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Cooperative Fund of New England Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Cooperative Fund of New England Inc

Cfne's mission is to work for economic, social, and racial justice by advancing community based, cooperative, and democratically owned or managed enterprises.

$377k
Granted FY2021
36
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2021 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 36 grants below total $356,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $376,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $350k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$61M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNBOUND LANGUAGE JUSTICE COOPERATIVE$10,000
OFF BEET COMPOSTING LLC$10,000
WELLSPRING UPHOLSTERY CORPORATION$10,000
COLLECTIVE COPIES INC$10,000
RIA BREWING INC$10,000
THE COMPOST COOPERATIVE INC$10,000
REAL PICKLES COOPERATIVE INC$10,000
ARTISAN BEVERAGE COOPERATIVE$10,000
DOUGHBOYZ BREAKFAST CORPORATION$10,000
PIONEER VALLEY GROWERS ASSOCIATION INC$10,000
BOSTON TECHCOLLECTIVE COOPERATIVE INC$10,000
FRANKLIN COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE CORPORATION$10,000
ENERGIA LLC$10,000
RIQUEZAS DEL CAMPO LLC$10,000
NEIGHBORING FOOD COOPERATIVE$10,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%UNBOUND LANGUAGE JUSTICE COOPERATIVE: $10k → 7%DMA HEALTH STRATEGIES INC: $10k → 8%SHINE TOGETHER CO-OP SERVICES LLC: $10k → 10%WORX PRINTING LLC: $10k → 11%DOWNTOWN SOUNDS WORKERS COOPERATIVE INC: $10k → 12%BERKSHIRE COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION I: $10k → 12%NORTH QUABBIN COMMUNITY CO-OP: $10k → 14%EPLAM COOPERATIVE CONSULTING SERVICE LLC: $10k → 16%WELLSPRING HARVEST CORPORATION: $10k → 17%OFF BEET COMPOSTING LLC: $10k → 8%SOUTHWICK SOCIAL VENTURES LTD: $10k → 10%WORCESTER BOOKKEEPING COOPERATIVE INC: $10k → 11%RIQUEZAS DEL CAMPO LLC: $10k → 12%PIONEER VALLEY GROWERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 14%CLEAN GREEN COOPERATIVE LLC: $10k → 16%CHRONIC TRIPS LLC: $7k → 17%BROADWAY BICYCLE SCHOOL: $10k → 8%DOUGHBOYZ BREAKFAST CORPORATION: $10k → 11%COLLECTIVE COPIES INC: $10k → 12%NEIGHBORING FOOD COOPERATIVE: $10k → 14%COOPERATIVA FAMILIAR TABORKIDS: $10k → 16%WELLSPRING UPHOLSTERY CORPORATION: $10k → 17%BOSTON TECHCOLLECTIVE COOPERATIVE INC: $10k → 8%ACCESS COOPERATIVE INC: $10k → 11%FRANKLIN COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE CORPORATION: $10k → 14%RIA BREWING INC: $10k → 16%CATALYST COOPERATIVE HEALING INC: $10k → 17%CO-EVERYTHING LLC: $10k → 8%REAL PICKLES COOPERATIVE INC: $10k → 14%PUNTADA IMMIGRANT WOMEN SEWING: $10k → 16%ENERGIA LLC: $10k → 17%OLIO CULINARY COOPERATIVE CORPORATION: $10k → 8%ARTISAN BEVERAGE COOPERATIVE: $10k → 14%BOSTON CLEANING COLLECTIVE LLC: $10k → 16%CERO COOPERATIVE INC: $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.
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 field
03the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2021–2021.

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

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2021 to 2021, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 36 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+36 more: $356,500 · Other+36 more
Other$356,500

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Cooperative Fund of New England Inc?

Find your warmest path to Cooperative Fund of New England 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 36 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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