Charities and Community Foundations That Give Grants in Rhode Island

These 23 organizations are not private foundations. They are charities based in Rhode Island that give grants to other nonprofits and report them on Form 990 Schedule I -- community foundations, United Ways and federated funds, hospital and university foundations, and operating charities that regrant. Each gave to at least 20 organizations we could identify and filed a return covering 2023 or later.

23grantmaking charities

$827.1Mgranted between them

3,687funding relationships mapped

Ordered by number of organizations funded, not by dollars. Funding more organizations means more turnover in who gets a grant each year, which is a reasonable proxy for how often a list like this one changes -- it is not a signal that any specific grantmaker is open to a new, unsolicited applicant.

Organization	Based in	Median grant	Organizations	Total granted
The Rhode Island Community Foundation	Providence	$16,000	1,467	$357.5M
United Way of Rhode Island Inc	Providence	$15,100	475	$38.8M
Brown University	Providence	$92,921	294	$217.7M
Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation	North Kingstown	$18,983	223	$25.2M
June Rockwell Levy Foundation	Providence	$10,000	137	$6.1M
Jewish Federation Foundation of Greater	Providence	$2,940	108	$18.8M
American Academy of Addiction	East Providence	$134,658	94	$69.9M
Ri Hospitality Association	Cranston	$10,000	91	$1.1M
North American Catholic Educational	Johnston	$14,879	90	$34.9M
Rhode Island Council for the Humanities	Providence	$8,000	88	$1.1M
Cvs Health Charity Classic Inc	Woonsocket	$15,000	80	$2.4M
Share Winter Foundation	Providence	$20,000	80	$5.6M
Rhode Island Community Food Bank	Providence	$10,000	73	$3.3M
Jacques Pepin Foundation the	Barrington	$10,000	59	$946K
Navigant Credit Union	Smithfield	$10,000	54	$4.1M
Haffenreffer Family Fund	Providence	$15,000	44	$2.6M
Delta Dental of Rhode Island	Providence	$10,000	41	$11.9M
Olneyville Housing Corporation	Providence	$25,000	40	$3.5M
Mentor Rhode Island	Warwick	$24,970	35	$1.3M
American Mathematical Society	Providence	$11,000	32	$986K
Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic	Warwick	$50,155	28	$17.8M
Employee Community Services Association	North Kingstown	$7,500	27	$692K
Chartercare Foundation	North Providence	$24,090	27	$950K

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.

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