Rhode Island · Nonprofit
RI WOMEN IN THE TRADES
RI WOMEN IN THE TRADES (Rhode Island) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $320,209 to it, the largest being RALPH R PAPITTO & BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($177,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $509k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $320k
- Net assets
- $166k
What Ri Women in the Trades does
Mission
Educate, organize & expand rhode island's current and future tradewomen to become one voice, advocating to insure fair and equal access to information, training and opportunity for employment in the construction industry.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Girls can tool/youth program this program provides an experiential, hands-on empowerment workshop for youths ages 6-14
$42,627 spent30% of program spendingPreapprentice program. This program provides education and organizes and expands ri's current and future tradeswomen to become one voice advocating to ensure fair and equal access to information, training and opportunity for employment in the construction industry.
$67,644 spent48% of program spendingAdvocacy - this program adocates, organizes and informs tradeswomen locally and nationwide on issues and topics that support and guide tradeswomen in the field.
$17,020 spent12% of program spendingThis program provides education and training to women incarcerated in rhode island prisons for employment in the construction industry.
$12,595 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $139,886.
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 2023 to 2024, from $25k to $166k (+554%).
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 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of RI WOMEN IN THE TRADES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% 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.
Chief executive
Anita Bruno
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $75k → $82k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 RI WOMEN IN THE TRADES’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
RI WOMEN IN THE TRADES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 34% — 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.
Where its funders are
61% of RI WOMEN IN THE TRADES's grant income comes from Rhode Island funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
RI WOMEN IN THE TRADES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding RI WOMEN IN THE TRADES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $715k on record.
- Department of Labor$715k
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 RI WOMEN IN THE TRADES
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RI WOMEN IN THE TRADES: 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 RI WOMEN IN THE TRADES?
- RI WOMEN IN THE TRADES (Rhode Island) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $320,209 to it, the largest being RALPH R PAPITTO & BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($177,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RI WOMEN IN THE TRADES have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $320,209 in grants to RI WOMEN IN THE TRADES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RI WOMEN IN THE TRADES?
- RALPH R PAPITTO & BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $177,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RI WOMEN IN THE TRADES 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 7 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