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Grassroots Leadership Inc

Transforming the narrative of criminalization: an abolitionist approach. Ending the reliance on the private prison industry decarceration: advocating for policies that reduce the prison population, such as bail reform and funding alternative approaches like diversion programs. Re-imagining public safety: challenging the idea that prisons…

$289k
Granted FY2019
1
Grants FY2019
1
Organizations funded FY2019
100%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$284,240
Largest grant, FY2019
$284,240
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1
Total assets, FY2019
$3.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 100% of the organizations Grassroots Leadership Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $284k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
Youth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20191$284k100%
FY20183$118k67%
FY20171$28kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Youth Development$284kCivil Rights$115kReligion$30k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Youth Rise Texas Inc$284,2401n/a
Freedom for Immigrants$60,00016%
Workers Defense Project$55,00021%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.

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About Grassroots Leadership Inc

How much does Grassroots Leadership Inc give?
Grassroots Leadership Inc reported 1 grants totaling $289,240 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Grassroots Leadership Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Youth Development (66%), Civil Rights (27%), Religion (7%).
Who are Grassroots Leadership Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Youth Rise Texas Inc ($284k), Freedom for Immigrants ($60k), Workers Defense Project ($55k).
Does Grassroots Leadership Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Grassroots Leadership Inc based?
Grassroots Leadership Inc is based in TX.

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 4 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $14k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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