Rhode Island · Nonprofit
SHIP
SHIP (Rhode Island) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,785 to it, the largest being Patty Brisben Foundation for Women's Sexual Health ($30,175). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $188k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $48k
- Net assets
- $0
What Ship does
Mission
The mission of SHIP is to advance culturally inclusive, medically accurate, and pleasure informed sexuality education, therapy, and professional training to adults. We envision a world where pleasure is viewed as an integral part of health and where adults can talk about sexuality while feeling comfortable and supported. We believe everyone deserves equitable care and sex education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
. During the reporting period, SHIP successfully delivered a wide range of community-centered educational and support initiatives aimed at enhancing sexual health awareness and relationship development. SHIP hosted approximately 30 workshops covering critical and inclusive topics such as asexuality, mindfulness, pleasure, LGBTQIA+ health, and Black health. These workshops were designed to provide accurate, affirming, and accessible sex education to diverse populations.In collaboration with community partners, SHIP organized two sex trivia events and four brunch trivia sessions. These interactive events served as engaging platforms for both education and community connection. SHIP also supported the professional development of future sexual health professionals by hosting three interns and coordinating two meet-ups specifically for sexuality educators, fostering continued learning and peer support.To further promote relationship development, SHIP facilitated a polyamory support group in Fall 2023 for eight participants, offering a safe and supportive environment to explore non-monogamous relationship dynamics. All programming was designed to support professional, personal, and…
$175,000 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $175,000.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $42k to $83k (+99%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Michelle Mooney
Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $89.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 SHIP’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
SHIP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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
100% 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 SHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 75% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
SHIP 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. $18k 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.
Organizations like SHIP
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
94%
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 SHIP: 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 SHIP?
- SHIP (Rhode Island) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,785 to it, the largest being Patty Brisben Foundation for Women's Sexual Health ($30,175). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHIP have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $47,785 in grants to SHIP, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHIP?
- Patty Brisben Foundation for Women's Sexual Health is the largest funder on record, with $30,175 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHIP 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 3 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