Rhode Island · Nonprofit
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND (Rhode Island) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,726 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,650). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Joseph and Rosalyn Sinclair Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- AM Roberts Charitable Foundationlocal
- Delta Dental of Rhode Islandportfolio match
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.
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. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $6k → $1k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest University of Rhode Island Foundation & Alumni Engagement). These are real filings, and they are not money THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND raised.
From the IRS filings of THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND’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
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 67% — 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
84% of THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Rhode Island, across 3 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Joseph and Rosalyn Sinclair Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchRI · funds 9 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- AM Roberts Charitable FoundationlocalRI · funds 14 organizations near you
- Delta Dental of Rhode Islandportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The John and Gracilda Murphy Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McQuade Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lifespan Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Bureau of Shippingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feinstein Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Pearle W & Martin M Silverstein Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Weisberg Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Haffenreffer Family Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bob Sullivan Memorial Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- University of Rhode Island Foundation · exempt
- University of Rhode Island · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND?
- THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND (Rhode Island) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,726 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,650). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $6,726 in grants to THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing