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Center for Economic Democracy Inc
The center for economic democracy [c.e.d.] is a u.s.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $478k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AIAYNI INSTITUTE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $385k · revenue +73%
- RIRESIST INC5× · 2020–2024 · $340k · revenue +242%
DUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $315k · revenue +213%
Funded once
- GIGREENROOTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +50%
RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCEone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +17%- SESustainable Economies Law Centergraduatedone 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.
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.
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,…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.
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…
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 field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds AYNI INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds RESIST INC ↗
- Who funds DUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN REVIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds BRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT AND SOLIDARITY INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds EASTIE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds LA COLABORATIVA INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK ECONOMIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE IN C ↗
- Who funds PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FII - NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GREENROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds LA COMUNIDAD INC ↗
- Who funds MULTICULTURAL AIDS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE YOUTH STUDENT MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds WOMEN ENCOURAGING EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH ASIAN WORKERS' CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Economies Law Center ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM JUSTICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NEW ECONOMY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds The City School Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LIVELIHOODS KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE NETWORK INC ↗
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.
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.
- Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc — 53% of income from government
- East Boston Social Centers Inc — 50% of income from government
- Roxbury Cultural District Inc — 48% of income from government
- Multicultural Aids Coalition Inc — 41% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- Essex County Community Organization — 15% of income from government
- Eastie Farm Inc — 13% of income from government
- Worcester Roots Project — 12% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Asian Community Development Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Greenroots Inc — 1% of income from government
- Brazilian Women's Group Inc — 0% of income from government
- Asian American Resource Workshop Inc — 0% of income from government
- Community Labor United Inc — 0% of income from government
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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