· Public charity
Grassroots International Inc
To connect people in the u.s.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $1,467,900 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,020,650 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,552,750 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k14 grants · $340k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $715k
- $250k+1 grant · $413k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSTITUTO PARA LA INVESTIGACIN Y ACCIN EN AGROECOLOGA | $412,900 |
| TIDES CENTER | $175,000 |
| HASER | $140,000 |
| GLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT | $95,000 |
| US CAMPAIGN FOR PALESTINIAN RIGHTS | $95,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR SOCIO- ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH | $90,000 |
| COMEDORES SOCIALES DE PUERTO RICO | $60,000 |
| FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN COOPERATIVESLAND ASSISTANCE FUND | $60,000 |
| INDIGENOUS ENV NETWORK | $45,000 |
| GRASSROOTS GLOBAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE | $40,000 |
| EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| COLECTIVO IL | $30,000 |
| NATIONAL FAMILY FARM COALITION | $30,000 |
| WHYHUNGER | $30,000 |
| EYEWITNESS PALESTINE | $20,000 |
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 US giving — 60% of grant dollars ($7.9M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 40% that went abroad ($5.2M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $738k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
Beyond the US — 40% of all-years giving ($5.2M)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
Grants abroad, by region — $8.5M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: MENTAL HEALTH · LGBTQ RIGHTS · AGRICULTURAL RECOVER
Stated purpose: INDIGENOUS RIGHTS · HEALTH INITIATIVE · PEOPLES RIGHTS
Stated purpose: INDIGENEOUS RIGHTS · HUMAN RIGHTS · FARMERS RIGHTS
Stated purpose: SMALL FARMERS RIGHTS · RURAL PEOPLES RIGHTS · GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY
Stated purpose: SUSTAINABLE AGRICULT · Womens rights · PROTECTION OF FOREST
Stated purpose: HUMAN RIGHTS · RURAL SUPPORT · LGBTQ RIGHTS
Stated purpose: Education · Indigenous rights · CIVIL RIGHTS
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Grassroots International Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +125% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
- ALAPOYO LEGAL AL EMPRENDIMIENTO COMUNITARIO INC2× · 2022–2023 · $1.7M · revenue ×94
- IEINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +51%
- SASOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC2× · 2020–2021 · $530k · revenue +156%
Funded once
- LCLA COSECHA COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTUREone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +17%
- SFSOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -62%
- NGNATURES GARDEN FOR VICTORY AND PEACE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $49k · revenue +91% · 38% of their budget
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.
Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…
To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.
Greenaction mobilizes community power to win victories that change govenment and corporate policies and practices to protect health and promote environmental, economic and social justice.
Environmental Justice & Equality
The Corporation is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. Earthworks is dedicated to protecting communities and the environment from the impacts of irresponsible mineral and energy development while seeking…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…
The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…
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…
The Central Valley Partnership (CVP) conducts and collaborates in training initiatives, including community organizer training, education on labor history and issues, messaging workshops, etc., aimed at fostering the establishment of new…
Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.
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 Appalachian Development Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
100 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. 100 of the 122 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 APOYO LEGAL AL EMPRENDIMIENTO COMUNITARIO INC ↗
- Who funds INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS GLOBAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds COORDINADORA PAZ PARA LA MUJER INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds HASER Inc ↗
- Who funds COMEDORES SOCIALES DE PUERTO RICO INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds National Save The Family Farm Coalition ↗
- Who funds Education For Just Peace in Middle East ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN COOPERATIVES ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Center for the study of the Americas ↗
- Who funds PUEBLO ORGANIZADO EN DEFENSA DE LA TIERRA Y SUS RECURSOS ↗
- Who funds Fuerza Unida ↗
- Who funds LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO POR LA JUSTICIA ↗
- Who funds COMING CLEAN INC ↗
- Who funds Dream of Wild Health ↗
- Who funds Harambee House Inc ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTURE ↗
- Who funds AGITARTE INC ↗
- Who funds EAST MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds AYUDA LEGAL PUERTO RICO INC ↗
- Who funds WHYHUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds COMITE DE APOYO A LOS TRABAJADORES AGRICOLAS INC ↗
- Who funds AINA MOMONA ↗
- Who funds JUST TRANSITION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND ↗
- Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS 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: 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
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 Grassroots International 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Ironbound Community Corporation — 100% of income from government
- The Education & Training Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Ourspace World 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.