Rhode Island · Nonprofit
THE RHODE ISLAND CENTER FOR JUSTICE
THE RHODE ISLAND CENTER FOR JUSTICE (Rhode Island) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,265,184 to it, the largest being RHODE ISLAND LEGAL SERVICES INC ($2,038,557). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What The Rhode Island Center for Justice does
Mission
To increase access to justice in rhode island by providing free legal assistance to low-income individuals, families and communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During the fiscal year The Rhode Island Center for Justice continued to provide free legal assistance to low-income rhode islanders and expanded into additional areas of critical need including the representation of public-school students to support their educational and constitutional rights and the representation of incarcerated individuals to protect against violations of their civil rights. The Rhode Island Center for Justice also became an active participant in the immigrant coalition, a group of over thirty organizations assisting immigrants to understand their rights and get support for their children. In the six core areas of advocacy, (housing, employment, utilities education, civil rights, and support to immigrants), the center for justice staff again directly assisted hundreds of households.
$1,166,731 spent$5,950 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,166,731.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.4M to $2.3M (+62%).
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: 2018 3% · 2019 6% · 2020 1% · 2021 15% · 2022 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE RHODE ISLAND CENTER FOR JUSTICE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
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
Jennifer Wood
Executive director
Board chair
Amato Deluca
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $43k → $1.4M.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 RHODE ISLAND CENTER FOR JUSTICE’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 RHODE ISLAND CENTER FOR JUSTICE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 RHODE ISLAND CENTER FOR JUSTICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 46% · 2020 75% · 2021 75% · 2022 60% · 2023 70% — 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
29% of THE RHODE ISLAND CENTER FOR JUSTICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
96% of THE RHODE ISLAND CENTER FOR JUSTICE'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. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
THE RHODE ISLAND CENTER FOR JUSTICE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE RHODE ISLAND CENTER FOR JUSTICE
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE RHODE ISLAND CENTER FOR JUSTICE: 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 RHODE ISLAND CENTER FOR JUSTICE?
- THE RHODE ISLAND CENTER FOR JUSTICE (Rhode Island) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,265,184 to it, the largest being RHODE ISLAND LEGAL SERVICES INC ($2,038,557). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE RHODE ISLAND CENTER FOR JUSTICE have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $3,265,184 in grants to THE RHODE ISLAND CENTER FOR JUSTICE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE RHODE ISLAND CENTER FOR JUSTICE?
- RHODE ISLAND LEGAL SERVICES INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,038,557 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE RHODE ISLAND CENTER FOR JUSTICE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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