Rhode Island · Nonprofit
GREATER PROVIDENCE WARWICK CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU
GREATER PROVIDENCE WARWICK CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU (Rhode Island) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,000 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($120,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.6M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $126k
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Greater Providence Warwick Convention and Visitors Bureau does
Mission
To promote the economic growth and development of the greater providence and warwick area by attracting conventions and visitor business through solicitation, servicing, marketing, and the development of convention, visitor and tourist activities in the area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Participation in trade shows and sales initiatives.
Production and placement of advertising in consumer and trade publications, and other digital media.
Maintenance of a comprehensive website that includes information on all aspects of visiting the region.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.7M to $4.6M (+69%).
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 23% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Jeffrey Hirsh
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $30k → $60k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 GREATER PROVIDENCE WARWICK CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU’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
GREATER PROVIDENCE WARWICK CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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 GREATER PROVIDENCE WARWICK CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 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
95% of GREATER PROVIDENCE WARWICK CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU'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 $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Rhode Island funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120k 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.
Organizations like GREATER PROVIDENCE WARWICK CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREATER PROVIDENCE WARWICK CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER PROVIDENCE WARWICK CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU?
- GREATER PROVIDENCE WARWICK CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU (Rhode Island) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,000 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($120,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GREATER PROVIDENCE WARWICK CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $126,000 in grants to GREATER PROVIDENCE WARWICK CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER PROVIDENCE WARWICK CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU?
- THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER PROVIDENCE WARWICK CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU 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 2 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