Rhode Island

State programs

32

Local offices

86

Nonprofits

9

Food sites

0

Services by kind of help

• Housing27
• Money24
• Education18
• Care17
• Work15
• Food13
• Legal help10
• Health9
• Safety2
• Other1

• We read official pages and trusted lists: county and city websites, state agencies, Feeding America, the Legal Services Corporation and community action networks.
• A research file counts only when it passes the same checks it must pass to reach Front Door. A file with a problem waits until it is fixed.
• Every service and organization names the page it came from and the day we read it.
• We rebuild the files with every release of Front Door. The API reads only these files, never our live database.

Each HSDS table, how many rows it has, and the fields we fill in. The free sample has the same fields.

• organizations109 rows, 13 in the sample

  id, name, alternate_name, description, website

• services136 rows, 14 in the sample

  id, organization_id, name, alternate_name, description, url, status, application_process, eligibility_description, assured_date

• locations87 rows, 10 in the sample

  id, location_type, organization_id, name, description, latitude, longitude

• service_at_locations95 rows, 10 in the sample

  id, service_id, location_id

• phones236 rows, 25 in the sample

  id, number, extension, service_id, location_id, organization_id

• schedules0 rows, 0 in the sample

  id, service_id, location_id, freq, byday, opens_at, closes_at, description, notes

• addresses87 rows, 10 in the sample

  id, location_id, address_1, city, state_province, postal_code, country, address_type

• service_areas162 rows, 18 in the sample

  id, service_id, name, description

• languages0 rows, 0 in the sample

  id, service_id, name

• taxonomies3 rows, 3 in the sample

  id, name, description, uri, version

• taxonomy_terms31 rows, 31 in the sample

  id, code, name, description, taxonomy, taxonomy_id

• attributes985 rows, 106 in the sample

  id, link_id, link_type, link_entity, taxonomy_term_id, value

• No food pantries or meal sites for Rhode Island yet.
• Changes made by organizations that claimed their listing, and links we fixed after a check, reach these files later.
• Hours are listed for food sites. For offices and programs, call or check the source page.
• The API has no full-text search, ZIP code or distance filters yet. The files cover bulk use.

Please credit Front Door and say which release you used.

Front Door (localcarehub.org). Human services in Rhode Island, HSDS 3.3.1, release 2026-10-10. CC BY 4.0. https://localcarehub.org/open-data/rhode-island

@misc{frontdoor_hsds_ri_20261010,
  author = {{Front Door}},
  title = {Human services in Rhode Island, HSDS 3.3.1, release 2026-10-10},
  year = {2026},
  note = {HSDS 3.3.1. CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://localcarehub.org/open-data/rhode-island}
}

Our own research is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0: the offices, the state programs, the descriptions we write and how we match records to kinds of help. Records from public sources keep their source's terms, and each one names its source. Check the source before you rely on a record.