Rhode Island · Nonprofit
PONAGANSETT EDUCATION FOUNDATION
PONAGANSETT EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Rhode Island) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $440,000 to it, the largest being BATTLE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($440,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $440k
- Net assets
- $436k
What Ponagansett Education Foundation does
Mission
The Foundation does 2 things: Award Scholarships to students attending college, Awarg grants to fund projects managed by Ponaganset High andMiddle school teachers for student benefits. These grants are to fund projects that normally would not fund through annual school budgets
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Scholarships awarded to high school seniors who will be attending college and scholarships to students who are currently attending college. Our scholarships are for 4 years at $4,000 per year. In 2023 we also awarded one scholarship at $500 per year for the first 2 years and $2,000 per year for the last 2 years. In 2025 we awarded a trade scholarship for a total one time award of $5,000. The 2025 breakdown for scholarship money paid as follows: 10 students for 2 semesters ($4K) $40,000; 1 student for 3 semesters ($6K) $6,000; 6 students for 1 semester($2K) $12,000; 1 student for 2 semesters(250.00)$500 and 1 semester ($1,000): 1 Student for a trade scholarship $5,000.
$12,973 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,973.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $465k to $573k (+23%).
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.
100% of PONAGANSETT EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $50k → $60k.
From the IRS filings of PONAGANSETT EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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
PONAGANSETT EDUCATION FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
PONAGANSETT EDUCATION FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PONAGANSETT EDUCATION 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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PONAGANSETT EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- PONAGANSETT EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Rhode Island) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $440,000 to it, the largest being BATTLE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($440,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PONAGANSETT EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $440,000 in grants to PONAGANSETT EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PONAGANSETT EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- BATTLE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $440,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PONAGANSETT EDUCATION 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.
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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 2021–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing