Rhode Island · Nonprofit
RHODE ISLAND COMPUTER MUSEUM INC
RHODE ISLAND COMPUTER MUSEUM INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,866 to it, the largest being THE DASSAULT SYSTEMES US FOUNDATION ($51,572). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $239k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $145k
- Net assets
- $684k
What Rhode Island Computer Museum Inc does
Mission
Our Mission is to inspire young people for the future workforce by saving old and new technology. The Rhode Island Computer Museum RICM is a nonprofit 501c3 organization established in 1999 in Rhode Island to preserve our rich vintage computer history and offer a glimpse of the past. RICMs mission statement is procuring and preservingitems that relate to computer science and its history; disseminating knowledge and encouraging research in computer science by means of visits lectures discussions and publications. Inspiring young people for the future workforce by saving old and new technology.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
EDUCATION - COMPREHENSIVE PROF. DEVELOPMENT AND PROVIDED WORKSHOPS IN RI MA and CT. RICM and BlocksCAD provide STEM education workshops for children ages 8-14. The goal of this component is to teach children the basics of computer assisted design CAD with an easy-to-use blocks-based programming interface. RICM also signed a partnership agreement for Maker Faire. Developed online classes using Outschool as an Internet lifeline for more people than ever. Many older adults who do not have strong technology skills will need assistance to perform necessary activities online. Our goal is to assist older adults who need help with technology.
$0 spentHISTORIC PRESERVATION: Procured and preserved items that relate to computer science and its history was our goal. This included disseminating knowledge research and the restoration of serval rare computers. Restorations included analog computer PDP 9 PDP 11 Intel machine and others. Employees from Dassault Systmes returned in September to volunteer for another day of service below re-organizing and inventorying the contents of several boxes from the RICM text collections. We held several seminars.PDP 11
$0 spentPARTNERSHIPS: In 2025 RICM completed several new partnerships including Rhode Island College New England Tech and Dean College. 2025 was the fifth year of RICMs partnership with The Greenpower F24 program which aspires to advance education in the subjects of engineering and technology for young people ages 9 to 25. Students are introduced to the Greenpower Challenge with activities including the development of a program for their schools participation. We continue to partne with Raspberry Pi of Great Britain.
$0 spentexpenses: Category: Accounting Advertising Office Operations & Legal Fees $3547 Contract Services $53595 ; Equipment Lease or Rental ; Food & Travel $1,188 ; Insurance Property $1802 ; New Technology Equipment $761; Rent Expense $33,011; Repairs & Maintenance $739 ; Workshop supplies and expenses $1862; Stipend $3500
$0 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $593k to $684k (+15%).
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.
58% of RHODE ISLAND COMPUTER MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% 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.
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 broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income fell $30k → $21k.
3 of 9 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.
From the IRS filings of RHODE ISLAND COMPUTER MUSEUM 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
RHODE ISLAND COMPUTER MUSEUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 74%; 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 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 70% · 2023 38% — 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
25% of RHODE ISLAND COMPUTER MUSEUM INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 67% 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
RHODE ISLAND COMPUTER MUSEUM INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k 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.
Against its field
RHODE ISLAND COMPUTER MUSEUM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like RHODE ISLAND COMPUTER MUSEUM INC
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In Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMPUTER MUSEUM INC?
- RHODE ISLAND COMPUTER MUSEUM INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,866 to it, the largest being THE DASSAULT SYSTEMES US FOUNDATION ($51,572). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RHODE ISLAND COMPUTER MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $144,866 in grants to RHODE ISLAND COMPUTER MUSEUM INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RHODE ISLAND COMPUTER MUSEUM INC?
- THE DASSAULT SYSTEMES US FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $51,572 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RHODE ISLAND COMPUTER MUSEUM 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 9 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