Rhode Island · Nonprofit
THE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC
THE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,896,190 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,411,743). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $7.6M
What The Jonnycake Center Inc does
Mission
The mission of the jonnycake center is to provide basic needs, resources, and hope to our community members. Our vision is a community without hunger and poverty where everyone can reach their full potential and improve their quality of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food and nutrition: the center's food pantry, jonnycake market, serves close to 2,000 people a year through bi-monthly shopping, school vacation meals, weekly summer produce pick-ups, and monthly deliveries to homebound seniors and families. The center collaborates with nutrition and health partners to host nutrition education and healthy cooking classes. The center also hosts wic services in partnership with wood river health.
$688,069 spentof which $532,481 as grants35% of program spendingEconomic security: the center provided just shy of $100,000 in financial assistance to help local households avoid eviction and utility shut-offs, secure new housing, and keep the family car on the road. The center hosts a volunteer income tax assistance (vita) site. Volunteers filed 429 tax returns that resulted in close to $400,000 in refunds and credits, and thousands of dollars saved in tax preparation fees. Our community health workers assist countless members with applications for government benefits, including snap and childcare assistance, that help households make ends meet.
$404,699 spentof which $99,172 as grants20% of program spendingHousing: the center helps local households gain access to affordable housing in two ways. First, our community health workers spend considerable time helping displaced families apply for new housing and secure financial assistance for security deposits. The center also owned and operated seven multi-unit apartment buildings which were used for service-enhanced housing. Families are provided with utilities and wireless internet at no cost, as well as case management and wrap-around services. Significant renovations are planned, or have been completed, several more units in the fall of 2025 and 2026.
$109,238 spent6% of program spendingChild and youth enrichment: the center has expanded its program offerings to children and youth over the past five years. In june of 2025, renovations on a new youth center were completed and the jonnycake youth center was set to open in july. In addition, we continued our partnership with the university of rhode island and south kingstown school district to offer after school and summer academic and enrichment opportunities to economically disadvantaged students. The center also sponsors children to attend summer camp and provides specialized tutoring for children with language-based learning needs.
$783,304 spent39% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,985,310.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.6M to $4.9M (+90%).
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: 2017 3% · 2021 2% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Kate Brewster
Executive director
Board chair
Louis Giancola
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $32k → $706k.
8 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 JONNYCAKE CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 funders by total. 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 JONNYCAKE CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
55% 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 JONNYCAKE CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 40% · 2019 75% · 2020 40% · 2021 29% · 2022 44% · 2023 28% — 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
79% of THE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
51% of THE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC'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. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 JONNYCAKE CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$500k
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 JONNYCAKE 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
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Jonnycake Center Realty Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC?
- THE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,896,190 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,411,743). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $3,896,190 in grants to THE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC?
- THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,411,743 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE JONNYCAKE 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 53 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