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RHODE ISLAND BAR FOUNDATION

EIN 05-6009376 CRANSTON, RI

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Revenue 2024
$3,484,268
Expenses 2024
$1,646,238

Program services were 93.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I128
Classification
1200
Street
41 SHARPE DR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

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Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

RHODE ISLAND BAR FOUNDATION'S MISSION IS TO FOSTER AND MAINTAIN THE HONOR AND INTEGRITY OF THE PROFESSION OF LAW AND TO STUDY, IMPROVE AND FACILITATE THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN RHODE ISLAND, AS WELL AS PROMOTE THE STUDY OF LAW, RESEARCH THEREIN AND DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE AND TO PROMOTE HIGH STANDARDS OF LEGAL EDUCATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

RHODE ISLAND BAR FOUNDATION'S MISSION IS TO FOSTER AND MAINTAIN THE HONOR AND INTEGRITY OF THE PROFESSION OF LAW AND TO STUDY, IMPROVE AND FACILITATE THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN RHODE ISLAND, AS WELL AS PROMOTE THE STUDY OF LAW, RESEARCH THEREIN AND DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE AND TO PROMOTE HIGH STANDARDS OF LEGAL EDUCATION. TO SUPORT THE DELIVERY OF LEGAL SERVICES TO THOSE WITHOUT SUFFICIENT MEANS TO SECURE THEM OTHERWISE.

  • CORE PROGRAM - MAINTAINS AND OPERATES A FACILITY THAT RENTS SPACE TO A RELATED NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION, THE RI BAR ASSOCIATION.

    Expenses $176,410

  • THE INTEREST ON LAWYERS TRUST ACCOUNTS - COLLECTS MONEY FROM IOLTA ACCOUNTS FROM RI ATTORNEYS. THE INCOME IS THAN DISTRIBUTED TO OTHER NON PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THAT PROVIDE LEGAL ASSISTANCE TO THE POOR OF RHODE ISLAND, PROMOTE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAW, IMPROVEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION FOR JUSTICE.

    Expenses $1,203,754 · Grants $1,203,754

  • SCHOLARSHIPS

    Expenses $156,000 · Grants $156,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Armando E Batastini

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David N Bazar

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Etie-Lee Schaub

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steven Boyajian

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sonja L Deyoe

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Anne Maxwell Livingston

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jason C Preciphs

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cristen L Raucci

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nicole J Benjamin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lauren E Jones

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Peter L Lewiss

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Honorable Edward H Newman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael A St Pierre

    PAST PRESIDENT DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Richard D'Addario

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Robert G Flanders Jr

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lise M Iwon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sally P McDonald

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nicole Verdi

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Susan Leach Deblasio

    PAST PRESIDENT DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joseph J Roszkowski

    PAST PRESIDENT DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John A Tarantino

    PAST PRESIDENT DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael R McElroy

    PAST PRESIDENT DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Victoria M Almeida

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mark B Morse

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,484,268
    Expenses
    $1,646,238
    Contributions
    $2,725,175
    Grants paid
    $1,359,754
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,939,518
    Expenses
    $1,301,558
    Contributions
    $3,694,773
    Grants paid
    $1,056,262
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,552,390
    Expenses
    $713,041
    Contributions
    $2,339,893
    Grants paid
    $499,113

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,169,825
    Expenses
    $746,159
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,045,389
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $975,173
    Expenses
    $716,261
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,128,655
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,019,312
    Expenses
    $683,384
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,354,302
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $747,586
    Expenses
    $676,733
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,954,166
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $698,517
    Expenses
    $813,000
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,823,319
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $698,517
    Expenses
    $813,000
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,823,319
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $625,028
    Expenses
    $1,763,066
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,966,556
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,888,438
    Expenses
    $909,860
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,014,295
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,437,199
    Expenses
    $667,573
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,289,334
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $751,549
    Expenses
    $652,633
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,544,870

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

  • RI LEGAL SERVICES

    $705,504

    2024 LEGAL HELP FOR THE POOR

  • RI LEGAL SERVICES

    $532,772

    2023 LEGAL HELP FOR THE POOR

  • RI LEGAL SERVICES

    $224,276

    2022 LEGAL HELP FOR THE POOR

  • DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE

    $182,669

    2024 LEGAL HELP FOR IMMIGRANTS

  • DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE

    $175,796

    2023 LEGAL HELP FOR IMMIGRANTS

  • RI BAR ASSOCIATION - ELDERLY PRO BONO

    $123,900

    2024 LEGAL HELP FOR THE ELDERLY

  • DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE

    $100,630

    2022 LEGAL HELP FOR IMMIGRANTS

  • RI BAR ASSOCIATION - ELDERLY PRO BONO

    $91,082

    2023 LEGAL HELP FOR THE ELDERLY

  • JUSTICE ASSISTANCE

    $54,431

    2024 LEGAL ASSISTANCE

  • RI BAR ASSOCIATION - ELDERLY PRO BONO

    $34,182

    2022 LEGAL HELP FOR THE ELDERLY

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.