Rhode Island · Nonprofit
PAWTUCKET FOUNDATION
PAWTUCKET FOUNDATION (Rhode Island) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $515,552 to it, the largest being SIMON W WARDWELL FOUNDATION ($200,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $192k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $516k
- Net assets
- $301k
What Pawtucket Foundation does
Mission
The foundation was created for the specific purpose of improving the lives of the residents of pawtucket, ri. Many programs and projects will also by extension benefiting residents of the neighboring city of central falls, ri. The foundation will create, develop and implement programs and resources designed to mobilize the private sector in economic development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The foundation creates, develops and implements programs and resources designed to mobilize the private and non-profit sector along with local government in economic development.
The foundation sponsored an annual dinner to recognize outstanding individual(s) who have advanced the ideals of civic entrepreneurship advocated and advanced by the foundation
Hosted pawtucket proud day, an annual corporate volunteer outing. 43 businesses contributed volunteers and/or in-kind donations to landscape, clean up or paint sven dey sites around pawtucket and central falls.
Miscellaneous propgrams designed to enhance the beauty and civic pride of the local area.
$176,177 spent100% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $176,177.
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 2020 to 2021, from $244k to $431k (+76%).
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: 2018 29% · 2019 23% · 2021 56% · 2022 45% · 2023 44% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of PAWTUCKET FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Daniel J Sullivan Jr
Co-chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $44k → $84k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $10k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Rhode Island Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money PAWTUCKET FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of PAWTUCKET FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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
PAWTUCKET FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 PAWTUCKET FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 63% · 2019 46% · 2020 73% · 2021 73% · 2022 42% · 2023 60% — 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
33% of PAWTUCKET FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 90% 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
67% of PAWTUCKET FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Rhode Island funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52 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.
Against its field
PAWTUCKET FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PAWTUCKET FOUNDATION
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PAWTUCKET FOUNDATION?
- PAWTUCKET FOUNDATION (Rhode Island) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $515,552 to it, the largest being SIMON W WARDWELL FOUNDATION ($200,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PAWTUCKET FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $515,552 in grants to PAWTUCKET FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAWTUCKET FOUNDATION?
- SIMON W WARDWELL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAWTUCKET FOUNDATION 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 10 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