Rhode Island · Nonprofit
THE MARIPOSA CENTER
THE MARIPOSA CENTER (Rhode Island) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($165,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2019
- $4k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $190k
- Net assets
- $0
What The Mariposa Center does
Mission
The Mariposa Center is to create a safe, warm, nurturing place where children can know the joy of learning, creating and doing at an early age, and where families can be part of a welcoming learning community. Mariposa aims to acquaint children with the power of their own imagination and the confidence of their abilities, inspiring them to embark on lives in which learning is as natural and necessary as breathing. Mariposa aims to give them a foundation of a healthy lifestyle - based on good nutrition, regular activity, and an affinity for the natural world - that will last for their entire lives. Mariposa seeks to strengthen the bonds of community.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
Mariposa pre-k program: our program encourages children to learn by imagining, inventing, building, role-playing, and creating their own play environments. This method informs confidence, collaboration, communication, and creative thinking. The program offers a way for parents to engage in a meaningful way with their children. The program offers close observation by the teacher and positive teacher-child interactions which move each child forward in their individual learning. We believe in teachers as role models for learning & healthy living. We build on the strengths of families. As an all-day learning environment for pre-kindergarten, the program serves as a laboratory for research on teaching & learning methods, as well as an incubator for developing a model of childhood learning in urban settings.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2018 to 2019, from $179k to $0 (−100%).
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 35% · 2018 48% · 2019 64%. 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 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $110k → $80k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 MARIPOSA CENTER’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 MARIPOSA CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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
87% 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 MARIPOSA CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
87% of THE MARIPOSA CENTER'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 $25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Rhode Island, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $165k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 THE MARIPOSA CENTER
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
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 THE MARIPOSA CENTER: 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 THE MARIPOSA CENTER?
- THE MARIPOSA CENTER (Rhode Island) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($165,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE MARIPOSA CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $190,000 in grants to THE MARIPOSA CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MARIPOSA CENTER?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $165,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MARIPOSA CENTER 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), 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