Rhode Island · Nonprofit
Common Fence Pt Improvement Association
Common Fence Pt Improvement Association (Rhode Island) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,895 to it, the largest being SPIER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($12,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Common Fence Pt Improvement Association is better cushioned than half of the 3,690 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,690 housing & shelter nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trustshared funderslocal
- Mary Heath Foundationportfolio match
- Community Capital Fundportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 18% · 2022 5% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of Common Fence Pt Improvement Association’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (53% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $118.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 Common Fence Pt Improvement Association’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
Common Fence Pt Improvement Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 Common Fence Pt Improvement Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 72% · 2022 76% · 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
58% of Common Fence Pt Improvement Association'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 $13k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Rhode Island, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trustshared funderslocalCA · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · funds 47 organizations near you
- Mary Heath Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Capital Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Polk County Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ndc Housing & Economic Development Corporation - Group Returnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Skatepark Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Monmouth County Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Federal of Northern Michigan Legacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- East Central Regional Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Barrow Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Common Fence Pt Improvement Association receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $375k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$375k
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 Common Fence Pt Improvement Association
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Common Fence Pt Improvement Association: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Common Fence Pt Improvement Association?
- Common Fence Pt Improvement Association (Rhode Island) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,895 to it, the largest being SPIER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($12,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Common Fence Pt Improvement Association have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $31,895 in grants to Common Fence Pt Improvement Association, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Common Fence Pt Improvement Association?
- SPIER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Common Fence Pt Improvement Association 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing