Massachusetts · Public charity
Grassroots International Inc
To connect people in the u.s. With global movements that defend land, territory, water, food, seeds and the earth. Together we address the root causes of injustice and oppression, and build alternatives that nuture human rights, ecological justice, and liberation. We do this through grantmaking, social action, and philanthropic…
- $10M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
87% of Grassroots International Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Impactassetsinc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 15 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Grassroots International Inc named its own grantees at scale: 20 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.5M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $412,900
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 72
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $23M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Grassroots International Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 20 | $1.3M | 5% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $1.5M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $2.7M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $1.6M | 32% |
| FY2020 | 72 | $3.0M | 46% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $794k | 55% |
| FY2018 | 52 | $1.6M | 90% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $88k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apoyo Legal Al Emprendimiento Comunitario Inc | $1,697,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Grassroots Global Justice | $1,230,020 | 9 | 14% |
| Indigenous Environmental Network | $1,182,654 | 7 | 7% |
| Iala | $1,175,300 | 7 | n/a |
| Coordinadora Paz Para la Mujer Inc | $530,500 | 9 | 10% |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc | $530,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Institute for Socio-Ecological Research | $464,250 | 5 | 21% |
| HASER Inc | $440,300 | 8 | 6% |
| Comedores Sociales de Puerto Rico Inc | $429,150 | 6 | 21% |
| Education For Just Peace in Middle East | $265,000 | 5 | 4% |
Show all 118 grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($90k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Grassroots International Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 88 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Movement Strategy Center · Solutions Project Inc · Windward Fund · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Patagoniaorg · Common Counsel Foundation · Tides Center · The Schmidt Family Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc
How this is measured
About Grassroots International Inc
- How much does Grassroots International Inc give?
- Grassroots International Inc reported 22 itemized grants totaling $1,467,900, out of $10,020,650 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 72 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Grassroots International Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (35%), Food & Nutrition (21%), Civil Rights (19%).
- Who are Grassroots International Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Apoyo Legal Al Emprendimiento Comunitario Inc ($1.7M), Grassroots Global Justice ($1.2M), Indigenous Environmental Network ($1.2M).
- Does Grassroots International Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Grassroots International Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Movement Strategy Center.
- Where is Grassroots International Inc based?
- Grassroots International Inc is based in MA.
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