· Public charity
United Way of Rhode Island Inc
United way's mission is uniting our community and resources to build racial equity and opportunities for all rhode islanders.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 282 grants below total $8,025,109 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $13,191,714 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,166,605 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k108 grants · $746k
- $10k–50k133 grants · $3.2M
- $50k–250k39 grants · $3.1M
- $250k+2 grants · $953k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $547,033 |
| LIFESPAN FOUNDATION | $406,298 |
| COMMUNITY CARE ALLIANCE | $184,575 |
| CONNECTING FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC | $163,463 |
| HERITAGE FLIGHT FOUNDATION | $144,000 |
| FEDERAL HILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION | $142,325 |
| CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND | $142,291 |
| NEWPORT PARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES | $134,108 |
| RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $129,360 |
| SOJOURNER HOUSE INC | $108,330 |
| MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| REFUGEE DREAM CENTER | $89,185 |
| DARE - DIRECT ACTION FOR RIGHTS AND EQUALITY | $88,231 |
| MIRIAM HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $86,083 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION (BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL TRUST) | $82,727 |
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 (FY17–25, $13.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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 +40% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
477 repeat relationships — 242 still active in FY2025, 235 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $620k 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
RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +106%
CONNECTING FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +40%
Lifespan Foundation Brown University Health Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +77% · 46% of their budget
Funded once
- RIRHODE ISLAND PARENT INFORMATION NETWORK INCone grant, 2022 · $151k · revenue +8%
- EBEAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMone grant, 2024 · $77k
- RCRI COMMUNITIES FOR ADDICTION RECOVERY EFFORTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $76k · revenue +147%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adoption Rhode Island and the most unlike its peers is Trades Up Initiative. 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 38 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
594 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. 594 of the 709 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 RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Lifespan Foundation Brown University Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds FEDERAL HILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL ENTERPRISE GREENHOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF PROVIDENCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND KIDS COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTER FORWARD ↗
- Who funds THE GENESIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT PARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds Meeting Street ↗
- Who funds New Urban Arts ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOUSING NETWORK OF RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds PROGRESO LATINO ↗
- Who funds Community Libraries of Providence ↗
- Who funds THE ECONOMIC PROGRESS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MAN UP INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds MENTOR RHODE ISLAND THE RI MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Refugee Development Center ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds DOWNCITY DESIGN ↗
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: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · The Beacon Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Billy Andrade-Brad Faxon Charities for Children Inc
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 United Way of Rhode Island Inc 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.
- Center for Women & Enterprise Inc — 27% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Sea Research Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 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.