How do I find funders for a religion nonprofit in Rhode Island?

Start with the funders already giving to religion in Rhode Island, currently Jewish Communal Fund, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Rhode Island Community Foundation. Then look at who funds the religion organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Rhode Island from out of state.

Who is the largest religion funder in Rhode Island?

Jewish Communal Fund gives the most to religion organizations in Rhode Island, $3M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to religion in Rhode Island?

$15M reached 48 religion organizations in Rhode Island, from 120 funders. 17% came from funders also based in Rhode Island.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Rhode Island · Religion

Who funds religion in Rhode Island

Most of it comes from outside Rhode Island: only 17% is from funders based in the state, so national funders set the agenda here. Funding is concentrated: Brown Hillel Foundation alone draws 52% of every religion grant dollar in Rhode Island.

$15M

granted

organizations

17%

from in-state

The short version

120 funders gave $15M to 48 religion organizations in Rhode Island across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
17% of that came from funders also based in Rhode Island; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of religion in Rhode Island is Jewish Communal Fund, at $3M.
The religion organization drawing the most is Brown Hillel Foundation, at $8M.

Largest funders of religion in Rhode Island

The funders giving the most to religion organizations in Rhode Island, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Jewish Communal Fund$3M 2Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$2M 3The Rhode Island Community Foundation$2M 4The Alice M & Thomas J Tisch Foundation Inc$1M 5Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$804k 6Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life$692k 7The Margaret and Daniel Loeb Foundation$610k 8Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island$440k 9Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc$398k 10Micah Philanthropies$281k

Religion organizations in Rhode Island that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

Brown Hillel Foundation$8M International Beit Din Inc$2M New England Academy of Torah Inc$1M New England Urban Church Planting$1M

38 other religion organizations$946k

Hillel Foundation at the University of Rhode Island$869k

How to find religion funders in Rhode Island

1
Start with the funders already active in Rhode Island
The funders giving the most to religion in Rhode Island are Jewish Communal Fund, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Rhode Island Community Foundation. A funder already writing religion checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the religion organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
83% of religion money in Rhode Island comes from funders elsewhere, so national religion funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Rhode Island.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a religion nonprofit in Rhode Island?: Start with the funders already giving to religion in Rhode Island, currently Jewish Communal Fund, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Rhode Island Community Foundation. Then look at who funds the religion organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Rhode Island from out of state.
Who is the largest religion funder in Rhode Island?: Jewish Communal Fund gives the most to religion organizations in Rhode Island, $3M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to religion in Rhode Island?: $15M reached 48 religion organizations in Rhode Island, from 120 funders. 17% came from funders also based in Rhode Island.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.