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NARRATIVE RESEARCH GROUP INC

NARRATIVE RESEARCH GROUP INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $18,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($18,000). 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
$113k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$18k
Net assets
$85k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 51%
01What it does

What Narrative Research Group Inc does

Mission

Examine the roles of narrative

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Conducted a workshop and an assessment

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

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 ($5k) Expenses 100 ($4k) Net assets 100 ($97k)2018 Revenue 390 ($21k) Expenses 491 ($19k) Net assets 102 ($99k)2019 Revenue 211 ($11k) Expenses 214 ($8k) Net assets 105 ($102k)2020 Revenue 658 ($35k) Expenses 1168 ($45k) Net assets 95 ($92k)2021 Revenue 935 ($50k) Expenses 2098 ($80k) Net assets 64 ($62k)2022 Revenue 892 ($47k) Expenses 1703 ($65k) Net assets 45 ($44k)2023 Revenue 1314 ($70k) Expenses 1177 ($45k) Net assets 71 ($69k)2024 Revenue 1798 ($96k) Expenses 1084 ($41k) Net assets 127 ($123k)2025 Revenue 2118 ($113k) Expenses 3931 ($150k) Net assets 88 ($85k)
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Revenue (2118)Expenses (3931)Net assets (88)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 2023 to 2024, from $69k to $123k (+79%).

$97k
$99k
$102k
$92k
$62k
$44k
$69k
$123k
$85k
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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
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2021
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

73% of NARRATIVE RESEARCH GROUP INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (76% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1k
’17
$2k
’18
$3k
’19
−$10k
’20
−$31k
’21
−$18k
’22
$25k
’23
$54k
’24
−$38k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
total
funders
1

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 NARRATIVE RESEARCH GROUP INC’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 NARRATIVE RESEARCH GROUP INC'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. $18k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NARRATIVE RESEARCH GROUP INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 169 social science nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−33% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)46% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 169 social science nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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In Rhode Island

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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 NARRATIVE RESEARCH GROUP INC?
NARRATIVE RESEARCH GROUP INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $18,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($18,000). 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 NARRATIVE RESEARCH GROUP INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $18,000 in grants to NARRATIVE RESEARCH GROUP INC.
Who is the largest funder of NARRATIVE RESEARCH GROUP INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $18,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NARRATIVE RESEARCH GROUP INC 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