Rhode Island · Nonprofit
PROVIDENCE ART CLUB
PROVIDENCE ART CLUB (Rhode Island) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $354,391 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($173,150). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $354k
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What Providence Art Club does
Mission
To provide active programs in the visual arts and provide education for the promotion of art culture
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Art exhibitions: maintain two art galleries for art exhibitions. Artist members and non-members participate in 30 to 40 exhibits per year for the club's membership and general public to enjoyart classes: conduct art classes for club members in the visual arts to include sketching, painting and drawing for approximately 30 per week.
$331,727 spent$315,756 earned by the program32% of program spendingCafe and dining facilities to accomodate employees and members
$796,637 earned by the programArt studios for artist and scholarship and awards
$93,377 earned by the programHouse and property activities
$691,321 spent68% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,023,048.
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 $6.5M to $7.5M (+14%).
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: 2021 16% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of PROVIDENCE ART CLUB’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $40k → $46k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 PROVIDENCE ART CLUB’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
PROVIDENCE ART CLUB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 PROVIDENCE ART CLUB.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 65% · 2021 56% · 2022 70% · 2023 64% — 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
68% of PROVIDENCE ART CLUB'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. Of the $114k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Rhode Island funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $240k 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
PROVIDENCE ART CLUB's revenue grew 15% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PROVIDENCE ART CLUB
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
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROVIDENCE ART CLUB: 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 PROVIDENCE ART CLUB?
- PROVIDENCE ART CLUB (Rhode Island) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $354,391 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($173,150). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PROVIDENCE ART CLUB have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $354,391 in grants to PROVIDENCE ART CLUB, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROVIDENCE ART CLUB?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $173,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROVIDENCE ART CLUB 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 7 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