Navigant Credit Union
Smithfield, RI · EIN 05-0125860. Reported 103 grants totalling $4,064,630 to 54 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Navigant Credit Union, the IRS classifies it under public & societal benefit rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE W61) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 54 distinct organizations, with 72% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 68% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $13,500; the smallest was $5,159 and the largest $2,500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Navigant Credit Union Charitable Foundation Inc | Smithfield, RI | $2,925,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Providence Performing Arts Center | Providence, RI | $104,725 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Northern Ri | Cumberland, RI | $80,250 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Blackstone Valley Tourism Council Inc | Central Falls, RI | $52,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bryant University | Smithfield, RI | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Cranston, RI | $35,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jeanne Jugan Residence of the Little Sisters of the Poor Inc | Pawtucket, RI | $32,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket | Pawtucket, RI | $32,050 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Leadership Rhode Island Educational Foundation | Providence, RI | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rhode Island Hispanic Chamber of Commerce | Providence, RI | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Special Olympics Rhode Island Inc | Smithfield, RI | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre | Warwick, RI | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Pawt Ri | Pawtucket, RI | $29,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Childrens Wish Group of Ri Inc | Warwick, RI | $26,600 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Blackstone Valley Community Health Care Inc | Pawtucket, RI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Museum of Work and Culture Preservation Foundation | Woonsocket, RI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Salve Regina University | Newport, RI | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Sentinel Media Group | Smithfield, RI | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Teall Properties Group LLC | Charlotte, NC | $23,643 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Northern Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce | Lincoln, RI | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Raphael Academy | Pawtucket, RI | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Prout School | Wakefield, RI | $21,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Stadium Theatre Foundation | Woonsocket, RI | $20,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Entrepreneurship for All Inc | Lowell, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | Warwick, RI | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Trinity Repertory Company | Providence, RI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Light Foundation | Greenville, OH | $19,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| City of Pawtucket | Pawtucket, RI | $19,250 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Greater Providence Young Mens Christian Association | Providence, RI | $18,300 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The City of Central Falls Parks and Recreation Department | Central Falls, RI | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Heart Association Inc | Dallas, TX | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ocean State Media Group | Providence, RI | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rosemarys Wish Kids Inc | Tiverton, RI | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| St Teresa-Pawtucket | Pawtucket, RI | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Brain Injury Association of Rhode Island | East Provindence, RI | $14,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Central Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce Inc | Warwick, RI | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cooperative Credit Union Association Inc | Marlborough, MA | $12,375 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Bishop Hendricken High School Corp | Warwick, RI | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rhode Island Mortgage Bankers Association Inc | Providence, RI | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Blithewold Inc | Bristol, RI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Emerge Camps LLC | Providence, RI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pawtucket Central Falls Development Corporation | Pawtucket, RI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Learning Community Charter School Inc | Jersey City, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Way of Rhode Island Inc | Providence, RI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Save the Bay Inc | Providence, RI | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Butler Hospital Foundation | Providence, RI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rhode Island Hospital Foundation | Providence, RI | $7,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Meals on Wheels of Ri Inc | Providence, RI | $6,728 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greater Providence-Warwick Convention and Visitors Bureau | Providence, RI | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sojourner House | Providence, RI | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Salvation Army | West Nyack, NY | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tides Family Services Inc | West Warwick, RI | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Scholarship America Inc | Providence, RI | $5,300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| East Greenwich Chamber of Commerce | Greenwich, RI | $5,159 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
33 of 54 (61%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 31 of 54 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 22 | $2,750,000 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 37 | $802,725 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 36 | $397,137 | $7,687 |
| 2024 | 8 | $114,768 | $12,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
97% of its giving went to organizations in Rhode Island. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Rhode Island.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Navigant Credit Union's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 6 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1005 Douglas Pike, Smithfield, RI, 02917.
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