Rhode Island Foundation grants nearly $7 million to dozens of nonprofits

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Nonprofits across RI will receive nearly $7 million in grants  

Today’s announcement by the Rhode Island Foundation comes as the deadline to apply for millions of dollars in additional funding nears

Dozens of nonprofits across the state will share nearly $7 million in grants from two new grant programs launched last year as part of the Rhode Island Foundation’s new Five-Year Action Plan, the Foundation announced this morning.

“We are focused on crucial community priorities like civic and cultural life, housing and economic mobility, healthy and strong communities, sustainability, and education and student success,” said David N. Cicilline, the Foundation’s president and CEO.

The Foundation awarded more than $6.5 million from its new Community Priority Grants program, which, provides programmatic and general operating support to organizations and programs that respond to one or more of the Foundation’s community priorities and related focus areas.

The East Bay Community Action Program, the Coalition for a Multilingual Rhode Island, Conexion Latina Newport, the Housing Network of Rhode Island, Mixed Magic Theatre, the Providence Resilience Partnership and the Healthcare Workforce Education Center are among the more than100 nonprofits that received Community Priority grants.

In addition, the Foundation awarded more than $360,000 from its new Capacity Building Grants program, which primarily provides funding to support the infrastructure and/or technical assistance needs of organizations and programs that respond to one or more of the community priorities and related focus areas.

The Blackstone Valley Community Action Program, Mentor Rhode Island, NewportFILM, the Rhode Island Land Trust Council and the Valley Affordable Housing Corp are among the 29 organizations that received Capacity Building grants.

“These grants deliver on the more than one year of community outreach and research that went into developing a blueprint to address the varied and complex challenges the state faces,” said Cicilline.

The full list of grant recipients is posted at rifoundation.org/recentgrantees.  

Capacity Building Grant Recipients
Big Brothers Big Sisters of
Rhode Island
Blackstone Valley Community
Action Program, Inc.
Children’s Friend and Service
Community Care Alliance
Community Libraries of
Providence
DARE – Direct Action for Rights
& Equality
DaVinci Center for Community
Progress
Dorcas International Institute
of Rhode Island
ecoRI, Inc.
Genesis Center
Justice Assistance
Meals on Wheels of RI, Inc.
Mentor Rhode Island
Newport County YANA Club
NewportFILM
The Ocean Foundation
Providence Neighborhood
Planting Program
Providence Promise
Racial and Environmental
Justice Committee
RAMP Real Access Motivates
Progress
Rhode Island News Media
Archive
Rhode Island Land Trust Council
RI Elder Info
Sojourner House
South County Art Association
The Empowerment Factory
Thrive Behavioral Health, Inc.
Towards An Anti-Racist
North Kingstown
Valley Affordable Housing Corp
Community Priority Grant Recipients
134 Collaborative
Acadia Center
Adoption Rhode Island
African Alliance of Rhode Island
Alliance for Community Health
Worker Employers
Alliance of Rhode Island
Southeast Asians for Education
Alliance to Mobilize Our
Resistance – AMOR
American Exchange Project
Audubon Society of Rhode Island
Beautiful Day
Better Lives Rhode Island
Care Transformation
Collaborative of Rhode Island
Community College of
Rhode Island Foundation
Children and Youth Cabinet
Children’s Friend and Service
CISF
City of Central Falls
City of Providence
Climate Jobs Rhode Island
CLOTHES TO KIDS RI
Coalition for a Multilingual
Rhode Island
College Unbound
Community MusicWorks
Comprehensive Community
Action, Inc. (CCAP)
Conexion Latina Newport
Connecting for Children and
Families, Inc.
Conservation Law Foundation
DARE – Direct Action for Rights
& Equality
DaVinci Center for Community
Progress
Dorcas International Institute of
Rhode Island
DownCity Design
East Bay Community Action
Program
ecoRI, Inc.
Educational Center for Arts
& Science
Family Service of Rhode Island, Inc.
Farm Fresh Rhode Island
Fuerza Laboral
Garden Time, Inc.
Genesis Center
Great Schools Partnership, Inc.
Green and Healthy Homes Initiative
Groundwork Rhode Island
Grow Smart Rhode Island
Higher Ground International
Hope & Main
Housing Network of Rhode Island
HousingWorks RI
Jane Addams Resource
Corporation
Junior Achievement of
Rhode Island
Latino Policy Institute
Lit Arts RI
Literacy Volunteers of
Washington County
Man Up, Inc.
Mixed Magic Theatre
& Cultural Events
Movement Education
Outdoors
New England Grassroots
Environment Fund, Inc.
New England Institute
of Technology
Onward We Learn
Open fArms Retreat
Parents Leading for
Educational Equity
Pawtucket Central Falls
Development Corporation
Pocasset Pokanoket Land
Trust Inc.
Project Undercover, Inc.
Providence Promise
Providence Public Library
Providence Resilience
Partnership
Providence Student Union
Providence Youth Student
Movement (PrYSM)
Refugee Development Center
Rhode Island Council for the
Humanities
Rhode Island Environmental
Education Association (RIEEA)
Rhode Island Hospital
Rhode Island Instructional
Leadership Academy (RIILA)
Rhode Island Land Trust Council
Rhode Island Office of the
Postsecondary Commissioner
Rhode Island Parent Information
Network
Rhode Island School for
Progressive Education
Rhode Island Wellness
Foundation
RI Coalition for Children &
Families, Inc.
State of Rhode Island – Secretary of
State Gregg M. Amore
Save The Bay
Seed to Seed Farm School
Sista Fire
Social Enterprise Greenhouse
Sojourner House
Southside Community Land Trust
Sunrise Forever, Inc.
The Economic Progress Institute
The Elisha Project
Financial Literacy Youth Initiative
The Healthcare Workforce
Education Center
The Hope Academy
The Manton Avenue Project
The Nature Conservancy
Turning Around Ministries, Inc.
University of Rhode Island
Foundation & Alumni
Engagement
Urban Perinatal Education
Center
WattsNatural Tutoring
Wellbeing Collaborative
West Elmwood Housing
Development Corp.
Wilbury Theatre Group
Women’s Development Corp.
Women’s Fund of Rhode Island
Woonsocket Prevention
Coalition Corporation,
dba the Blackstone Valley
Prevention Coalition
Year Up
YMCA of Pawtucket

With this second round of Community Priority and Capacity Building grants, the Foundation has awarded $13.6 million since launching the new grant programs last July.

The announcement comes as the Jan. 29 deadline for pre-applying for the first round of 2026 funding nears. For more information about applying for a Community Priority or Capacity Building grant, visit rifoundation.org/grants-scholarships.

The Rhode Island Foundation is the largest and most comprehensive funder of nonprofit organizations in Rhode Island. Through civic leadership, fundraising and grant-making activities, together with neighbors and partners, the Foundation is helping to create progress that lasts. Fore more information, visit rifoundation.org.