Rhode Island · Nonprofit
Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence
Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence (Rhode Island) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,700 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $112k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $22k
What Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence does
Mission
The Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence (RICAGV) is a coalition of organizations and activists who confront gun violence as an urgent public health issue. The RICAGV utilizes the collective power of its membership and grassroots organizing methods to advance programs and policies that will reduce gun violence, resulting in safer, healthier Rhode Island communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2024, RICAGV continued to advocate for common sense gun violence prevention efforts with a focus on passing safe storage and assault weapons ban legislation. Through the organization's efforts and in collaboration with coalition partners, the safe storage bill was passed into law. Critical partners included National Education Association Rhode Island, RI AFL-CIO, Giffords Law Center, Everytown for Gun Safety, Moms Demand Action, the Nonviolence Institute, RI Kids Count, and RI Coalition Against Domestic Violence. During this year, we also participated in the RI Values Project, endorsing legislative candidates to advance gun safety. Efforts included mailers and digital communications.
$110,543 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $110,543.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $63k to $40k (−38%).
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.
60% of Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Melissa Carden
Executive Director
Board chair
Ariana Wohl
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $100 → $15k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence’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
Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
64% 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 Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
64% of Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence'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 $6k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Rhode Island funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $16k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence: 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 Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence?
- Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence (Rhode Island) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,700 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $15,700 in grants to Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence?
- THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 4 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