· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
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.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
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,…
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.
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.
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 massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.
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,…
The corporation is organized to improve the quality of life in bostons urban communities by building capacity, environmental health, and providing economic opportunity in a manner that responds directly to community needs, interests, and…
Mira coalition's mission is to convene, serve, and organize together with our members, community leaders, and allies for the advancement of all immigrants across the commonwealth and beyond. mira coalition places immigrant and refugee…
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds COMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SUFFOLK COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THEATREZONE INC ↗
- Who funds CHELSEA BLACK COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds LA COLABORATIVA INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds RESIST 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Greenroots Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greenroots Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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