Rhode Island · Nonprofit
THE GRODEN CENTER INC
THE GRODEN CENTER INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $575,635 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($287,025). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $576k
- Net assets
- $14M
What The Groden Center Inc does
Mission
To provide daytime and residential treatment programs for children and adults diagnosed with autism or behavioral disorders.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Day program - day treatment & education programs for children & adolescents with autism, behavior disorders, social & emotional disturbances & other maladaptive behavior.
$6,270,324 spent$7,591,090 earned by the program34% of program spendingResidential programs - residences for youths who participate in the day program, who need to be placed outside their homes due to problems related to autism and other behavioral disorders.
$5,823,581 spent$6,114,716 earned by the program32% of program spendingOutside services - community service programs, professional family living arrangements and intensive early intervention programs.
$6,333,373 spent$8,887,819 earned by the program34% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,427,278.
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 2019 to 2020, from $11M to $13M (+20%).
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: 2021 14% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Michael Pearis
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $16k → $56k.
5 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 THE GRODEN CENTER INC’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 GRODEN CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 GRODEN CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 54% · 2019 39% · 2020 98% · 2021 53% · 2022 53% · 2023 36% — 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.
How long its funders stay
27% of THE GRODEN CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
55% of THE GRODEN CENTER INC'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 $258k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from Rhode Island funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $318k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Government funding THE GRODEN CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250k on record — $250k federal, $145 state.
- Department of Energy$250k
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$145
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 THE GRODEN CENTER INC
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- The Cove Center Inc · exempt
- Behavioral Associates of Massachusetts Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE GRODEN CENTER INC?
- THE GRODEN CENTER INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $575,635 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($287,025). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE GRODEN CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $575,635 in grants to THE GRODEN CENTER INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GRODEN CENTER INC?
- THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $287,025 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GRODEN CENTER INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing