Rhode Island · Nonprofit
DISABILITY RIGHTS RHODE ISLAND
DISABILITY RIGHTS RHODE ISLAND (Rhode Island) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being TIAA CHARITABLE INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $203k
What Disability Rights Rhode Island does
Mission
To assist rhode islanders with differing abilities in their efforts to achieve full inclusion in society and to exercise their civil and human rights through the provision of legal advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Protection and advocacy for individuals with mental illness program provides advocacy to remedy abuse or neglect of individuals with mental illness who are residents of certain care and treatment facilities (e.g., nursing facilities, community hospitals, assisted living facilities, and mental health facilities for children). In addition, the program provides provide legal assistance to individuals with mental illness residing in the community.
$321,325 spent25% of program spendingProtection and advocacy for individuals with developmental disabilities provides advocacy to remedy abuse or neglect of individuals with developmental disabilities and assistance accessing benefits and services (e.g., special education, day programs, and residential services).
$340,243 spent27% of program spendingProtection and advocacy for individual rights program provides advocacy to individuals with disabilities who are not eligible for other advocacy programs (e.g., individuals disabled after the age of 22) and who require legal assistance to overcome discrimination or barriers to living independently. Assistance with accessing benefits and services, with emphasis on enforcement of rights under fair housing and antidiscrimination laws, is also provided.
$108,848 spent9% of program spendingClient assistance program provides advocacy to individuals with disabilities applying for or receiving services from vocational rehabilitation, independent living, and services for the blind and visually impaired. We also can advocate for the employment rights (title I of the americans with disabilities act) of vocational rehabilitation clients. The federal administering agency is the u.s. Department of education, office of special education and rehabilitative services, rehabilitative services administration.assistive technology program provides advocacy to individuals with disabilities seeking access to assistive technology devices and services, with emphasis on obtaining funding from vocational rehabilitation, special education, and medicare / medicaid.protection and advocacy for beneficiaries of social security program provides advocacy to individuals receiving social security benefits who are seeking to secure, maintain, or regain employment, with emphasis on education and training about work incentives and the benefits available to beneficiaries who obtain employment.
$495,765 spent39% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,266,181.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $471k to $798k (+70%).
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: 2017 99% · 2018 98% · 2019 97% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of DISABILITY RIGHTS RHODE ISLAND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Morna Murray
Executive director
Board chair
Sonja Deyoe
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 DISABILITY RIGHTS RHODE ISLAND’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.
Where its funders are
100% of DISABILITY RIGHTS RHODE ISLAND'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
DISABILITY RIGHTS RHODE ISLAND's revenue grew 23% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DISABILITY RIGHTS RHODE ISLAND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$10.6M
- Department of Education$3.0M
- Social Security Administration$1.8M
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 DISABILITY RIGHTS RHODE ISLAND
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 DISABILITY RIGHTS RHODE ISLAND?
- DISABILITY RIGHTS RHODE ISLAND (Rhode Island) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being TIAA CHARITABLE INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DISABILITY RIGHTS RHODE ISLAND have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to DISABILITY RIGHTS RHODE ISLAND.
- Who is the largest funder of DISABILITY RIGHTS RHODE ISLAND?
- TIAA CHARITABLE INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISABILITY RIGHTS RHODE ISLAND 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 1 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