Rhode Island · Nonprofit
Providence Drum Troupe
Providence Drum Troupe (Rhode Island) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being RALPH R PAPITTO & BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $80k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $22k
What Providence Drum Troupe does
Mission
1. The Providence Drum Troupe is a dynamic band of musicians and performers who demonstrate that living in harmony is not an antiquated notion! Connecting creative forces for the greater good, PDT encourages children and children at heart to participate, dance and celebrate being alive in this truly wondrous world!
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Sunset Celebrations - Free music and entertainment every Tuesday at the Michael Van Leesten Bridge. The Sunset Celebrations have become a staple of Providence summer entertainment. Sound Sessions - Monthly events held at the Clubhouse Gallery that showcase local musicians and draw in audiences from around Rhode Island and beyond. City Activations - The Troupe worked with Providence Tourism Council to provide free entertainment, activate underused spaces, and highlight local businesses with our pop-up appearances at multiple events around Washington Square, Biltmore Park, and our Nightlife tours.
$53,916 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $53,916.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $10k to $22k (+127%).
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.
36% of Providence Drum Troupe’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Josh Short
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Providence Drum Troupe’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
100% of Providence Drum Troupe's grant income comes from Rhode Island funders.
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
Providence Drum Troupe has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Providence Drum Troupe
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.
Public support
60%
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 Drum Troupe: 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 Drum Troupe?
- Providence Drum Troupe (Rhode Island) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being RALPH R PAPITTO & BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Providence Drum Troupe have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to Providence Drum Troupe.
- Who is the largest funder of Providence Drum Troupe?
- RALPH R PAPITTO & BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Providence Drum Troupe 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 2023–2025), 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