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RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (Rhode Island) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $474,666 to it, the largest being JEWISH FEDERATION FOUNDATION OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND ($317,166). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$210k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$475k
Net assets
$1.1M
3/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 85%
01What it does

What Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association does

Program

  1. Procure, collect and preserve books, records, pamphlets, letters, manuscripts, prints, photographs, paintings, and other historical material relating to the history of the jew of rhode island; to encourage and promote the study of such history by lectures and otherwise; and to publish and diffuse information as to such history. The organization has engaged in research, published and provides a respository for its collections.

    $115,988 spent$9,920 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $115,988.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($311k) Expenses 100 ($61k) Net assets 100 ($937k)2018 Revenue 43 ($134k) Expenses 126 ($77k) Net assets 93 ($872k)2019 Revenue 22 ($70k) Expenses 169 ($103k) Net assets 98 ($918k)2020 Revenue 22 ($68k) Expenses 155 ($95k) Net assets 102 ($957k)2021 Revenue 41 ($126k) Expenses 164 ($100k) Net assets 116 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 29 ($89k) Expenses 194 ($119k) Net assets 99 ($932k)2023 Revenue 33 ($103k) Expenses 234 ($143k) Net assets 103 ($969k)2024 Revenue 68 ($210k) Expenses 246 ($151k) Net assets 113 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (68)Expenses (246)Net assets (113)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.1M to $932k (−14%).

$937k
$874k
$918k
$957k
$1.1M
$932k
$969k
$1.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$250k
’17
$57k
’18
−$34k
’19
−$27k
’20
$26k
’21
−$30k
’22
−$40k
’23
$60k
’24
7.7
months of
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.

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Listed1818181514141514
Joined·+2+1+1+2+0+3+1
No longer listed·2143022
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $18k → $79k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 JEWISH HISTORICAL 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 JEWISH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 JEWISH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.

67%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 88% · 2019 100% · 2020 88% · 2021 93% · 2022 90% · 2023 81% — 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

25% of RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

68% of RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'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 $151k that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from funders outside Rhode Island, across 3 states.

MA
RI
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Rhode Island out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $324k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HISTORICAL 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 23%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

87%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION?
RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (Rhode Island) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $474,666 to it, the largest being JEWISH FEDERATION FOUNDATION OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND ($317,166). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $474,666 in grants to RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION?
JEWISH FEDERATION FOUNDATION OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND is the largest funder on record, with $317,166 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HISTORICAL 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.

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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 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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