Rhode Island · Nonprofit
RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL
RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL (Rhode Island) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,624,476 to it, the largest being BROWN UNIVERSITY ($20,472,325). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5B
- Funders on record
- 121
- Grants received
- $69M
- Net assets
- $1.2B
What Rhode Island Hospital does
Mission
As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Patient care: rih is the state's largest hospital, and its only level I trauma center and verified burn center. It provides a comprehensive range of diagnostic and therapeutic health care services to inpatients and outpatients. Rih has particular expertise in cancer, cardiology, diabetes, emergency medicine, neurosciences, orthopedics, and more. Hasbro children's hospital (hch), rih's pediatric division, is the region's premier provider of pediatric clinical care. Hch offers a broad spectrum of both routine care and specialty programs not available elsewhere and has the only pediatric emergency department, level I trauma center, pediatric critical care teams, and 24-hour ambulance in the region. Rih is a 719-bed, nonprofit general acute care teaching hospital with university affiliation, the largest hospital in the state of rhode island (the state) providing a comprehensive range of diagnostic and therapeutic services to patients. (continued on schedule o)
$1,878,779,609 spent$2,269,413,839 earned by the program91% of program spendingMedical education: rih provides the setting for and substantially supports medical education in various clinical training and nursing programs. Rih is designated as the principal teaching hospital of the warren alpert medical school of brown university. The total cost of direct medical education provided by rih exceeded the reimbursement received from third-party payors by $118.1 million in fiscal year 2025. Under an affiliation agreement with the warren alpert medical school of brown university (brown), rih participates jointly in various clinical training programs and research activities. In 2010, brown named rih its principal teaching hospital. (continued on schedule o)
$141,253,205 spentof which $1,417,981 as grants$23,152,878 earned by the program7% of program spendingResearch: rih conducts extensive medical research and is in the forefront of biomedical health care delivery research and among the leaders nationally in the national institutes of health programs. Rih also sponsors a significant level of research activities. Federal support accounts for approximately 57% of all externally funded research at brown health. Researchers focus on basic research projects and clinical trials which investigate prevention and treatment of hiv/aids, obesity, cancer, diabetes, cardiac disease, neurological problems, orthopedic advancements, mental health concerns, and brain science. Included in the totals are $2.6 million of research grants from for-profit organizations that are not reported in schedule h. (continued on schedule o)
$55,055,093 spent$88,706,061 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,075,087,907.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.5B to $1.8B (+26%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 5% · 2021 6% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
John Fernandez
President & CEO
Board chair
Lawrence A Aubin Sr
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $8.7M.
11 of 121 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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: $112M from 21 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rhode Island Hospital Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL raised.
From the IRS filings of RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 121 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
RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 56%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 HOSPITAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 28% · 2019 33% · 2020 25% · 2021 19% · 2022 30% · 2023 36% — growing more concentrated.
“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
48% of RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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 HOSPITAL draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 HOSPITAL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $499.2M on record — $397.9M federal, $101.3M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$388.4M
- Department of Defense$6.8M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$867k
- National Science Foundation$803k
- Department of Justice$600k
- Corporation for National and Community Service$344k
- MA$101.3M
- NJ$59k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL
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.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 43 related entities
- Brown University Health Pharmacy LLC · disregarded
- Radiosurgery Center of Rhode Island LLC · disregarded
- Alc Dba Hsr · exempt
- Bayberry Courts Inc · exempt
- Bradley Hospital Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL?
- RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL (Rhode Island) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,624,476 to it, the largest being BROWN UNIVERSITY ($20,472,325). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL have?
- IRS filings report 121 organizations giving $68,624,476 in grants to RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL, 79 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL?
- BROWN UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $20,472,325 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL 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 121 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