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HOPE & MAIN

HOPE & MAIN (Rhode Island) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,993,264 to it, the largest being RALPH R PAPITTO & BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,779,284). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.9M
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$3.0M
Net assets
$-456279
12/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%
01What it does

What Hope & Main does

Mission

To help local entrepreneurs jump-start early-stage food companies and food related businesses by providing low cost, low risk access to shared-use commercial kitchens and other industry-specific technical resources.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization's focus is on supporting and advancing food entrepreneurs through business development resources, commercial kitchen access, education, mentorship, and community partnerships designed to strengthen local food systems. The program is intended to promote equitable economic opportunity by helping emerging food businesses launch, grow, and sustain operations while increasing access to locally produced food and fostering community economic development. The organization also serves as an advocate and resource hub for small food business owners by providing training, networking opportunities, and operational support to entrepreneurs in the food industry.

    $2,672,744 spentof which $692,274 as grants$1,005,273 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,672,744.

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 ($917k) Expenses 100 ($873k)2018 Revenue 83 ($763k) Expenses 102 ($889k)2019 Revenue 84 ($774k) Expenses 107 ($935k)2020 Revenue 105 ($958k) Expenses 119 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 110 ($1.0M) Expenses 128 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 132 ($1.2M) Expenses 145 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 180 ($1.7M) Expenses 185 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 203 ($1.9M) Expenses 217 ($1.9M)2025 Revenue 312 ($2.9M) Expenses 351 ($3.1M)
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Revenue (312)Expenses (351)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 2024 to 2025, from $2.5M to $3.8M (+53%).

$2.8M
$2.7M
$2.6M
$2.6M
$2.4M
$2.5M
$2.5M
$2.5M
$3.8M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

65% of HOPE & MAIN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,444 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$44k
’17
−$126k
’18
−$161k
’19
−$79k
’20
−$113k
’21
−$59k
’22
$42k
’23
−$33k
’24
−$200k
’25
4.4
months of
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

Luca Carnevale

Executive director

Board chair

Lisa Raiola Mph

President & chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed141414171716151112
Joined·+0+0+5+0+0+6+0+4
No longer listed·00201743
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $12k → $992k.

6 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 HOPE & MAIN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 28 funders by total. 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

HOPE & MAIN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

28% 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 HOPE & MAIN.

59%
largest funder
81%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2019 84% · 2020 60% · 2021 84% · 2022 67% · 2023 84% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

How long its funders stay

40% of HOPE & MAIN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

89% of HOPE & MAIN's grant income comes from Rhode Island funders.

ME
NY
MA
OR
RI
MO

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

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’23
Rhode Island out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $759k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

HOPE & MAIN has grown faster than half of the 2,299 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding HOPE & MAIN receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.4M on record.

Federal$3.4M
grants $3.4Mcontracts $0
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18
22
23
24
Top agencies
  • Small Business Administration$1.9M
  • Department of Agriculture$1.6M

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 HOPE & MAIN

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

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 10%Fundraising 3%

Governance

10
board members
90%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds HOPE & MAIN?
HOPE & MAIN (Rhode Island) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,993,264 to it, the largest being RALPH R PAPITTO & BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,779,284). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HOPE & MAIN have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $2,993,264 in grants to HOPE & MAIN, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOPE & MAIN?
RALPH R PAPITTO & BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,779,284 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOPE & MAIN 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 28 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing