RILA receives support from these local funders: the Providence Dept. of Art, Culture + Tourism, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Rhode Island Foundation, the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.

Funding in 2022 provided in part by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through the Rhode Island Culture, Humanities, and Arts Recovery Grant (RI CHARG) program. This program was made possible thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts, via funds from the federal American Rescue Plan Act.