Rhode Island · Nonprofit
WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC
WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,844,221 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($889,356). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Westerly Area Rest Meals (Warm) Inc does
Mission
The mission of the warm center is to provide a continuum of care and service to the homeless and needy by providing affordable housing and assuring supportive services, and to help the homeless and needy build self-esteem and move toward independent and responsible living.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
See part iii, line 4b for a description of the new winter shelter for families program.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Winter shelter for families program contract expired and program was ended june 30, 2025.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Shelter program - warm acquired welcome house of south county's emergency shelter in 2022. The emergency shelter programs (for single individuals) housed 178 individuals during fiscal year 2025, for a total of 11,988 bed nights. Of those individuals, 11 exited to a permanent housing destination, 39 exited to a temporary destination, and 1 exited to other destinations. An additional 42 individuals were assisted through the emergency winter overflow shelter.
$402,107 spentof which $429 as grants18% of program spendingWinter shelter families - warm provided seasonal shelter to 27 families, including 33 adults and 40 children. Of the 73 total individuals served, 18 exited to permanent housing and 23 exited to temporary housing situations. During the winter months, warm offers safe shelter and intensive case management, serving as the entry point in the community's crisis response system for families experiencing homelessness. Our program ensures that unsheltered families with children have their basic needs met while working toward secure, stable housing.
$393,098 spentof which $1,580 as grants18% of program spendingFamily housing programs - harvest homes and family interim - in fiscal year 2025, the family programs provided housing for 18 homeless families consisting of 24 adults and 36 children. Without the resources of harvest homes and family interim, these families and individuals may have been homeless and in shelter. Of those families that exited the program, 10 families exited to a positive housing destination and 3 families exited to a temporary housing destination.
$315,145 spentof which $307,942 as grants$321 earned by the program14% of program spendingAnita's kitchen, children's summer lunch program, community outreach program, permanent supportive housing, attire for hire program, housing navigation program, and street outreach.
$1,070,357 spent$122,010 earned by the program49% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,180,707.
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 $2.7M to $4.0M (+49%).
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 42% · 2018 38% · 2021 7% · 2022 13% · 2023 41% · 2024 56% · 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Russell J Partridge
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $68k → $256k.
11 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 42% · 2019 59% · 2020 61% · 2021 50% · 2022 68% · 2023 55% — 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.
How long its funders stay
30% of WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
83% of WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) 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 $319k that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from funders outside Rhode Island, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) 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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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
- Warm Supportive Homes Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC?
- WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,844,221 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($889,356). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $1,844,221 in grants to WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC?
- THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $889,356 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) 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 49 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