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NEWPORT READING ROOM

NEWPORT READING ROOM (Rhode Island) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,941 to it, the largest being 29 BELLEVUE AVENUE FOUNDATION INC ($11,941). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.7M
Revenue FY2025
3
Funders on record
$13k
Grants received
$3.4M
Net assets
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($666k) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 60 ($744k) Expenses 94 ($623k) Net assets 112 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 61 ($764k) Expenses 95 ($631k) Net assets 124 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 81 ($1.0M) Expenses 110 ($732k) Net assets 148 ($2.1M)2022 Revenue 82 ($1.0M) Expenses 122 ($813k) Net assets 157 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 98 ($1.2M) Expenses 143 ($953k) Net assets 180 ($2.5M)2024 Revenue 101 ($1.3M) Expenses 155 ($1.0M) Net assets 200 ($2.8M)2025 Revenue 135 ($1.7M) Expenses 171 ($1.1M) Net assets 242 ($3.4M)
'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (135)Expenses (171)Net assets (242)

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$576k
18
$120k
19
$133k
20
$277k
21
$206k
22
$261k
23
$220k
24
$534k
25
3.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $500.

From the IRS filings of NEWPORT READING ROOM’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

NEWPORT READING ROOM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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

92% 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 NEWPORT READING ROOM.

92%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2022 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

92% of NEWPORT READING ROOM's grant income comes from Rhode Island funders.

MA
RI
DC

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

17
19
22
Rhode Island out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like NEWPORT READING ROOM

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Rhode Island

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

RI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEWPORT READING ROOM: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds NEWPORT READING ROOM?
NEWPORT READING ROOM (Rhode Island) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,941 to it, the largest being 29 BELLEVUE AVENUE FOUNDATION INC ($11,941). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NEWPORT READING ROOM have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $12,941 in grants to NEWPORT READING ROOM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NEWPORT READING ROOM?
29 BELLEVUE AVENUE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,941 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NEWPORT READING ROOM 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing