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Center for Economic Democracy Inc

The center for economic democracy [c.e.d.] is a u.s.

$702k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$196k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Community Improvement$1.7MHuman Services$803kCivil Rights$691kHousing & Shelter$391kEnvironment$157kEducation$150kPublic Safety & Disaster$134kPublic Benefit$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $263k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $426k
$28,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$196,000
CENTER FOR COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT & SOLIDARITY$160,000
UPTOGETHER$70,000
AMAUTA LLC$45,000
ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY & ENVIRONMENT$40,000
URBAN REVIVAL DBA CITY LIFEVIDA URBAN$40,000
CHINATOWN PEOPLE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION$28,000
RESIST-V$24,500
DUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE$23,000
BRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP$22,500
AYNI INSTITUTE$20,000
NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND$20,000
US SOLIDARITY ECONOMY NETWORK$7,200
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOUTH ASIAN WORKER CENTER: $5k → 7%TRUSTEESHIP INSTITUTE: $4k → 14%SHAREABLETIDES CENTER: $9k → 8%UPTOGETHER: $70k → 9%SOUTH ASIAN WORKER CENTER: $25k → 7%PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER: $60k → 12%THE CITY SCHOOL: $23k → 16%PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER: $13k → 12%CHELSEA COLLABORATIVE INC: $87k → 16%CHELSEA COLLABORATIVE INC DBA LA COLABORATIVA: $27k → 16%AYNI INSTITUTE: $20k → 16%AYNI INSTITUTE: $220k → 16%AYNI INSTITUTE: $75k → 16%AYNI INSTITUTE: $30k → 16%ANYI INSTITUTE: $20k → 16%AYNI INSTITUTE: $20k → 16%EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTER: $12k → 16%ROXBURY CULTURAL DISTRICT: $6k → 16%BRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP: $23k → 16%UNION CAPITAL BOSTON: $6k → 16%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS: $50k → 16%BRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP: $75k → 16%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS: $20k → 16%BRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP: $60k → 16%BRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP: $20k → 16%BRAZILIAN WOMAN'S GROUP: $20k → 16%BRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP: $20k → 16%BRAZILIAN WOMAN'S GROUP: $12k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP: $20k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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NY
MA
RI
CA
UT
KY
DC
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 27 repeat orgs$922k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +92% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
34

Total granted

$3.4M
$444k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%
+50%

Still filing today

89%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $478k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentCivil RightsEducationArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AI
    AYNI INSTITUTE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $385k · revenue +73%
  • RI
    RESIST INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $340k · revenue +242%
  • DUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $315k · revenue +213%

Funded once

  • GI
    GREENROOTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +50%
  • RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +17%
  • SE
    Sustainable Economies Law Centergraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $27k · revenue +58%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
United for a Fair Economy Inc

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission

Social Science
3
Wepower

We activate community power to redesign social systems to be just and equitable for all through (1) developing and supporting leaders and organizations and (2) leading campaigns, coalitions, and innovative initiatives.

Community Improvement
4
Brazilian Worker Center Inc

A grassroots, community organization that supports immigrants on issues of workplace rights and immigration. we work with the community, instructing them to execute their rights through organizing, advocacy, education, leadership, capacity…

Human Services
5
Urban Guild Inc

The corporation is organized to improve the quality of life in bostons urban communities by building capacity, environmental health, and providing economic opportunity in a manner that responds directly to community needs, interests, and…

Community Improvement
6
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy

Ebase advances economic, racial and social justice by building a just economy in the east bay on good jobs and healthy communities. we address the root causes of economic injustice by developing strategic alliances amount community, faith…

Public Benefit
7
Urban Impact Initiative Massachusetts

Urban Impact is dedicated to prioritizing the reduction of the impact of poverty for families in the Commonwealth. The organization offers a plethora of small business corporate and community opportunities. These opportunities include…

Youth Development
8
Asian Pacific Environmental Network

APEN builds immigrant and refugee power for a just transition with local roots and statewide impact so all people can live, work, learn, play and thrive in a clean and healthy environment.

Environment
9
Unitarian Universalist Massachusetts Action Network Inc

Our mission is to organize and mobilize Unitarian Universalists in Massachusetts to control oppression. We provide pathways towards justice and identify opportunities in which we can live our values.

Religion
10
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
11
Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
12
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alliance of Community Trainers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr13%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%10%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr18%19%20–35yr14%37%35–55yr13%5%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/68
the rest of the field
12%
7,959/69,135

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 68 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/65
Grantees still filing
48/65
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AYNI INSTITUTE INC — $385,000 · Human ServicesAYNI INSTITUTE INCBRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP INC — $229,500 · Human ServicesBRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP INCLA COLABORATIVA INC — $113,769 · Human ServicesLA COLABORATIVA INCPIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC — $72,917 · Human ServicesPIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENT…NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSAC…FII - NATIONAL — $70,000 · Human ServicesFII - NATIONAL+8 more — $119,609 · Human Services+8 moreRESIST INC — $339,500 · OtherRESIST INCURBAN REVIVAL INC — $243,477 · OtherURBAN REVIVAL INCCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION — $185,000 · OtherCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATIONCENTER FOR POPULAR ECONOMICS INC — $62,500 · OtherAMAUTA LLC — $45,000 · OtherEASTIE FARM INC — $113,792 · OtherEASTIE FARM INC+16 more — $272,177 · Other+16 moreDUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC — $315,000 · Community ImprovementDUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORH…THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $187,872 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAN…ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC — $171,263 · Community ImprovementALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUN…CENTER FOR COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT AND SOLIDARITY INC — $160,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR COOPERATIVE …+7 more — $70,328 · Community Improvement+7 moreCOMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC — $200,619 · Civil RightsCOMMUNITY LAB…NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC — $142,000 · Civil RightsNEIGHBOR TO N…CENTER FOR LABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INC — $118,323 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR LA…RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE — $35,000 · Civil RightsRIGHT TO THE …MUSLIM JUSTICE LEAGUE — $25,000 · Civil RightsCHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC — $196,000 · Arts & CultureMULTICULTURAL AIDS COALITION INC — $38,444 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $200 · Arts & CultureBLACK ECONOMIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE IN C — $112,000 · EducationWOMEN ENCOURAGING EMPOWERMENT INC — $30,762 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $28,513 · EducationSustainable Economies Law Center — $26,651 · EducationNEW STORIES — $9,634 · EducationGREENROOTS INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $22,716 · EnvironmentWORCESTER ROOTS PROJECT — $14,547 · EnvironmentALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY TRAINERS — $9,634 · EnvironmentRESILIENCE NETWORK — $9,634 · EnvironmentTRANSITION US — $5,722 · EnvironmentDaily Acts Organization — $5,156 · Environment+1 more — $2,500 · Environment
Human Services$1,060,795Other$1,261,446Community Improvement$904,463Civil Rights$520,942Arts & Culture$234,644Education$207,560Environment$119,909

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAYNI INSTITUTE INC — $385,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetRESIST INC — $339,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetDUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC — $315,000 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetURBAN REVIVAL INC — $243,477 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetBRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP INC — $229,500 over 7y, 19% of budgetCOMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC — $200,619 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC — $196,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $187,872 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION — $185,000 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC — $171,263 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetCENTER FOR COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT AND SOLIDARITY INC — $160,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC — $142,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetCENTER FOR LABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INC — $118,323 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetEASTIE FARM INC — $113,792 over 2y, 14% of budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC — $113,769 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBLACK ECONOMIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE IN C — $112,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetPIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC — $72,917 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND INC — $70,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetFII - NATIONAL — $70,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREENROOTS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLA COMUNIDAD INC — $41,154 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetMULTICULTURAL AIDS COALITION INC — $38,444 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE — $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROVIDENCE YOUTH STUDENT MOVEMENT — $32,195 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSOUTH ASIAN WORKERS' CENTER INC — $29,798 over 2y, 32% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC — $29,787 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $28,513 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSustainable Economies Law Center — $26,651 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION — $26,602 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMUSLIM JUSTICE LEAGUE — $25,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetNEW ECONOMY COALITION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $22,716 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIVELIHOODS KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE NETWORK INC — $18,535 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetWEAVING EARTH INC — $17,742 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetWORCESTER ROOTS PROJECT — $14,547 over 1y, 18% of budgetHALEY HOUSE INC & AFFILIATES — $13,384 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC — $12,887 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARISE INC — $12,274 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetEAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILIES FOR JUSTICE AS HEALING INC — $11,741 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEmerald Cities Collaborative Inc — $11,261 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRESILIENCE NETWORK — $9,634 over 1y, 16% of budgetNEW STORIES — $9,634 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $8,901 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmpowerment Works Inc — $8,901 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetEGLESTON SQUARE MAIN STREET INC — $7,550 over 1y, 6.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Hyams Foundation IncMA55.2× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyams Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Haymarket People's Fund Inc · Barr Foundation · Resist Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Access Strategies Fund · Third Sector New England Inc · Health Resources in Action Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Center for Economic Democracy Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 200%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc53% of income from government
  • East Boston Social Centers Inc50% of income from government
  • Roxbury Cultural District Inc48% of income from government
  • Multicultural Aids Coalition Inc41% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc34% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Organization15% of income from government
  • Eastie Farm Inc13% of income from government
  • Worcester Roots Project12% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc3% of income from government
  • Asian Community Development Corporation2% of income from government
  • Resist Inc2% of income from government
  • Greenroots Inc1% of income from government
  • Brazilian Women's Group Inc0% of income from government
  • Asian American Resource Workshop Inc0% of income from government
  • Community Labor United Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

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How do I get to Center for Economic Democracy Inc?

Find your warmest path to Center for Economic Democracy Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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