Rhode Island · Nonprofit
PARTNERSHIP FOR PROVIDENCE PARKS
PARTNERSHIP FOR PROVIDENCE PARKS (Rhode Island) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $591,932 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($143,098). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $318k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $592k
- Net assets
- $192k
What Partnership for Providence Parks does
Mission
To empower the people of Providence to engage with their public spaces leverage partnerships and co-create initiatives that enhance these spaces and improve collective well being. P3 is a nonprofit 501c3 dedicated to working with the people of Providence and city departments to help activate and revitalize public spaces including parks recreation centers and streetscapes.P3 builds strengthens and maintains relationships with city departments and community organizations. We draw on our dynamic network of partners to provide tailored support and resources for our diverse Friend and Member groups through programs and events. These initiatives improve access and help transform neighborhood parks recreation centers and streetscapes into thriving spaces that reflect the needs and character of their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In the fiscal year 2025 our nonprofits fiscal sponsorship program effectively managed expenditures for a diverse range of community projects. These initiatives included Adrian Hall Way $4,784 Candy Crawl $1,500 Cabral Park $5665 Haus of Glitter $63,826 Jacqueline Clements Park $4,900 North Burial Ground $625 Peace and Plenty Park $3,713 Pearl Street Park $860,Project 401 $10,555 Washington Park $181 and Waterman Street Dog Park $8,500.
$103,389 spent25% of program spendingWe continue to support our own programs through our annual 401gives campaign grants and donations. P3 programs include ArtCarts! $1853 which provides pop up family friendly art activities in Providence Blender Bike Madness $2,020 offering a fun way to make smoothie Earth Savers $4,585 providing support for greenspace cleanups garden club activities and community gardens and Playful Providence $8107 which provides games face painting staff and activities at community events. We had two new programs this year: Senior Walking Van $3,668 which provided fun and fitness for seniors and the Little Free Food Pantry $9,768 in the Fox Point area of Providence. We worked with Program Leaders $10,207 to execute these programs and to support our public private partnership with the City of Providence.
$40,208 spent10% of program spendingOur organization is engaged in a valuable public private partnership with the City of Providence providing crucial program support to: A. Parks Department Programs: Total Expenses $66,974: 1. The Providence Parks Urban Wildlife Refuge initiative. This initiative is focused on immersing children and families in nature through outdoor learning experiences in city parks and greenspaces $63,843. 2.The Parks Evergreen fund offers mini-grants and funding to local community and volunteer groups for outdoor improvement projects in community spaces like parks schools and recreation centers $2,307. 3. The Summer Lunches Activities program provides playful and creative activities during lunch sessions in city park $824. B. Recreation Department Programs: Total Expenses $110,083: 1. Year-Round Youth Programs including garden club building club craft club baking club field trips girls club and special events tailored to center and department requests. The initiative utilizes the services of independent contractors to design and plan enrichment activities attend and staff programs and events acquire materials and supplies and work directly with Rec staff and Directors $67,674. 2. The Angel…
$258,620 spentof which $2,307 as grants63% of program spendingGeneral Operating Expenses including Dues and Subscriptions $545 Insurance $2443 Supplies $2,405 Storage Space Rental $3,270 and promotional materials $762
$9,425 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $411,642.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $287k to $192k (−33%).
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: 2020 29% · 2021 31% · 2022 16% · 2023 4% · 2024 21% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of PARTNERSHIP FOR PROVIDENCE PARKS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Helene Miller
Executive Director
Board chair
Kathy Drohan
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $30k → $120k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR PROVIDENCE PARKS’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
PARTNERSHIP FOR PROVIDENCE PARKS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
74% 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR PROVIDENCE PARKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 85% · 2019 86% · 2020 57% · 2021 33% · 2022 43% · 2023 44% — diversifying over time.
“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
25% of PARTNERSHIP FOR PROVIDENCE PARKS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
PARTNERSHIP FOR PROVIDENCE PARKS draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $91k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
PARTNERSHIP FOR PROVIDENCE PARKS is better cushioned than half of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding PARTNERSHIP FOR PROVIDENCE PARKS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $338k on record.
- Department of the Interior$338k
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 PARTNERSHIP FOR PROVIDENCE PARKS
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARTNERSHIP FOR PROVIDENCE PARKS: 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR PROVIDENCE PARKS?
- PARTNERSHIP FOR PROVIDENCE PARKS (Rhode Island) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $591,932 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($143,098). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARTNERSHIP FOR PROVIDENCE PARKS have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $591,932 in grants to PARTNERSHIP FOR PROVIDENCE PARKS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARTNERSHIP FOR PROVIDENCE PARKS?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $143,098 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARTNERSHIP FOR PROVIDENCE PARKS 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 19 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