Rhode Island · Nonprofit
PROVIDENCE PROMISE
PROVIDENCE PROMISE (Rhode Island) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,316,914 to it, the largest being RALPH R PAPITTO AND BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($540,500). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PROVIDENCE PROMISE has grown faster than half of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Mary D Chafee Fund Co Mark Chafeelocalportfolio match
- Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violenceshared funderslocal
- Citizens Community Foundationshared funderslocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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 6% · 2022 0% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of PROVIDENCE PROMISE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $15k → $430k.
4 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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: $249k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Rhode Island Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money PROVIDENCE PROMISE raised.
From the IRS filings of PROVIDENCE PROMISE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
PROVIDENCE PROMISE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 58% · 2019 77% · 2020 33% · 2021 76% · 2022 29% · 2023 55% — 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
57% of PROVIDENCE PROMISE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
81% of PROVIDENCE PROMISE'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. $229k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 40 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Mary D Chafee Fund Co Mark Chafeelocalportfolio matchRI · funds 40 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violenceshared funderslocalRI · backs 22 organizations that share your funders · funds 24 organizations near you
- Citizens Community Foundationshared funderslocalRI · backs 28 organizations that share your funders · funds 26 organizations near you
- The Murray Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Childrens Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National College Attainment Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edward J & Virginia M Routhier Foundationshared fundersRI · backs 29 organizations that share your funders
- Wellington Management Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Educational Credit Management Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Olneyville Housing Corporationshared funderslocalRI · backs 23 organizations that share your funders · funds 33 organizations near you
- Billy Andrade-Brad Faxon Charities for Children Incshared funderslocalMA · backs 57 organizations that share your funders · funds 52 organizations near you
- Rhode Island Community Food Bank Associationshared funderslocalRI · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · funds 60 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like PROVIDENCE PROMISE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Lisco Development Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROVIDENCE PROMISE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PROMISE?
- PROVIDENCE PROMISE (Rhode Island) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,316,914 to it, the largest being RALPH R PAPITTO AND BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($540,500). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROVIDENCE PROMISE have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $1,316,914 in grants to PROVIDENCE PROMISE, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROVIDENCE PROMISE?
- RALPH R PAPITTO AND BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $540,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROVIDENCE PROMISE 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 40funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing