Rhode Island · Nonprofit
RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (Rhode Island) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,105 to it, the largest being RALPH R PAPITTO & BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($105,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $118k
- Net assets
- $286k
What Rhode Island College Alumni Association does
Mission
The Rhode Island College Alumni Association's mission is to promote lifelong relationships between current and future alumni of rhode island college and to strengthen communication and engagement between alumni and the college. To create and nurture opportunities for personal and financial investment into rhode island college's future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The alumni awards are presented annually to graduates and community leaders who bring honor upon themselves and the college. Their personal and professional achievements and service aid the community, rhode island college and/or the alumni association.
$59,072 spent82% of program spendingFinancial support to rhode island college including need-based scholarships to students. Approximately 100 students received financial assistance.
$13,221 spentof which $13,221 as grants18% of program spendingHomecoming family weekend event sponsored by the alumni association on behalf of the college. Activities for families with children of all ages were provided.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $72,293.
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 2022 to 2023, from $638k to $456k (−29%).
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.
98% of RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 9 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
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $375 → $525.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION’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 COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
100% of RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION'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. $12k 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 COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
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
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: 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 COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
- RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (Rhode Island) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,105 to it, the largest being RALPH R PAPITTO & BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($105,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $118,105 in grants to RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
- RALPH R PAPITTO & BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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