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Childhood Lead Action Project

Childhood Lead Action Project (Rhode Island) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $316,457 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC ($225,310). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$435k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$316k
Net assets
$201k
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What Childhood Lead Action Project does

Mission

To educate the public on the dangers of lead poisoning.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provided lead safety training and technical assistance to approx. 460 homeowners, home renovation specialists, landlords, and others in person and via online instruction

    $26,303 spent$62,034 earned by the program
    9% of program spending
  2. Conducted community outreach and workshops for parents, tenants and others about lead-safe work practices, tenants' rights and other tips for keeping children safe from lead hazards. Venues and activities included parent group presentations, 1:1 consultations via ns, 1:1 consultations via phone, door to door flyer distribution, and educational postcard mailings, with an estimated 3369 people engaged.

    $183,433 spent
    59% of program spending
  3. Convened local committees comprising community members and other stakeholders in 4 cities to provide feedback and direction for local lead poisoning prevention education and advocacy initiatives.

    $98,771 spent
    32% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $308,507.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($207k) Expenses 100 ($243k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2018 Revenue 118 ($246k) Expenses 69 ($168k) Net assets 1267 ($85k)2019 Revenue 99 ($206k) Expenses 72 ($176k) Net assets 1717 ($115k)2020 Revenue 82 ($170k) Expenses 82 ($199k) Net assets 1279 ($86k)2021 Revenue 163 ($338k) Expenses 122 ($297k) Net assets 1891 ($126k)2022 Revenue 198 ($410k) Expenses 136 ($332k) Net assets 3057 ($204k)2023 Revenue 155 ($322k) Expenses 138 ($335k) Net assets 2856 ($191k)2024 Revenue 190 ($394k) Expenses 178 ($432k) Net assets 2291 ($153k)2025 Revenue 210 ($435k) Expenses 159 ($386k) Net assets 3012 ($201k)
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Revenue (210)Expenses (159)Net assets (3012)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $33k to $102k (+208%).

$33k
$102k
$136k
$124k
$178k
$224k
$217k
$190k
$241k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 22% · 2018 29% · 2019 56% · 2020 48% · 2021 73% · 2022 76% · 2023 74% · 2024 81% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

85% of Childhood Lead Action Project’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$36k
’17
$78k
’18
$30k
’19
−$29k
’20
$41k
’21
$78k
’22
−$13k
’23
−$38k
’24
$48k
’25
6.4
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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

Laura Brion

Executive Director

Board chair

Jeannine Casselman

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+3+0+0+0+3+3+1+2
No longer listed·50110211
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $500 → $40k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 Childhood Lead Action Project’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

Childhood Lead Action Project leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 Childhood Lead Action Project.

71%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 71% · 2022 94% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

71% of Childhood Lead Action Project'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 $91k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Rhode Island, across 3 states.

NY
MA
RI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Rhode Island out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $225k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Childhood Lead Action Project runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve6.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding Childhood Lead Action Project receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.

Federal$1.4M
grants $1.4Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Environmental Protection Agency$830k
  • Department of Health and Human Services$600k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Childhood Lead Action Project

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 17%Fundraising 3%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Childhood Lead Action Project?
Childhood Lead Action Project (Rhode Island) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $316,457 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC ($225,310). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Childhood Lead Action Project have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $316,457 in grants to Childhood Lead Action Project, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Childhood Lead Action Project?
UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC is the largest funder on record, with $225,310 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Childhood Lead Action Project 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 6 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