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Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic

Warwick, RI · EIN 05-0384580. Reported 76 grants totalling $17.8M to 28 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

28organizations funded
$50,155median reported grant
$17.8Mgranted, 2020-2024
68%of grantees funded again the next year
29%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 28 distinct organizations, with 29% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 68% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $50,155. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $373,479; the smallest was $1,885 and the largest $1,247,065. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
Under $5,000
1 grant
$5,000 - $10,000
4 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
24 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
13 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
2 grants
$250,000 Or More
24 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Black Stone Valley Advocacy CenterCentral Falls, RI$5,249,686552024
Newport County Womens Resource CenterNewport, RI$4,666,356552024
Elizabeth Buffum Chace CenterWarwick, RI$2,675,890552024
Domestic Violence Resource Center of South County IncWakefield, RI$2,151,483552024
Crossroads Rhode IslandProvidence, RI$1,410,944552024
Progresso LatinoCentral Falls, RI$327,475552024
Sojourner HouseProvidence, RI$305,885442024
Youth in Action IncProvidence, RI$214,671442024
Day OneProvidence, RI$189,868552024
Refugee Development Center IncProvidence, RI$185,138552024
Arise Foundation America IncLos Angeles, CA$130,000442024
Center for Southeast AsiansProvidence, RI$67,478332024
Project South the Institution for the Elimination Poverty & GenocideAtlanta, GA$35,000222021
Conexion Latina NewportNewport, RI$34,151222024
Young VoicesProvidence, RI$29,000222023
East Bay Community Action ProgramRiverside, RI$21,117222023
Katie Brown Educational Program IncFall River, MA$17,000222024
Providence Housing AuthorityProvidence, RI$15,000112021
Riverzedge Arts ProjectWoonsocket, RI$15,000112023
Womens Refugee Commission IncNew York, NY$15,000112023
Gentlemen's AcademyProvidence, RI$14,787112023
Jodi Glass$13,581112020
Connecting for Children and Families IncWoonsocket, RI$12,787112024
Family Service of Rhode Island IncProvidence, RI$10,934112023
New Bridges for Haitian Success IncProvidence, RI$10,000112021
Tri-County Community Action IncCenter, TX$10,000112020
Sheila C Skip Nowell Leadership AcademyProvidence, RI$9,025112020
Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island IncProvidence, RI$1,885112020

17 of 28 (61%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 20 of 28 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
11 orgs
Youth Development
3 orgs
International Affairs
2 orgs
Crime & Legal
1 org
Community Improvement
1 org
Public & Societal Benefit
1 org
Education
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202017$3,627,570$42,500
202113$3,088,812$54,000
202213$3,582,920$51,000
202318$3,419,944$30,000
202415$4,119,895$69,497

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

99% of its giving went to organizations in Rhode Island. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Rhode Island
$17.6M
California
$130K
Georgia
$35K
Massachusetts
$17K
New York
$15K
Texas
$10K

Down to the city

Central Falls, RI
$5.6M
Newport, RI
$4.7M
Warwick, RI
$2.7M
Providence, RI
$2.5M
Wakefield, RI
$2.2M
Los Angeles, CA
$130K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

The Rhode Island Community Foundation23 shared recipientsUnited Way of Rhode Island Inc17 shared recipientsThe Champlin Foundation15 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund14 shared recipientsRalph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto11 shared recipientsJune Rockwell Levy Foundation9 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,155 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Rhode Island.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 641 Bald Hill Road Suite 1, Warwick, RI, 02886.

EIN 05-0384580 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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