· Public charity
Women's Fund of Rhode Island
Invests in women and girls through research, advocacy, grant making and strategic partnerships designed to achieve gender equity through systemic change.
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 9 grants below total $84,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $94,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,000 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 $10k5 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Planned Parenthood | $10,000 |
| Amos House | $10,000 |
| RI Abortion Fund | $10,000 |
| Arise | $10,000 |
| Real Access Motivates Progress | $9,900 |
| Young Voices | $8,786 |
| Refugee Dream Center | $8,738 |
| RI Coalition to End Homelessness | $8,738 |
| SafeBae | $7,838 |
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, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 FOR COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE4× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +185%- PSPROJECT SOUTH INC3× · 2019–2021 · $49k · revenue +339%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC5× · 2018–2025 · $44k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- RIRHODE ISLAND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +775%
YEAR UP INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +1%- RIRHODE ISLAND MAYORAL ACADEMY (SM) BLACKSTONE VALLEYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +51%
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.
Invests in women and girls through research, advocacy, grant making and strategic partnerships designed to achieve gender equity through systemic change.
The Latino Policy Institute works to stimulate public policy discourse by examining and communicating the evolving experiences of the Latino community in Rhode Island. LPI is committed to educating, activating, and motivating community…
The organization's mission is to eliminate health disparities in rhode island and beyond. the organization develops innovative public health programs, conducts translational and policy research, provides clinical services, and trains…
Through civic engagement, policy advancement and artivism, The Womxn Project takes action to secure reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ rights and government transparency in Rhode Island.
To provide the general public and small businesses, with less than 50 employees, with business development assistance, through education, training and consultation.
To protect women's health and reproductive choice through advocacy in 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.
To increase access to justice in rhode island by providing free legal assistance to low-income individuals, families and communities.
The ywca rhode island provides cultural, educational and recreational programs specifically for women, girls and young children.
Preservation of affordable housing in the state of rhode island
None
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Economic Progress Institute and the most unlike its peers is Project South 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 20 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
27 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 FOR COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG VOICES ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIANS FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND ABORTION FUND ↗
- Who funds Urban Perinatal Education Center ↗
- Who funds SEIU EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE ECONOMIC PROGRESS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND BLACK BUSINESS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Refugee Development Center ↗
- Who funds SafeBae Org Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSING WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND MAYORAL ACADEMY (SM) BLACKSTONE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds RAMP REAL ACCESS MOTIVATES PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds BUILDING FUTURES ↗
- Who funds RIOT RI ↗
- Who funds WOMEN REFUGEE CARE ↗
- Who funds DAY ONE ↗
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 · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Point32health Foundation Inc · Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · The Beacon Foundation
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 Women's Fund of Rhode Island 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
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Seiu Education and Support Fund — 6% of income from government
- Year Up 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.