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Center for Economic Democracy Inc

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

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$288k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Community Improvement$1.7MHuman Services$803kCivil Rights$691kHousing & Shelter$391kEnvironment$157kEducation$150kPublic Safety & Disaster$134kPublic Benefit$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $226k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $600k
  • $250k+2 grants · $548k
$70,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RESIST$288,000
NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND$260,000
FAMILIES FOR JUSTICE AS HEALING$165,000
BRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP$85,000
BEYOND BOND AND LEGAL DEFENSE FUND$80,000
HOME COALITION OF GREATER BROCKTON INC$70,000
URBAN REVIVAL DBA CITY LIFEVIDA URBAN$70,000
ARISE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE$70,000
HAVEN OF HOPE$60,000
DUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE$40,000
SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$40,000
ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP$40,000
PIONEER VALLEY WORKER CENTER INC$40,000
BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$30,000
CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOUTH ASIAN WORKER CENTER: $5k → 7%TRUSTEESHIP INSTITUTE: $4k → 14%PIONEER VALLEY WORKER CENTER INC: $40k → 17%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%BEYOND BOND AND LEGAL DEFENSE FUND: $80k → 8%AYNI INSTITUTE: $20k → 16%AYNI INSTITUTE: $220k → 16%AYNI INSTITUTE: $75k → 16%AYNI INSTITUTE: $30k → 16%AYNI INSTITUTE: $20k → 16%ANYI 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: $85k → 16%BRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP: $75k → 16%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS: $20k → 16%BRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP: $60k → 16%BRAZILIAN WOMAN'S GROUP: $20k → 16%BRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP: $20k → 16%BRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP: $20k → 16%BRAZILIAN WOMAN'S GROUP: $12k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP: $40k → 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
RI
CA
UT
KY
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 31 repeat orgs$822k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +104% since the first grant, against +51% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
35

Total granted

$4.8M
$542k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+104%
+51%

Still filing today

90%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $280k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentCivil RightsEducationHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RI
    RESIST INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $628k · revenue +242%
  • NT
    NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $402k · revenue +281%
  • AI
    AYNI INSTITUTE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $385k · revenue +185%

Funded once

  • FII - NATIONAL
    one grant, 2024 · $70k · revenue -29%
  • GI
    GREENROOTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +50%
  • AL
    AMAUTA LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $45k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
United for a Fair Economy Inc

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

Social Science
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education
10
The Network for Social Justice Inc

To foster a movement of systemic change to advance equity and inclusion in winchester and beyond.

Civil Rights
11
Chicago United for Equity

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

Civil Rights
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 73 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/68
Grantees still filing
49/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RESIST INC: $627,500 · OtherRESIST INCURBAN REVIVAL INC: $313,477 · OtherURBAN REVIVAL INCCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $185,000 · OtherCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATIONFAMILIES FOR JUSTICE AS HEALING INC: $176,741 · OtherFAMILIES FOR JUSTICE AS HEALING INCARISE INC: $82,274 · OtherHOME COALITION OF GREATER BROCKTON: $70,000 · OtherEASTIE FARM INC: $113,792 · OtherEASTIE FARM INC+19 more: $485,662 · Other+19 moreAYNI INSTITUTE INC: $385,000 · Human ServicesAYNI INSTITUTE INCBRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP INC: $314,500 · Human ServicesBRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP IN…LA COLABORATIVA INC: $113,769 · Human ServicesLA COLABORATIVA INCPIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC: $112,917 · Human ServicesPIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CEN…BEYOND BOND AND LEGAL DEFENSE: $80,000 · Human ServicesBEYOND BOND AND LEGAL DEFE…FII - NATIONAL: $70,000 · Human ServicesFII - NATIONALNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSA…ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC: $69,787 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WO…+7 more: $89,822 · Human Services+7 moreDUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC: $355,000 · Community ImprovementDUDLEY STREET NEIGH…THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $187,872 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW EN…CENTER FOR COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT AND SOLIDARITY INC: $175,616 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR COOPERAT…ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC: $171,263 · Community ImprovementALTERNATIVES FOR CO…+7 more: $70,328 · Community Improvement+7 moreNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC: $402,000 · Civil RightsNEIGHBOR TO NEI…COMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC: $200,619 · Civil RightsCOMMUNITY LABOR…CENTER FOR LABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INC: $118,323 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR LABO…RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE: $35,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $25,000 · Civil RightsCHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $216,000 · 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
Other$2,054,446Human Services$1,305,795Community Improvement$960,079Civil Rights$780,942Arts & Culture$254,644Education$207,560Environment$119,909

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRESIST INC: $627,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC: $402,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetAYNI INSTITUTE INC: $385,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetDUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC: $355,000 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetBRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP INC: $314,500 over 8y, 19% of budgetURBAN REVIVAL INC: $313,477 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetCHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $216,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetCOMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC: $200,619 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $187,872 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $185,000 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetFAMILIES FOR JUSTICE AS HEALING INC: $176,741 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT AND SOLIDARITY INC: $175,616 over 2y, 51% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC: $171,263 over 5y, 5.3% 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 budgetPIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC: $112,917 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetBLACK ECONOMIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE IN C: $112,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetARISE INC: $82,274 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetFII - NATIONAL: $70,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND INC: $70,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC: $69,787 over 3y, 2.7% 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 budgetBOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSOUTH ASIAN WORKERS' CENTER INC: $29,798 over 2y, 32% 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 budgetNEW ECONOMY COALITION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMUSLIM JUSTICE LEAGUE: $25,000 over 1y, 9.4% 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 budgetEAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEmerald Cities Collaborative Inc: $11,261 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEW STORIES: $9,634 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetRESILIENCE NETWORK: $9,634 over 1y, 16% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $8,901 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmpowerment Works Inc: $8,901 over 1y, 6.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Hyams Foundation …Boston Foundation IncHaymarket People's Fu…Barr FoundationResist IncAmalgamated Charitabl…Proteus Fund IncJosephine and Louise …Eastern Bank Foundati…The Access Strategies…Third Sector New Engl…Health Resources in A…
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Center for Economic Democracy Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Economic Democracy Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home