC: $56,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMeeting Street: $47,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Samaritans Inc: $40,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES: $24,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCLAGETT SAILING: $18,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEWPORT IRISH HISTORY INC: $17,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetLOOKING UPWARDS INC: $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAIL NEWPORT: $11,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOJOURNER HOUSE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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…The Beacon FoundationUnited Way of Rhode I…The Champlin Foundati…Citizens Charitable F…Amica Companies Found…Billy Andrade-Brad Fa…Van Beuren Charitable…Arbella Insurance Fou…Banknewport Charitabl…Centreville Savings B…Eastern Bank Foundati…
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Beacon Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Champlin Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Billy Andrade-Brad Faxon Charities for Children Inc · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Eastern Bank 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 Turnpike and Bridge Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    5report 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 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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