Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Providence, Rhode Island

92
foundations with a Providence address
$202.6M
grants paid, FY2023–FY2025
24
say they accept unsolicited
$10,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 92 foundations that gave a Providence, Rhode Island address on their tax filing — 87 private foundations and 5 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2023–FY2025. Together they paid out $202.6 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 24 of them (26%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Providence foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 92 foundations

Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing, with the ones that accept unsolicited requests first, then the ones whose filing doesn’t say.

Foundations in Providence, Rhode Island
Ralph R Papitto & Barbara A PapittoAccepts$10,000$24.3M$1,000–$2.2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Warren Alpert FoundationAccepts$35,000$24.3M$500–$6.4MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Jonathan M Nelson Family FoundationAccepts$20,000$8.8M$250–$3.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Textron Charitable Trust DTD 122353Accepts$500$4.2M$25–$500,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Collis FoundationAccepts$40,000$2.5M$5,000–$1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Bafflin FoundationAccepts$25,000$1.1M$7,500–$100,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Trimix FoundationAccepts$500,000$1.1M$5,000–$592,471FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Mann Family FoundationAccepts$5,000$875,805$200–$155,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Felicia Fund IncAccepts$5,000$707,200$500–$250,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Fred M Roddy Foundation IncAccepts$49,964$634,316$10,000–$110,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Leonard & Hilda Kaplan CharitableAccepts$25,000$560,000$5,000–$55,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Helene & Bertram BernhardtAccepts$4,500$508,634$500–$254,675FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial TrustAccepts$5,000$422,500$1,500–$40,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Meehan FoundationAccepts$10,000$215,000$3,000–$20,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Fuller Family Charitable TrustAccepts$3,000$200,000$1,000–$10,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
IRA S& Anna Galkin Charitable TRAccepts$2,000$190,522$100–$11,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Sachem FoundationAccepts$50,000$165,000$3,500–$65,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Philip Snyder FoundationAccepts$1,000$114,350$100–$10,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Slingerland FoundationAccepts$30,000$40,000$5,000–$50,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Watkins Burnham FundAccepts$12,500$30,000$5,000–$25,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Abrams-Bell FoundationAccepts$400$20,740$50–$4,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Alexis Bierman Hafken Family FoundationAccepts$35,000$20,000$20,000–$50,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Providence Shelter for Colored ChildrenAccepts$3,000$10,500$2,500–$5,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Providence Charitable Fuel SocietyAccepts$4,250$8,500$2,500–$6,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Rhode Island Community FoundationCommunity foundationNot stated$23,940Over $5k only$76.1M$5,034–$5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from each funder’s grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report. Community foundations and other charities list only grants over $5,000, so their figures run high.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.
  • A median grant larger than the grants paid is not a mistake: the grant schedule and the year’s total come from different parts of the tax filing, and a foundation can list a grant it approved in a year it paid out less.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2023–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.