Rhode Island · Nonprofit
West Broadway Neighborhood Association
West Broadway Neighborhood Association (Rhode Island) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,039 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($45,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $133k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $91k
- Net assets
- $563k
What West Broadway Neighborhood Association does
Mission
West Broadway Neighborhood Association (The Association) is a Rhode Island organzation whose mission is to organize its neighbors and businesses on the west side of Providence to preserve and protect our diverse, historic, urban community as a safe, vibrant, and sustainable place to shop, work, eat, live and learn locally. The Association's purpose is accomplished by working with government agencies, private foundations and other local organzations for the benefit of the common and public areas generally located in the West Broadway area of Providence Rhode Island. The Association educates the residents of the West Broadway area in community improvement through meetings, workshops, grassroots programs, community development projects and other events. 1577 Westminster street is an owned mixed use building that has green elements including solar panels, blown in insulation high efficiency heating and white reflective roof. The ground floor is owned by the Association.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
WBNA programs and initiatives support and promote the neighborhood as a sustainable place for our diverse population to shop, work, eat, live and learn locally. Working with neighbors, businesses, elected officials and other local nonprofits, these include vaccination and flu shot clinics, tree-planting and community gardening, neighborhood cleanups, a solar leasing program, events to encourage connection and dialogue between neighbors and elected officials, engagement with local schools, a charging station for electric vehicles, and creating spaces for small businesses to thrive. Partnering with local organizations, we support work that serves the most vulnerable members of our community. Through our popular Live Local, Give Local campaign, we contribute tangible assistance in the form of grocery gift cards to food insecure neighbors during November and December, as well as toy gift cards at Christmas. In 2023 we distributed 174 cards to local schools (Asa Messer Elementary, West Broadway Middle School, Central and Classical High Schools, and the Providence Career and Technical Academy) and two community centers for families in need. WBNA's two rental properties, at 1192 and 1577…
$153,864 spentof which $3,744 as grants$68,660 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $153,864.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.0M to $835k (−18%).
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 46% · 2021 24% · 2022 30% · 2023 38% · 2024 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of West Broadway Neighborhood Association’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $500 → $76k.
2 of 5 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 West Broadway Neighborhood Association’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
West Broadway Neighborhood Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 West Broadway Neighborhood Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 59% — 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
West Broadway Neighborhood Association draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
West Broadway Neighborhood Association is better cushioned than half of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like West Broadway Neighborhood Association
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for West Broadway Neighborhood Association: 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 West Broadway Neighborhood Association?
- West Broadway Neighborhood Association (Rhode Island) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,039 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($45,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does West Broadway Neighborhood Association have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $91,039 in grants to West Broadway Neighborhood Association, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of West Broadway Neighborhood Association?
- THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like West Broadway Neighborhood Association 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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