Rhode Island · Nonprofit
RHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH
RHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH (Rhode Island) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $571,100 to it, the largest being CLIMATE JOBS NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC ($470,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
RHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 71 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporatedshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Navigant Credit Unionshared funderslocalportfolio match
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.
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 1% · 2018 8% · 2019 43% · 2020 50% · 2021 55% · 2022 49% · 2023 62% · 2024 69% · 2025 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of RHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $21k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $376k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Rhode Island Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money RHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH raised.
From the IRS filings of RHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH’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 INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 88% · 2019 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 83% · 2022 83% · 2023 95% — 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.
Where its funders are
RHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporatedshared funderslocalportfolio matchRI · backs 68 organizations that share your funders · funds 124 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchRI · backs 91 organizations that share your funders · funds 210 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Navigant Credit Unionshared funderslocalportfolio matchRI · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · funds 63 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Women's Fund of Rhode Islandlocalportfolio matchRI · funds 23 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Painters and Allied Trades DC #35 Allied Trades District Council #35portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Pearle W & Martin M Silverstein Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Amalgamated Transit Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Assn of Bridge Structural Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cvs Health Charity Classic Incshared funderslocalRI · backs 50 organizations that share your funders · funds 58 organizations near you
- The Champlin Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 169 organizations that share your funders · funds 238 organizations near you
- Citizens Community Foundationshared funderslocalRI · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · funds 26 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 RHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH: 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 INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH?
- RHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH (Rhode Island) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $571,100 to it, the largest being CLIMATE JOBS NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC ($470,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $571,100 in grants to RHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH?
- CLIMATE JOBS NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $470,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH 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 7funders 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