Rhode Island · Nonprofit
MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED
MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED (Rhode Island) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,647,804 to it, the largest being VAN BEUREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($2,164,696). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 88
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Martin Luther King Community Center Incorporated does
Mission
The martin luther king community center, inc. (mlkcc) nourishes, educates, and supports newport county residents to improve their economic and social well-being.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Hunger services strives to help residents of newport county move from hunger to health via urgent food services and nutritional counseling and education. July 1, 2025 - june 30, 2026, 6,615 individuals were served through our various hunger relief programs. Our hunger relief services include a food pantry, breakfast program, food 2 friends, produce to the people, lunch distribution 3 days per week, holiday distribution and school pantries. These programs distributed 1,892,199 meals in the form of prepared meals and groceries.
$2,795,044 spent61% of program spendingChildcare services offers a dhs licensed preschool, after school and summer camp program, which are delivered in a curriculum based environment. Our programs provide low income working parents with a safe and nurturing place to care for their children during the workday. Our education programs support the academic and social-emotional success of the children.
$1,334,682 spentof which $344,275 as grants$606,317 earned by the program29% of program spendingCommunity programs offer a variety of programs to newport county residents that educate, empower, raise awareness and address community concerns. These include twice monthly senior lunch & learn, livfit nutrition and fitness classes, community dinners twice monthly and toddler programs. Nutrition education/counseling is offered to all clients free of charge. Our client employment program offers clients the ability to work at a parking lot managed by us to gain work experience and seasonal income.
$449,820 spent$122,775 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,579,546.
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 2019 to 2020, from $3.0M to $6.6M (+116%).
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 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 1% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 4% · 2025 3% · 2026 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (11% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
Heather Hole Strout
Executive director
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $298k → $2.3M.
18 of 88 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 88 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
MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
36% 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 MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 24% · 2019 41% · 2020 16% · 2021 56% · 2022 26% · 2023 36% — 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.
How long its funders stay
54% of MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
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
MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Against its field
MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED has grown faster than three-quarters of the 330 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 330 recreation & sports nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2026
Organizations like MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED
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
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED?
- MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED (Rhode Island) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,647,804 to it, the largest being VAN BEUREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($2,164,696). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 88 organizations giving $10,647,804 in grants to MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED?
- VAN BEUREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,164,696 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 88 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