Rhode Island · 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.
- $94k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $84k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,900
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Women's Fund of Rhode Island funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $84k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $142k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $64k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $64k | 86% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $60k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $48k | 80% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $50k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island for Community and Justice | $80,383 | 4 | 8% |
| Project South Inc | $49,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc | $44,323 | 5 | 0% |
| Young Voices | $34,572 | 4 | 2% |
| Center for Women & Enterprise Inc | $33,724 | 4 | 0% |
| Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless Inc | $32,476 | 4 | 0% |
| Amos House | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence | $29,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Alliance of Rhode Island Southeast Asians for Education | $28,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The Economic Progress Institute | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 27 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Women's Fund of Rhode Island supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Women's Fund of Rhode Island
- How much does Women's Fund of Rhode Island give?
- Women's Fund of Rhode Island reported 9 itemized grants totaling $84,000, out of $94,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Women's Fund of Rhode Island fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (27%), Health (20%), Community Improvement (12%).
- Who are Women's Fund of Rhode Island's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rhode Island for Community and Justice ($80k), Project South Inc ($49k), Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc ($44k).
- Does Women's Fund of Rhode Island fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Women's Fund of Rhode Island?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, United Way of Rhode Island Inc, Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation.
- Where is Women's Fund of Rhode Island based?
- Women's Fund of Rhode Island is based in RI.
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