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The Rhode Island Community Foundation
The rhode island foundation mobilizes generosity and motivates change that makes a difference
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 977 grants below total $72,000,540 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $76,135,619 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,135,079 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k177 grants · $1.2M
- $10k–50k466 grants · $9.7M
- $50k–250k292 grants · $31M
- $250k+42 grants · $30M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND | $5,005,549 |
| RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL | $3,146,865 |
| WOMEN & INFANTS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $2,014,274 |
| TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY | $1,525,724 |
| CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND | $1,313,225 |
| LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION | $1,278,675 |
| AMOS HOUSE | $1,038,471 |
| RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $1,028,026 |
| BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION INC | $1,013,500 |
| FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $807,500 |
| LINCOLN SCHOOL | $728,539 |
| NEW ENGLAND ACADEMY OF TORAH INC | $681,086 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT | $578,349 |
| RHODE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $521,426 |
| THE SOLAR INITIATIVE OF BLOCK ISLAND INC | $518,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $35.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +36% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
1003 repeat relationships — 751 still active in FY2024, 252 since wound down; 146 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.6M 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
- OHOLNEYVILLE HOUSING CORPORATION6× · 2019–2024 · $7.4M · revenue +212% · 32% of their budget
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION6× · 2019–2024 · $6.3M · revenue +80%
RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION6× · 2019–2024 · $6.0M · revenue +61%
Funded once
- HAHBC AFFORDABLE APARTMENTS INCone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · 94% of their budget
- CACHILDREN AND YOUTH CABINETgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $630k · revenue +52% · 68% of their budget
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICAone grant, 2023 · $500k
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.
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…
The university of rhode island alumni association informs and engages current and future alumni as committed partners of the university, its missions and traditions.
The rhode island bankers association will serve as the sole rhode island based organization serving the banking industry and will advocate for its member institutions and participate alongside other new england banking industry…
The rhode island foundation mobilizes generosity and motivates change that makes a difference
The mission of rhode island health care association is to enhance its members' ability to provide sustainable quality health care and quality of life to the residents of rhode island's skilled nursing facilities.as a state affiliate of the…
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.
Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council's mission is to promote changes wthin communities in Rhode Island that encourages, inspires and makes possible for individuals with disabilities to create, pursue and achieve lives that are…
To represent every constituency of healthcare leadership, as well as health insurance, consumer and public interest. to work collaboratively, come up with innovative solutions, champion changes throughout our organizations, and dedicate…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To promote the art and science of medicine for the betterment of public health and to advocate quality patient care and promote the exchange of information
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership for Rhode Island and the most unlike its peers is Borders Farm Preservation Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
1261 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. 1261 of the 1,546 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds OLNEYVILLE HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds PRESERVE RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Trinity Repertory Company ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds ROGER WILLIAMS PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Women & Infants Development Foundation ↗
- Who funds THUNDERMIST HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Hospital ↗
- Who funds CHARTERCARE COMMUNITY BOARD FKA CHARTERCARE HEALTH PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON SOCIETY OF RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE HARBOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CLINICA ESPERANZA HOPE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ROGERS FREE LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEHEALTH HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE ↗
- Who funds THE PROVIDENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND HEALTH CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Visiting Nurse Services of Newport and Bristol Counties Inc ↗
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: United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Champlin Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · The Beacon Foundation · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · Rhode Island Council for the Humanities
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 The Rhode Island Community Foundation 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.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
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.