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Providence CityArts for Youth Inc

Providence CityArts for Youth Inc (Rhode Island) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $348,597 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC ($120,050). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$17k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$349k
Net assets
$97k
6/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 46%
01What it does

What Providence CityArts for Youth Inc does

Mission

Provide an environment that encourages the exploration and development of artistic talents of youth in the multi-cultural neighborhoods of Providence, Rhode Island.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, the organization maintained limited programmatic activity while advancing its mission through community engagement and organizational planning. Community Conversations offered residents, artists, and partners opportunities to share perspectives, identify community needs, and strengthen relationships that will inform future programming. The organization also focused on sustaining partnerships, strategic planning, and building organizational capacity to support future mission-driven initiatives.

    $9,665 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $9,665.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($397k) Expenses 100 ($573k) Net assets 100 ($801k)2018 Revenue 85 ($338k) Expenses 71 ($406k) Net assets 92 ($735k)2019 Revenue 43 ($171k) Expenses 32 ($181k) Net assets 90 ($724k)2020 Revenue 36 ($144k) Expenses 36 ($206k) Net assets 81 ($647k)2021 Revenue 43 ($169k) Expenses 32 ($181k) Net assets 80 ($644k)2022 Revenue 41 ($161k) Expenses 29 ($166k) Net assets 80 ($642k)2023 Revenue 12 ($47k) Expenses 11 ($61k) Net assets 77 ($620k)2024 Revenue 6 ($24k) Expenses 3 ($16k) Net assets 78 ($627k)2025 Revenue 4 ($17k) Expenses 95 ($547k) Net assets 12 ($97k)
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Revenue (4)Expenses (95)Net assets (12)Peer revenue range

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 $627k to $97k (−84%).

$818k
$739k
$730k
$679k
$682k
$643k
$628k
$627k
$97k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 54% · 2018 53% · 2019 30% · 2020 37% · 2021 40% · 2022 35% · 2023 65% · 2024 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

4% of Providence CityArts for Youth Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$177k
’17
−$68k
’18
−$10k
’19
−$62k
’20
−$13k
’21
−$5k
’22
−$14k
’23
$8k
’24
−$530k
’25
33
months of
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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.

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Listed139967788
Joined·+2+1+1+2+0+2+2
No longer listed·6141012
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $27k → $30.

4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 CityArts for Youth Inc’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 CityArts for Youth Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

75% 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 CityArts for Youth Inc.

34%
largest funder
71%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 92% · 2019 63% · 2020 49% · 2021 76% · 2022 87% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

20% of Providence CityArts for Youth Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

53% of Providence CityArts for Youth Inc'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 $163k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from funders outside Rhode Island, across 7 states.

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

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Rhode Island out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Providence CityArts for Youth Inc's revenue fell 96% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−3171% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−33% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Providence CityArts for Youth Inc?
Providence CityArts for Youth Inc (Rhode Island) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $348,597 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC ($120,050). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Providence CityArts for Youth Inc have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $348,597 in grants to Providence CityArts for Youth Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Providence CityArts for Youth Inc?
UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC is the largest funder on record, with $120,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Providence CityArts for Youth Inc 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 15 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