Nonprofits in Rhode Island

Rhode Island has a smaller state-level nonprofit footprint on the site, with 8 organizations whose IRS Form 990 lists Rhode Island as the principal office. Combined revenue is in the multi-billion range. The largest single category by revenue in Rhode Island is Health.

Rhode Island hosts 8 of the nonprofits in our database. State-level totals reflect organizations whose Form 990 lists Rhode Island as the primary office address; nationally active charities may also operate here under affiliate or chapter structures.

The 8 Rhode Island nonprofits in this view together report $3.5B in combined annual revenue on their most recent IRS Form 990 filings. Median revenue is $255.9M, and the simple average is $434.0M — a gap that reflects the long-tail distribution typical of the nonprofit sector, where a handful of large organizations account for most aggregate dollars.

Across the 8 Rhode Island nonprofits we track, 2 earn an A and 6 earn a B on the Efficiency Score (combined 100% in the top two tiers, with A-grade organizations alone at 25%). Another 0 land at C, 0 at D, and 0 at F — a combined 0% in the bottom two tiers based on program ratio, reserves, growth consistency, and CEO-comp ratio drawn from each organization's most recent Form 990.

Executive compensation detail is reported on Schedule J of the Form 990 and is not always present for every organization in this list — particularly the smaller filers using Form 990-EZ.

State-level rankings are most useful when the donor cares about local economic activity or wants a charity headquartered nearby. They are less useful for evaluating a single organization’s financial structure: a Rhode Island food bank should be compared to other food banks of similar revenue scale rather than to all Rhode Island nonprofits put together. Use the category and revenue-tier filters for that finer-grained read.

The NonprofitTruth Efficiency Score is a 0–100 composite that summarizes four signals from the Form 990: program-spending ratio (50% of the score), revenue-growth consistency over multiple years (20%), months of fund reserves on the balance sheet (20%), and CEO compensation as a share of revenue (10%). The grade A–F mapping is purely descriptive — it summarizes the financial structure that the 990 reveals, not the social impact, program quality, or outcomes of the work the organization does. Donors evaluating impact should pair these financial signals with program-level evaluations from sources like Charity Navigator, GiveWell, or the organization's own audited reports.

The data on this page reflects only organizations whose principal office is in Rhode Island. National charities active in Rhode Island but headquartered elsewhere are listed under their home state.

All financials on this page come from each organization's IRS Form 990 — the federal information return that 501(c)(3) public charities, private foundations, and most other tax-exempt organizations must file annually. The Form 990 is a public document. We ingest it primarily through the ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer feed, which mirrors the IRS Tax-Exempt Organization Search dataset. Original e-file XML and PDF copies of any return can be looked up directly at the IRS, ProPublica, or the Candid (formerly GuideStar) directory.

Every Rhode Island nonprofit listed has its underlying Form 990 available free of charge from the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search, the ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, or the Candid (GuideStar) directory.