Rhode Island does not require member or manager names in its own public LLC filing. Rhode Island already omits member names from a member-managed LLC's Articles of Organization; a Wyoming parent's value here is cleaning up the organizer field and addressing Rhode Island's apparent single-member foreclosure gap — though a Wyoming LLC as sole member doesn't by itself change the Rhode Island LLC's single-member status under that specific statute. See our Wyoming holding company guide and full list of anonymous LLC states for more.
$150
Articles of Organization filing fee (Form 400)
Member-managed = none
No member names if member-managed; managers named if manager-managed
§ 7-16-37
Charging order available, not exclusive — weaker for single-member LLCs
$50/yr
Annual Report due February 1 – May 1
Rhode Island is a partial-privacy state on its own filing: a member-managed LLC's Form 400 ($150) doesn't ask for member names, though it does require manager names if you elect manager-managed status, and the organizer and principal office address are always public. The bigger issue for a single-owner structure isn't disclosure — it's Rhode Island's uncertain single-member asset protection. R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-16-37 is not written as an exclusive remedy, and secondary sources describe an apparent carve-out letting a foreclosure-sale purchaser become a full member when the LLC has one owner, paralleling Pennsylvania's confirmed rule, with a 2026 bill (H.7477) pending that could change this. A Wyoming holding LLC here is less about hiding a name Rhode Island wasn't going to publish anyway and more about cleaning up the organizer field and, potentially with a second member added, addressing that asset-protection gap.
Rhode Island's Form 400 does not ask for member names when the LLC is member-managed — that election, plus the organizer's name and the principal office address, is what reaches the public business.sos.ri.gov database. But Form 400 does require the name and address of every manager if you check the manager-managed box, so the privacy-preserving choice is to stay member-managed. The organizer — whoever signs and submits the filing — is captured on the record either way, which is why a formation service typically fills that role rather than the owner.
Because a member-managed Rhode Island LLC already omits member names entirely, naming a Wyoming holding LLC as the member doesn't fix a privacy gap the way it does in a true disclosure state — Rhode Island's filing wouldn't have shown an individual's name either way. What a Wyoming parent does add here is real: the organizer field is always public, so routing that role through a formation service (not the owner, and not necessarily the Wyoming LLC itself) keeps a signature off the record, and — more importantly — Rhode Island's own asset-protection picture is genuinely uncertain for a single-member LLC. Secondary sources describe R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-16-37 as letting a foreclosure-sale purchaser become a full member when the LLC has only one owner, paralleling Pennsylvania's confirmed carve-out, though the exact statutory subsection needs verification and a 2026 bill (H.7477) may change the law. Simply naming a Wyoming LLC as the sole member does not, by itself, convert the Rhode Island LLC out of single-member status for that statute — if escaping this specific exposure is the goal, discuss a genuinely multi-member structure (the Wyoming LLC plus a second member) with an attorney rather than assuming a holding layer alone solves it.
Whatever Rhode Island's filing shows, the LLC's beneficial owners — and any Wyoming holding LLC's owners — must still be reported to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act, which is not a public database.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-16-37 — charging order available (assignee rights only), not written as an exclusive remedy — and likely weaker still for single-member LLCs specifically, pending verification. R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-16-37 gives a judgment creditor only the rights of an assignee of the membership interest, but the statute is not framed as an exclusive remedy the way Wyoming's is. Secondary-source summaries go further, describing a single-member carve-out — paralleling Pennsylvania's § 8853(f) — where a foreclosure-sale purchaser can become a full member if the LLC has just one owner. The exact operative subsection language could not be confirmed against primary source text, and a 2026 bill (H.7477) has been proposed to update Rhode Island's LLC charging-order provisions, so treat this as a live, unsettled area rather than a confirmed weakness or protection.
Rhode Island requires a $50 Annual Report filed between February 1 and May 1 each year (a fixed window, not tied to formation date), with a $25 late fee if missed. Rhode Island has a graduated personal income tax — 3.75%, 4.75%, and 5.99% across three 2026 brackets — and pending 2026 legislation would add a 3% surtax on Rhode Island taxable income over $625,000, though this has not been confirmed enacted.
Note: Confirm the $150 Form 400 filing fee and $50 Annual Report fee directly at business.sos.ri.gov. The single least-settled fact on this page is Rhode Island's apparent single-member foreclosure carve-out under § 7-16-37 — the exact statutory subsection could not be confirmed against primary text this cycle, and a pending 2026 bill (H.7477) may change the charging-order landscape before this guide's next review.
Only manager names, and only if you elect manager-managed status. A member-managed Rhode Island LLC's Form 400 does not require member names — but the organizer (whoever signs the filing) and the principal office address are always part of the public record at business.sos.ri.gov.
Mainly for the organizer field and for asset protection. Rhode Island's charging-order statute, R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-16-37, is not an exclusive remedy, and secondary sources describe an apparent single-member foreclosure carve-out — a Wyoming parent (potentially with a genuinely multi-member structure) is often used to address that gap rather than a privacy gap Rhode Island doesn't really have on the member side.
Treat it as unsettled rather than confirmed either way. Secondary sources describe § 7-16-37 as letting a foreclosure-sale purchaser become a full member when the LLC has one owner, similar to Pennsylvania's rule, but the exact statutory language needs verification, and a 2026 bill (H.7477) may change Rhode Island's charging-order provisions before this is fully settled.
Bottom line: Rhode Island already keeps member names off a member-managed LLC's filing, so a Wyoming parent's real value here is the organizer field and Rhode Island's unsettled single-member foreclosure exposure under § 7-16-37 — not member-name privacy Rhode Island already provides.