Rhode Island · Nonprofit
SHEA FASHION
SHEA FASHION (Rhode Island) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being RALPH R PAPITTO & BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $4k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $-150
What Shea Fashion does
Mission
To provide access to real world experiences and personal growth through creative arts and fashion for youths in low income underserved communities. Enrichment of community through partnerships with schools families business and community organizations.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Shea Fashion Annual Fashion Show has accomplished reaching high school students and the community beyond the classroom earning accolades as a source of pride in the City of Pawtucket and empowering students and engaging the entire community. Thus it has become a source of community pride and community building. This creates a celebration of diversity creativity and collaboration. Our Runway to Confidence program engaged over 110 students in design program performing arts creativity and collaboration. Over 800 tickets were sold in 2023 affecting that many community members and families.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
William Lopera
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SHEA FASHION’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
SHEA FASHION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
67% of SHEA FASHION's grant income comes from Rhode Island funders.
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.
Against its field
SHEA FASHION receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like SHEA FASHION
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.
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 SHEA FASHION: 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 SHEA FASHION?
- SHEA FASHION (Rhode Island) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being RALPH R PAPITTO & BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHEA FASHION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $7,500 in grants to SHEA FASHION.
- Who is the largest funder of SHEA FASHION?
- RALPH R PAPITTO & BARBARA A PAPITTO PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHEA FASHION 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 FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), 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