Rhode Island · Nonprofit
Rhode Island School Recycling Project
Rhode Island School Recycling Project (Rhode Island) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,000 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($193,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $110k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $203k
- Net assets
- $66k
What Rhode Island School Recycling Project does
Mission
Help public and private K-12 schools in Rhode Island rescue food waste produced in their meal programs while improving recycling rates and diverting healthy edible food from waste stream to food insecure students and their families by engaging students, custodians, food service workers, teachers, parents, administrators and outside vendors. When successful, the project will also generate student leaders interested in environmental sciences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During the last year we continued to expand the project in North Providence where we are working with the District under a USDA grant the town was awarded. We are now in all the schools except for the High School which we hope to launch during the next school year. Secondly, we continued to expand into additional schools and districts and trained students to divert healthy edible food from the waste stream, to recycle properly, pour off liquid waste and compost their food scraps. Lastly, we added to our staff team and our Board of Trustees which has increased our capacity and impact across the state. We now have functioning committees on the Board and have over 20 people, paid and volunteer, who attend a weekly staff zoom meeting on Monday mornings.
$195,529 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $195,529.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $198k to $67k (−66%).
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: 2024 22% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Rhode Island School Recycling Project’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 School Recycling Project’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 School Recycling Project leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
“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 School Recycling Project draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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 School Recycling Project's revenue fell 59% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Rhode Island School Recycling Project: 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 School Recycling Project?
- Rhode Island School Recycling Project (Rhode Island) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,000 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($193,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Rhode Island School Recycling Project have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $203,000 in grants to Rhode Island School Recycling Project, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rhode Island School Recycling Project?
- THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $193,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rhode Island School Recycling Project 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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