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Grassroots International Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Grassroots International Inc

To connect people in the u.s.

$10M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$413k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

9
’17
52
’18
17
’19
72
’20
22
’21
24
’22
22
’23
20
’24
15
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$4.6MFood & Nutrition$2.7MCivil Rights$2.5MCommunity Improvement$1000kPublic Safety & Disaster$628kEmployment$361kCrime & Legal$295kPublic Benefit$252kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $1,467,900, the rows itemized in this filing. The $10,020,650 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,552,750 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k14 grants · $340k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $715k
  • $250k+1 grant · $413k
$30,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $816k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%THE CENTER POLE: $45k → 23%TIDES CENTER: $175k → 10%DOMESTIC WORKERS UNITED: $10k → 20%LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE INC: $50k → 14%NATURE'S GARDEN FOR VICTORY & PEACE: $49k → 32%HARAMBEE HOUSE: $50k → 16%TIDES CENTER: $74k → 10%Domestic Workers United: $9k → 20%LA COSECHA COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE: $50k → 14%HARAMBEE HOUSE INC: $35k → 16%TIDES CENTER: $70k → 10%DOMESTIC WORKERS UNITED: $9k → 20%LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE: $49k → 14%Tides Center: $50k → 10%DOMESTIC WORKERS UNITED: $8k → 20%TIDES CENTER: $35k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $23k → 10%Tides Center: $15k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $10k → 10%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

AK
VT
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
MD
DE
AZ
NM
TN
DC
HI
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 40% of all-years giving ($5.2M)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Puerto Rico$5.2M · 59 grants
Guam$25k · 1 grant

Grants abroad, by region: $38M on the FY2025 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.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$16M · 41% · 9 grants

Stated purpose: SMALL FARMERS RIGHTS · RURAL PEOPLES RIGHTS · FORESTS & CLIMATE

South America$9.1M · 24% · 18 grants

Stated purpose: INDIGENOUS TERRITORI · SUSTAINABLE AGRICULT · YOUTH LEADERSHIP

Sub-Saharan Africa$7.8M · 21% · 10 grants

Stated purpose: SUSTAINABLE AGRICULT · SUSTAINABLE RURAL · WOMEN-LED ECOLOGICAL

Central America and the Caribbean$2.8M · 7% · 18 grants

Stated purpose: INDIGENOUS RIGHTS · PEOPLES RIGHTS · ECOLOGICAL AGRICULT

Middle East and North Africa$1.7M · 4% · 12 grants

Stated purpose: CHILDRENS HEALTH · MENTAL HEALTH · LGBTQ RIGHTS

North America (Canada and Mexico)$945k · 2% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: GLOBAL WOMENS RIGHT · Indigenous rights · CIVIL RIGHTS

South Asia$40k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RIGHTS OF FISHING

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Grassroots International Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Grassroots International Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 40% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 57 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +125% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
61

Total granted

$12M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+125%
+43%

Still filing today

88%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionEmploymentInternationalOther
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

  • AL
    APOYO LEGAL AL EMPRENDIMIENTO COMUNITARIO INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.7M · revenue ×94
  • IE
    INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +51%
  • CP
    COORDINADORA PAZ PARA LA MUJER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $531k · revenue +292%

Funded once

  • SF
    SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -62%
  • LC
    LA COSECHA COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +17%
  • NG
    NATURES GARDEN FOR VICTORY AND PEACE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $49k · revenue +91% · 38% of their budget
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
California Environmental Justice Alliance

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…

Environment
2
Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice

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.

Environment
3
Educator Collective for Envionmental Justice Inc

Environmental Justice & Equality

Education
4
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
5
Nature for Justice

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.

Environment
6
Earthworks

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…

Public Benefit
7
Center for Contemporary Documentation Inc
Philanthropy
8
Amazon Watch Inc

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…

Environment
9
Central Valley Partnership

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…

Civil Rights
10
Collaborative Earth Institute

We are scientists and engineers, humanists and designers. Coming together across disciplinary and cultural boundaries, we form focused teams to discover and co-create pathways to social and ecological regeneration.

Science & Tech
11
Groundswell International Inc

Groundswell International strenghtens communities to build healthy farming and food systems from the ground up.

International
12
Nw Energy Coalition

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…

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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 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.
05the grantee network

104 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 104 of the 126 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
51
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/104
Grantees still filing
81/104
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IMPACTASSETSINC: $3,000,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACTASSETSINC+1 more: $40,000 · PhilanthropyIALA: $1,175,300 · OtherIALANational Save The Family Farm Coalition: $232,000 · OtherINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $1,182,654 · OtherINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORKHASER Inc: $440,300 · OtherHASER IncCOMEDORES SOCIALES DE PUERTO RICO INC: $429,150 · OtherCOMEDORES SOCIALES DE PUERTO RICO INC+69 more: $3,342,775 · Other+69 morePeace Development Fund: $2,005,000 · InternationalPeace Develop…Education For Just Peace in Middle East: $265,000 · InternationalEducation For…+3 more: $72,000 · InternationalSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $530,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND EN…INSTITUTE FOR SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH: $464,250 · EnvironmentINSTITUTE FOR…Earth Island Institute Inc: $153,000 · EnvironmentEarth Island …GLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT INC: $95,000 · EnvironmentCOMING CLEAN INC: $94,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $90,000 · EnvironmentEAST MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COUNCIL INC: $80,000 · Environment+21 more: $814,500 · Environment+21 moreAPOYO LEGAL AL EMPRENDIMIENTO COMUNITARIO INC: $1,697,500 · Crime & LegalAPOYO LEGA…+1 more: $20,000 · Crime & LegalCOORDINADORA PAZ PARA LA MUJER INC: $530,500 · Human ServicesCOORDINAD…TIDES CENTER: $452,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CEN…LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE: $99,000 · Human ServicesLA PLAZIT…Harambee House Inc: $85,000 · Human ServicesHarambee …COOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI: $74,000 · Human ServicesCOLECTIVO ILE CORPORACION: $60,000 · Human Services+6 more: $225,000 · Human Services+6 moreGRASSROOTS GLOBAL JUSTICE: $1,230,020 · Civil Rights+2 more: $50,000 · Civil Rights
Philanthropy$3,040,000Other$6,802,179International$2,342,000Environment$2,320,750Crime & Legal$1,717,500Human Services$1,525,500Civil Rights$1,280,020

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPeace Development Fund: $2,005,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetGRASSROOTS GLOBAL JUSTICE: $1,230,020 over 9y, 14% of budgetINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $1,182,654 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetCOORDINADORA PAZ PARA LA MUJER INC: $530,500 over 9y, 10% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $530,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH: $464,250 over 5y, 21% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $452,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHASER Inc: $440,300 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetCOMEDORES SOCIALES DE PUERTO RICO INC: $429,150 over 6y, 21% of budgetEducation For Just Peace in Middle East: $265,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetNational Save The Family Farm Coalition: $232,000 over 8y, 10.0% of budgetFEDERATION OF SOUTHERN COOPERATIVES: $175,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $153,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for the study of the Americas: $140,000 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetCENTRO PARA LA RECONSTRUCCION DEL HABITAT: $130,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAGITARTE INC: $120,000 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetFuerza Unida: $104,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetPUEBLO ORGANIZADO EN DEFENSA DE LA TIERRA Y SUS RECURSOS: $104,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetAYUDA LEGAL PUERTO RICO INC: $100,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetGLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT INC: $95,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetCENTRO POR LA JUSTICIA: $94,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetCOMING CLEAN INC: $94,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $90,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDream of Wild Health: $89,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetHarambee House Inc: $85,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTURE: $84,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetEAST MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COUNCIL INC: $80,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetWHYHUNGER INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAINA MOMONA: $74,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetJUST TRANSITION ALLIANCE: $74,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetCOMITE DE APOYO A LOS TRABAJADORES AGRICOLAS INC: $74,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetCOOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI: $74,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC: $72,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $70,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $69,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFarmworker Association of Florida Inc: $69,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetNATIVE MOVEMENT: $65,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetEAST YARD COMMUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: $64,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetGWICHIN STEERING COMMITTEE: $64,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetCOLECTIVO ILE CORPORACION: $60,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetUPROSE INC: $58,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE INC: $55,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $54,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHWEST RESEARCH & INFORMATION CENTER: $54,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLA COSECHA COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMiami Workers Center Inc: $49,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetNATURES GARDEN FOR VICTORY AND PEACE INC: $49,000 over 1y, 38% 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.

Social and Environmen…Amalgamated Charitabl…Movement Strategy Cen…Solutions Project IncWindward FundNatural Resources Def…PatagoniaorgCommon Counsel Founda…Tides CenterThe Schmidt Family Fo…United States Energy …Rsf Social Finance Inc
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) IncCA108.7× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Grassroots International Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grassroots International Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
21report 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.

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 126 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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