· Public charity
Greenroots Inc
Greenroots works to achieve environmental justice and greater quality of life through collective action, unity, education and youth leadership across neighborhoods and communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $605,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $633,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $27,500 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $62k
- $250k+1 grant · $520k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF CHELSEA | $520,000 |
| REVIVAL INTERNATIONAL CENTER CHELSEA | $15,000 |
| YOUTH ELEMENTO | $15,000 |
| THEATREZONE INC DBA APOLLINAIRE THEATRE COMPANY | $12,000 |
| CHELSEA COLLAB - LA COLABORATIVA | $10,000 |
| CHELSEA BLACK COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| CHELSEA COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS | $8,000 |
| STORIES INSPIRING MOVEMENTS | $8,000 |
| JEWISH CHELSEA MUSEUM INC | $7,500 |
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 human-services grants (FY19–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Masscreative advocates for a well-resourced and equitable creative sector essential to the economic and civic vibrancy of massachusetts. working with its organizational and individual members, masscreative advances the public policy,…
Ace builds the power of communities of color and low-income communities in massachusetts to eradicate environmental racism and classism, create healthy, sustainable communities, and achieve environmental justice.
The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.
The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
At the intersection of racial equity and climate resilience, the boston food forest coalition is a community of neighbors transforming vacant lots into public edible parks called "food forests" for permanent protection and community…
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Third Sector New England Inc and the most unlike its peers is Theatrezone Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 17 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 COMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SUFFOLK COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THEATREZONE INC ↗
- Who funds LA COLABORATIVA INC ↗
- Who funds CHELSEA BLACK COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds RESIST INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THEHARBORKEEPERS ↗
- Who funds MAVERICK LANDING COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds ZUMIX INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds EASTIE FARM 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · The East Boston Foundation · Health Resources in Action Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation
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 Greenroots 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- North Suffolk Community Services Inc — 63% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- Mystic River Watershed Association Inc — 18% of income from government
- Maverick Landing Community Services Inc — 15% of income from government
- Eastie Farm Inc — 13% of income from government
- Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health Inc — 11% of income from government
- Zumix Inc — 5% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Theatrezone Inc — 3% of income from government
- Chelsea Black Community — 3% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Community Labor United 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.
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