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AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF RHODE ISLAND INC
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF RHODE ISLAND INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $374,530 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($246,914). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $375k
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Rhode Island Inc does
Mission
Legal representation and education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided legal representation and participated in over 30 lawsuits and administrative actions on a wide range of issues, including a successful suit over a citys refusal to allow a resident to speak at a public meeting; successful representation of a student with disabilities who was unlawfully assaulted and arrested by a school resource officer; representation of a town resident who was sued by a local fire district for testifying against the district at an administrative hearing; and a court decision refusing to dismiss a lawsuit we filed seeking remedies for thousands of current and former state employees whose persoanl health care information was breached.
$292,536 spent$302,047 earned by the program50% of program spendingPrepared, publicized and disseminated an array of know your rights materials in both English and Spanish on a variety of civil liberties issues, including students rights and rights of people in encouters with the police; and issued public reports examining the public comment policies of city and town councils and school committee, and the availablity of remote access by the public to governmental meetings post-covid.
$128,716 spent22% of program spendingOrganized and participated in a variety of events during the year to make people aware of their rights and stimulate public discussion on civil liberties issues, including: an annual meeting discussion with attorneys and clients involved in major ACLU cases; a review of enacted state laws in 2023 affecting civil liberties; a review of important civil liberties cases in the 2022-2023 U.S. Supreme Court term; and an event celebrating Banned Books Week.
$163,820 spent28% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $585,072.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.6M to $3.5M (+35%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Steven Brown
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $22k → $59k.
6 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF RHODE ISLAND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF RHODE ISLAND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF RHODE ISLAND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 69% · 2021 74% · 2022 62% · 2023 54% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
60% of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF RHODE ISLAND INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
93% of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF RHODE ISLAND INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Rhode Island, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $349k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF RHODE ISLAND INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Islandinc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF RHODE ISLAND INC?
- AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF RHODE ISLAND INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $374,530 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($246,914). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF RHODE ISLAND INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $374,530 in grants to AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF RHODE ISLAND INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF RHODE ISLAND INC?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $246,914 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF RHODE ISLAND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing