Rhode Island · Nonprofit
ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF RHODE ISLAND EDUCATION FUND
ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF RHODE ISLAND EDUCATION FUND (Rhode Island) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,040,380 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($515,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $264k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $81k
What Environment Council of Rhode Island Education Fund does
Mission
To sponsor and support efforts of environmental, climate and justice organizations to promote environmental and public health, natural resource protection and community restoration.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Racial Environmental Justice Committee. The REJC works to ensure our members are making the decisions and embody the principle set forward in our Just Providence Framework. To achieve that goal our ways of being need to reflect our principals. Development of the Providence Climate Justice Plan. Development of Rhode Island Green Justice Zones.
$226,077 spentof which $28,052 as grants$236,924 earned by the program71% of program spendingGreen Infrastructure Coalition. Facilitated coalition of organization members of our sister organization the Environment Council of Rhode Island. Its vision is for RI Municipalities to have sustainable storm water management programs which prioritize implementing green infrastructure, which uses vegetation and soil to manage rainwater where it falls.
$48,567 spentof which $35,025 as grants$11,325 earned by the program15% of program spendingSchool Recycling Club. Teaches students how to be stewards of their environment and reduce food waste, keeping it out of the landfill.
$17,076 spentof which $17,076 as grants5% of program spendingClimate behavior program.
$15,000 spentof which $13,950 as grants$15,000 earned by the program5% of program spendingStrategic Planning
$10,500 spent3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $317,220.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $52k to $192k (+268%).
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: 2023 9% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $15k → $276k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF RHODE ISLAND EDUCATION FUND’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
ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF RHODE ISLAND EDUCATION FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
40% 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 ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF RHODE ISLAND EDUCATION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 75% · 2022 57% · 2023 60% — 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.
Where its funders are
ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF RHODE ISLAND EDUCATION FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $367k 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.
Government funding ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF RHODE ISLAND EDUCATION FUND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$40k
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 ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF RHODE ISLAND EDUCATION FUND
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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
- Environment Council of Rhode Island Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF RHODE ISLAND EDUCATION FUND?
- ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF RHODE ISLAND EDUCATION FUND (Rhode Island) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,040,380 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($515,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF RHODE ISLAND EDUCATION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,040,380 in grants to ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF RHODE ISLAND EDUCATION FUND, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF RHODE ISLAND EDUCATION FUND?
- BARR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $515,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF RHODE ISLAND EDUCATION FUND 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 7 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