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Rhode Island Nonprofits At-a-Glance

Edition II: December 2012 A program of The Rhode Island Foundation

A R E P O R T B Y T H E I N I T I A T I V E F O R N O N P R O F I T E X C E L L E N C E

The Initiative for Nonprofit Excellence Rhode Island Nonprofits At-a-Glance

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................... 2

HOW MANY NONPROFITS ARE THERE IN RHODE ISLAND? ........................................ 3

NONPROFIT DEMOGRAPHICS ........................................................................................... 3

NONPROFIT EMPLOYMENT IMPACT ................................................................................. 5

"Public Charities" as defined by the IRS: ............................................................................................ 7

APPENDIX ................................................................................................................................ 7

Arts ............................................................................................................................................................. 8

Education ................................................................................................................................................... 9

Environment & animals .......................................................................................................................... 10

Health ....................................................................................................................................................... 11

Human Services ...................................................................................................................................... 12

Public & Societal Benefit ...................................................................................................................... 13

THE RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION ................................................................................. 14

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ..................................................................................................... 14

THE INITIATIVE FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE .............................................................. 15


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INTRODUCTION

We released the first edition of Nonprofits At-a-Glance nearly two years ago.

Since then, we have seen continued growth in the sector despite a decline in

funding for many nonprofits. Nonprofit organizations remain an important thread in

the fabric of life in Rhode Island, caring for our elderly residents, producing world-

class theater, tutoring children in our neighborhood schools, advocating for those in

need, cleaning up the state’s fragile ecosystems, and providing housing for

homeless families.

The latest statistics about the economic impact of the sector underscore its

importance. Revenue from public charities pumped more than $8 billion into the

Rhode Island economy in 2010.1 Education (including elementary, secondary, and

higher education) and health care (including hospitals, primary health facilities, and

nursing facilities) represent three-fourths of this revenue, or approximately $6

billion.2 More than 18% of Rhode Islanders are employed by nonprofit

organizations.3 Without the programs, services and jobs generated by nonprofits,

the state would not be as robust.

We have refreshed our original overview of the state’s nonprofit organizations,

featuring the most current information available derived from public sources. We

updated information on the number of nonprofit organizations in the state, their

primary locations, the overall budget and asset size of organizations in all sectors.

In a separate section, we describe the breakdown of number, type, asset size and

budget size by sector of Rhode Island nonprofits. We also added a new table that

captures giving by major Rhode Island funders. We do not analyze the size or

scope of the nonprofit sector, nor do we weigh in on the debate over the number

of nonprofit organizations in Rhode Island. This report is offered as an

informational tool, and we welcome any feedback or questions you may have.

-Jill Pfitzenmayer, Ph.D.

Vice President, The Initiative for Nonprofit Excellence


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HOW MANY NONPROFITS ARE THERE IN RHODE ISLAND?

According to Guidestar, (December, 2012), there are 6,818

501(c)(3) organizations and 409 501(c)(4) organizations in

Rhode Island.

All Rhode Island nonprofit organizations are required to register with the

Secretary of State’s office annually. The number of active nonprofit

organizations registered with the Rhode Island Secretary of State in 2012

is 8,143 and includes organizations with all 501(c) designations. In

addition to public charities and foundations, this number includes

condominium associations, religious groups, sports teams, and other civic

organizations.

Those Rhode Island organizations designated as public charities,

excluding religious institutions, total 3,286. A complete IRS definition of a

public charity is provided on page 7.

NONPROFIT DEMOGRAPHICS

WHAT TYPES AND SIZES ARE RHODE

ISLAND NONPROFITS?

When a nonprofit files a 990 tax form, it must

select an identifying code called the NTEE code.

This defines the primary type of work it does.

From the NTEE codes, nonprofits may be sorted

by the fields of interest that are commonly used

by The Rhode Island Foundation and other

funders.

Figure 1 (p. 3) compares the number of public

charities with assets over $25,000 from 1990-

2012. Figure 2 (p. 4) depicts the number of

nonprofits in 2000 and 2012 according to their

primary field of interest. Most nonprofits (63%)

operate with a budget and asset size below

$100,000. Figure 3 (p. 4) shows their

distribution. Figure 4 (p. 5) presents the number of nonprofits located in

each Rhode Island city and town, and Figure 5 (p. 5) depicts the sources

of revenue for reporting public charities.

There are several definitions of

“nonprofit” and all fall under the

IRS subsection codes for tax-

exempt organizations. The code

section 501 contains 33 categories

and there are four additional tax-

exempt categories. Most nonprofit

organizations are defined by the

IRS as:

501(c)(3) Religious, Educational,

Charitable, Scientific, Literary,

Testing for Public Safety, to Foster

National or International Amateur

Sports Competition, or Prevention

of Cruelty to Children or Animals

Organizations

501(c)(4) Civic Leagues, Social

Welfare Organizations, and Local

Associations of Employees.

842 1,080

1,443

1,888

2,213

3,272

0

500

1,000

1,500

2,000

2,500

3,000

3,500

1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2012

Fig. 1 Number of Reporting Rhode Island Public Charities: 1990-2012

Sources: The Nonprofit Almanac, 2008; Guidestar, 2012; NCCS Dataweb 2012

Table A. Ethnic/racial

makup of boards


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157

202

42

225

438

57

322

424

640

193

378

1,178

366

49

Arts

Education

Environment

Health/Mental Health

Human Services

Public, Societal Benefit

All Others

Fig. 2 Number of Rhode Island Public Charities by Field of Interest: 2000-2012

2000: N=1,443 2012: N=3,272

0

500

1,000

1,500

2,000

2,500

3,000

3,500

4,000

4,500

<$100K $100-500K $500K-1M $1-2.5M $2.5-5M $5-10M >$10M

Fig. 3 Distribution of Rhode Island Public Charities by Asset and Budget Size: 2012

Budget

Assets

Source: NCCS database; Guidestar

Source: Guidestar


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Fig. 4 Location of Rhode Island Public

Charities by City/Town: 2012

Source: Guidestar

NONPROFIT EMPLOYMENT IMPACT

How many Rhode Islanders work in the nonprofit sector?

From the latest public figures available, Rhode Island nonprofits employ more than 18% of the state’s labor

force. Rhode Island and New York are tied as the states with the highest percentage of people employed by

nonprofit organizations, second to Washington, D.C. at more than 26%. Nonprofit employees include: staff

at colleges, universities, and hospitals; social service providers, artists, performers, researchers, advocates,

and environmental workers. Volunteers make up approximately 13,000 of the total workforce, and paid

workers the remaining 65,000.4


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How are Rhode Island

Nonprofits Funded?

Nonprofits have a variety

of funding sources; we

don’t have data specific to

our state but we can

depict national figures for

revenue sources (see Fig.

5, right).5 The top Rhode

Island-based organizations

awarding grants in the

state of Rhode Island are

noted in Table A (below).

Table A. Top Rhode Island-based organizations awarding grants in the state of Rhode Island

Name Total giving: (as of): Type of grantmaker:

The Rhode Island Community Foundation $ 25,596,191 12/31/2011 Community foundation

The Champlin Foundations $ 17,074,565 12/31/2010 Independent foundation

United Way of Rhode Island $ 13,025,502 6/30/2011 Public charity

Hasbro Children's Fund, Inc. $ 7,828,785 12/26/2010 Company-sponsored foundation

CVS Caremark Charitable Trust,Inc. $ 7,311,594 12/31/2010 Company-sponsored foundation

Jewish Federation of Rhode Island $ 4,396,392 6/30/2011 Public charity

FM Global Foundation $ 3,996,717 12/31/2010 Company-sponsored foundation

van Beuren Charitable Foundation, Inc. $ 3,644,394 12/31/2010 Independent foundation

The Sachem Foundation $ 3,410,262 12/31/2011 Independent foundation

The Textron Charitable Trust $ 3,191,351 12/31/2010 Company-sponsored foundation

Ira S. and Anna Galkin Charitable Trust $ 2,689,499 12/31/2011 Independent foundation

Warren Alpert Foundation $ 2,062,500 12/31/2011 Independent foundation

Feinstein Foundation, Inc. $ 1,912,329 12/31/2010 Independent foundation

McAdams Charitable Foundation $ 1,545,768 12/31/2010 Independent foundation

The Carter Family Charitable Trust $ 1,472,382 6/30/2011 Independent foundation

Amica Companies Foundation $ 1,438,771 12/31/2011 Company-sponsored foundation

Shriners of Rhode Island Charities Trust $ 1,241,361 12/31/2010 Independent foundation

Fees for

services and goods from

private sources, 52.4%

Fees for services and goods from government,

23.2%

Private contributions,

13.6%

Government grants, 8.9%

Other, 2.1%

Fig. 5 Sources of Revenue for Reporting Public Charities, 2009

Source: Urban Institute, National Center for Charitable Statistics, Core Files (Public Charities, 2009). Note: Figures do not sum up to 100 percent because overall investment was negative.


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For more information on Rhode Island’s nonprofit sector:

Foundation Center (http://www.fdncenter.org)

Guidestar (http://www.guidestar.org)

National Center for Charitable Statistics at the Urban Institute (http://www.nccs.urban.org)

The Rhode Island Foundation (http://www.rifoundation.org)

APPENDIX

The appendix of this report is devoted to a breakdown of nonprofits in the six major sectors: arts, education, environment and animals, health, human services and public and societal benefit. These are the sector designations defined by Guidestar and do not necessarily match the Rhode Island Foundation sectors. Please also note, these numbers represent figures from Guidestar, including profiles that may not include budget and asset size, thus accounting for varying total numbers.

For a “yellow pages” listing of nonprofit organizations in Rhode Island, please visit the Directory of Rhode Island Nonprofits on the Initiative for Nonprofit Excellence page of the Rhode Island Foundation website. The directory contains basic contact information for most nonprofits and is searchable by keyword.

"Public Charities" as defined by the IRS:

Generally, organizations that are classified as public charities:

Churches, hospitals, qualified medical research organizations affiliated with hospitals, schools, colleges

and universities,

Have active programs of fundraising, receiving contributions from many sources, including the general

public, governmental agencies, corporations, private foundations or other public charities,

Receive income from the conduct of activities in furtherance of the organization’s exempt purposes, or

Actively function in a supporting relationship to one or more existing public charities.

Private foundations, in contrast, typically have a single major source of funding (usually gifts from one family or corporation rather than funding from many sources) and most have as their primary activity the making of grants to other charitable organizations and to individuals, rather than the direct operation of charitable programs.

Source: http://www.irs.gov/charities/charitable/article

http://www.fdncenter.org/

http://www.guidestar.org/

http://www.nccs.urban.org/

http://www.rifoundation.org/


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109

31

42

124

118

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140

Humanities & Historical Societies

Media

Museums

Performing Arts

Service and Other

Arts sector subcategories

288

57

19 23 9 6 9 0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

<$100K $100-$500K $500K-$1M $1M-$2.5M $2.5M-$5M $5M-$10M >$10M

Arts organizations by budget size

295

76

19 12 5 2 2 0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

<$100K $100-$500K $500K-$1M $1M-$2.5M $2.5M-$5M $5M-$10M >$10M

Arts organizations by asset size

Arts


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16

174

39

33

346

32

0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400

College & University

Elementary & Secondary

Libraries

Research Institutes

Service and Other

Vocational, Technical, & Adult

Education sector subcategories

402

93

32 30 24 14 18 0

100

200

300

400

500

<$100K $100-$500K $500K-$1M $1M-$2.5M $2.5M-$5M $5M-$10M >$10M

Education organizations by budget size

408

75

36 30 18 15 30

0

100

200

300

400

500

<$100K $100-$500K $500K-$1M $1M-$2.5M $2.5M-$5M $5M-$10M >$10M

Education organizations by asset size

Education


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59

10

75

4

10

33

2

0 20 40 60 80

Animal Protection, Welfare, & Svcs

Beautification & Horticulture

Conservation & Environ Ed

Healthcare Facilities & Progs

Pollution

Service & Other

Zoos & Veterinary Svcs

Environment and animal sector subcategories

139

29

9 9 2 1 0

0

50

100

150

<$100K $100-$500K $500K-$1M $1M-$2.5M $2.5M-$5M $5M-$10M >$10M

Ennvironment and animal organizations by budget size

141

18

5 9 5 7 4 0

50

100

150

<$100K $100-$500K $500K-$1M $1M-$2.5M $2.5M-$5M $5M-$10M >$10M

Ennvironment and animal organizations by asset size

Environment & animals


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27

60

208

15

68

0 50 100 150 200 250

Addiction & Substance Abuse

Disease & Disease Research

Healthcare Facilities & Progs

Medical Disciplines & Specialty Research

Mental Health & Crisis Services

Health sector subcategories

165

61

28 29 15

27

42

0

50

100

150

200

<$100K $100-$500K $500K-$1M $1M-$2.5M $2.5M-$5M $5M-$10M >$10M

Health organizations by budget size

170

63

21 32 31

17

33

0

50

100

150

200

<$100K $100-$500K $500K-$1M $1M-$2.5M $2.5M-$5M $5M-$10M >$10M

Health organizations by asset size

Health


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31

43

42

468

189

53

293

98

0 100 200 300 400 500

Agriculture & Food

Crime & Legal Related

Employment

General Human Svcs

Housing

Public Safety

Recreation & Sports

Youth Development

Human services sector subcategories

687

240

92 67

24 19 22 0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

<$100K $100-$500K $500K-$1M $1M-$2.5M $2.5M-$5M $5M-$10M >$10M

Human services organizations by budget size

Human Services

724

143 64 96

61 33 26

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

<$100K $100-$500K $500K-$1M $1M-$2.5M $2.5M-$5M $5M-$10M >$10M

Human services organizations by asset size


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11

138

9

209

2

2

0 50 100 150 200 250

Civil Rights & Liberties

Community Improvement

Mutual/Membership Benefit Orgs

Philanthropy, Voluntarism, & Public Benefit

Service & Other

Voter Education & Registration

Public & societal benefit sector `

225

79

26 8 5 6 6

0

100

200

300

<$100K $100-$500K $500K-$1M $1M-$2.5M $2.5M-$5M $5M-$10M >$10M

Public & societal benefit organizations by asset size

Public & Societal Benefit

216

62

17 21

12 12 13 0

100

200

300

<$100K $100-$500K $500K-$1M $1M-$2.5M $2.5M-$5M $5M-$10M >$10M

Public & societal benefit organizations by budget size


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THE RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION

Throughout our nearly 100 year

history, the Foundation has been

dedicated “to meeting the needs

of the people of Rhode Island”.

The peoples' most pressing needs

have changed - and will continue

to change - through the years.

In 2010, we identified two critical

needs and began to increase our

attention and resources within our

education and health sectors, to

raise awareness of these

important issues and to position

the Foundation as a catalyst for

change. These focused efforts, our

“signature initiatives”, address:

Public education reform Our primary goal for public education is to lead the effort-with our many

partners-to reduce statewide drop-out rates for at-risk students.

Primary healthcare reform Our goal in primary healthcare is to lead the efforts, with our many

partners, to reduce the number of Rhode Islanders without a primary care

“medical home” and to increase the number of primary care physicians

practicing in Rhode Island.

1, 2 “Number of Public Charities in Rhode Island.” National Center for Charitable Statistics, 2010.

3 “Holding the Fort: Nonprofit Employment During a Decade of Turmoil.” Lester M. Salamon, S. Wojciech Sokolowski, and Stephanie L.

Geller (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Nonprofit Economic Data Project, Bulletin #39, 2012).

4 “Nonprofits Continue to Add Jobs in the Current Downturn, but Rate of Job Growth Falters: An Overview.” Lester M. Salamon, S.

Wojciech Sokolowski, and Stephanie L. Geller (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Nonprofit Economic Data Project, Bulletin #37, 2011).

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We would especially like to

acknowledge and thank the

following for their assistance in

preparing this report:

Walter Callender, C

Squared Strategy

Cheryl A. Del Pico, New

Roots Providence

Gayle Gifford, Cause &

Effect

David Karoff, Karoff &

Associates

Marti Rosenberg, New Roots

Providence

Members of The Rhode

Island Foundation staff


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THE INITIATIVE FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE

The Initiative for Nonprofit Excellence (INE) builds the capacity of nonprofit organizations so they can better

achieve their missions. We provide tools and information to promote:

Leadership development: workshops, grants, and mentoring to foster strong leadership among

nonprofit executives, staff, and boards, as well as nonprofit emerging leaders.

Organizational development: workshops and technical assistance to improve operations or delivery

services.

Systems development: free tools and resources that inform, educate, systematize, standardize, or

create efficiencies.

Engagement and reflection: informal convenings that promote quality discourse and experiential

learning.

The Rhode Island Foundation launched the Initiative in 2008. Since then, the INE has worked with more than

1,600 individuals and 700 organizations. We embrace collaboration and learning and use evaluation to

continually improve our programs and services. We also offer programs designed for different levels of

participation, depending on the needs of organizations. Online resources, hands-on workshops, and multi-

year capacity-building programs are all available.

Rhode Island Nonprofits At-a-Glance is brought to you by The Initiative

for Nonprofit Excellence at The Rhode Island Foundation.

The Rhode Island Foundation

One Union Station

Providence RI 02903

www.rifoundation.org

www.rifoundation.org/INE

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