Rhode Island · Nonprofit
WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES
WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES (Rhode Island) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,980,811 to it, the largest being RHODE ISLAND COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ($7,625,042). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $10.0M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Womens Resource Center of Newport and Bristol Counties does
Mission
The women's resource center empowers survivors by providing trauma-informed services with equity and compassion while working collaboratively with the community to eliminate the root causes of interpersonal abuse.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The newport health equity zone was established in 2015 as the wrc's prevention department. Nhez operates as a city-wide coalition mobilizing residents and resources of the broadway and north end neighborhoods to make newport a place where everyone can thrive. Committed to innovative, resident-driven strategies that address health disparities, the newport hez uses a racial-equity lens in all its work. Over the past five years, we have organized nhez residents and community partners to address environmental factors - also known as the social determinants of health - contributing to poor health in the hez neighborhoods
$423,838 spent$406,324 earned by the program26% of program spendingThe family violence option advocacy program (fvoap) assists the department of human services' (dhs) clients who are victims/survivors of domestic violence. Through the fvoap program, clients may be able to obtain a waiver from certain requirements of the ri works program or child care assistance program. The fvoap also provides victims/survivors with other kinds of assistance such as immediate crisis counseling and safety planning. In 2025, fvoap provided 1,434 sessions to 443 clients throughout rhode island
$324,936 spent$289,210 earned by the program20% of program spendingTransitional housing and emergency shelter - this crucial program empowers survivors of domestic violence and their children to live independently while continuing to benefit from case management and other supportive services. Wrc provides a furnished apartment to a survivor for 6-24 months, creates individualized goal plans with each client, offers a full continuum of supportive services and case management, and provides economic empowerment supports tailored to a client's unique needs including financial literacy, education/ job training, and employment search assistance. Pet friendly units are now available. We also provide a range of emergency and crisis services for domestic violence victims and their children. Our emergency shelter program meets the critical needs of victims by providing shelter, food, and other basic human needs. Shelter clients are also able to meet with a counselor within 24 hours, to assess their critical mental health needs. In 2025, 10 adults and 16 children spent 1,729 nights in shelter, receiving these critical supportive services. Other crisis services include a 24-hour hotline, walk-in services, advocacy, and referrals. In 2025, our staff answered…
$448,237 spent$455,503 earned by the program27% of program spendingDomestic violence counseling - wrc provides individual and group therapy for adults and children to support them through the trauma of being a victim of, or witness to, domestic violence. Our professional, supportive counselors assist victims as they navigate the psychological complexities inherent in domestic violence situations. This program is a life-changing resource for those who are uninsured or are unable to access mental health treatment without risking their perpetrator discovering they are seeking help. Court advocacy - our first interaction with domestic violence victims is often in the court system. Advocates support victims by guiding them through the completion of complicated paperwork; educating them on the inner workings of the legal system; and connecting them to a variety of community services so they can achieve desired independence. In 2025, our court advocates provided victim and prosecution support with 1,604 sessions to 542 survivors. Law enforcement advocacy - the law enforcement advocate collaborates with law enforcement to provide improved responses to domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking to victims. The advocate works directly with 5 local…
$174,270 spent$162,814 earned by the program11% of program spendingCourt advocacy- our first interaction with domestic violence victims is often in the court system. Advocates support victims by guiding them through the completion of complicated paperwork; educating them on the inner workings of the legal system; and connecting them to a variety of community services so they can achieve desired independence. In 2021, our court advocates provided victim and prosecution support with 2,366 sessions to 478 clients. Law enforcement advocacy. The law enforcement advocate collaborates with law enforcement to provide improved responses to domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking to victims. The advocate works directly with 5 local police departments, including tiverton police department, to provide crisis intervention, safety planning, referrals and information including but not limited to the criminal justice system. In 2021, our law enforcement advocate supported 345 clients with 737 sessions from five police departments.crisis intervention. We provide a range of emergency and crisis services for domestic violence victims and their children. Our emergency shelter program meets the critical needs of victims by providing shelter, food, and other…
$286,094 spent$274,358 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,657,375.
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 $1.2M to $2.4M (+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: 2025 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $756k → $1.2M.
10 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 83% · 2019 68% · 2020 67% · 2021 75% · 2022 65% · 2023 72% — 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
44% of WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
89% of WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES'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 8 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
WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES?
- WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES (Rhode Island) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,980,811 to it, the largest being RHODE ISLAND COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ($7,625,042). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $9,980,811 in grants to WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES?
- RHODE ISLAND COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE is the largest funder on record, with $7,625,042 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES 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 44 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