Friends of Rhode Island Casa Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 050461271
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Cranston, RI, USA
- Phone
- 4014583330
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Abuse, Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $56,991
- Expenses
- $33,623
- Assets
- $201,318
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERT RAGOSTA (PRESIDENT)
- DAVID DECUBELLIS (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ROBERT RAGOSTA (PRESIDENT)
- DAVID DECUBELLIS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DAVID DIMAIO (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Assisting, advising and providing education programs for abused and neglected children.
What it reported doing in 2025
Dreams come true - the dreams come true fund raises and administers funds to purchase basic items of daily living that are urgently needed by children and youth served by the Rhode Island casa program, and to provide funds not otherwise available to cover fees/costs for activities and items that support their social, emotional, and educational development.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 63% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 26
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 22.7%; rating input score 23
- Program expense ratio: 31.2%; rating input score 31
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 41%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.99; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.6% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.5% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 22.7% of revenue deployed · 31.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.