$450,000 came from Rhode Island Medicaid through the Health System Transformation Project, awarded by EOHHS and RIDOH to the Health Equity Zone (a matching $450,000 went to the Pawtucket Central Falls HEZ; Providence Business News puts the state's total at $900,000 over two years); ONE Neighborhood Builders added $550,000 from Blue Meridian Partners, a private philanthropy. The Providence Post reports that Blue Meridian had given $8 million to the Central Providence HEZ through ONE|NB in 2020, but no document says whether the $550,000 came out of that grant. The state report describes this as the first PB in the nation funded with Medicaid money, which brought its strings: projects had to address social determinants of health, serve low-income and BIPOC residents, be accessible to Medicaid beneficiaries, reach across both ZIP codes, and avoid disallowed expenses (alcohol, loan repayment, memberships, duplicating services already funded by government). The Steering Committee split the money into a large-project pot of $880,000 and a small-project pot of $120,000 with a $30,000 cap per small project. The ballot amounts were honored in full for the eight winners ($880,000 plus four times $30,000), but the bus stop proposal was cut from $253,000 to $132,000 before the vote and contracted amounts ran below ballot amounts (for example $300,000 of $330,000 for water filters). The convener's own running costs were not in the pot.