· Public charity
New England Grassroots Environment Fund Inc
To support grassroots environmental work.
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 25 grants below total $760,621 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,190,717 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $430,096 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
- Under $10k9 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $363k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $329k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WHYHUNGER INC | $98,000 |
| ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP | $64,500 |
| SANKOFA COOPERATIVES | $56,000 |
| POCASSET POKANOCKET LAND TRUST | $55,000 |
| CLICK INC | $55,000 |
| VITAL COMMUNITIES INC | $44,475 |
| THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND | $43,900 |
| FOUR CORNERS MAIN STREET INC | $40,800 |
| TIDES ADVOCACY | $40,755 |
| AYNI INSTITUTE INC | $36,166 |
| BRUNSWICK-TOPSHAM LAND TRUST INC | $35,700 |
| VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND | $34,450 |
| KEARSARGE FOOD HUB | $31,250 |
| MOUNT WASHINGTON VALLEY PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION | $26,775 |
| LIBERATION ECOSYSTEM INC | $15,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–24, $379k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
45 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 8 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k 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
- NCNORTH COUNTRY ALLIANCE FOR BALANCED CHANGE6× · 2017–2022 · $207k · revenue +274% · 71% of their budget
- TATIDES ADVOCACY3× · 2022–2024 · $116k · revenue +4%
- ABA BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC4× · 2017–2023 · $112k · revenue +898%
Funded once
THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INCone grant, 2023 · $56k · revenue +1%
AFRICAN ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLANDone grant, 2022 · $56k · revenue +2%- BIBLACK INFINITY COLLECTIVE INCone grant, 2022 · $41k
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.
NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.
ROOTS is a community-engaged 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to promoting food security and agricultural education in K-12 programs. We make healthy food accessible and affordable to low-income families. We work with Connecticut farmers,…
To bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social…
To grow food justice in Greater Portland by providing education, resources, and opportunities to cultivate and share culturally familiar food.
To build resillient communities in central New Hampshire by providing access to sustainable local energy and local food leading to economic stability, a clean environment and healthy living.
The mission of Massachusetts Avenue Project is to nurture the growth of a diverse and equitable community food system and promote local economic opportunities, access to affordable, nutritious food and social-change education.
Development in Gardening is improving the nutrition and livelihoods of some of the world's most uniquely marginalized people by teaching them to plant regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
working with communities facing economic or environmental injustice, training and empowering youth, supporting development of related urban worker cooperatives. We re-established youth programming.
MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate crisis. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate conversation and…
Founded in 2009 the Organization exists to lead our communities through the climate emergency, empowering Woodstock and the rest of the Upper Valley to meet climate commitments and live sustainably through advocacy, education and…
Groundwork rhode island (gwri) is a community-based organization helping build healthier, more resilient, and more equitable urban communities in rhode island by improving the physical environment and creating economic opportunities for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eastie Farm Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Garden Society Ltd. 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 14 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% 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.
93 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. 93 of the 143 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 NORTH COUNTRY ALLIANCE FOR BALANCED CHANGE ↗
- Who funds WHYHUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds A BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds AYNI INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTS 2EMPOWER ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE WINDOW DRESSERS INC ↗
- Who funds POCASSET POKANOKET LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds BROCKTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds CLICK INC ↗
- Who funds KEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND (AARI) ↗
- Who funds Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUR CORNERS MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT WASHINGTON VALLEY PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Sonrisas Inc ↗
- Who funds VITAL COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK INFINITY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds EASTIE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds WINDHAM REGIONAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Resources for Organizing and Social Change ↗
- Who funds WOMEN ENCOURAGING EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS RELIEF ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds TINY SEED PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds St Mary's Regional Medical Center ↗
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: Haymarket People's Fund Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Henry P Kendall Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · The Hyams Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund
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 New England Grassroots Environment Fund 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.
- Windham Regional Community Council Inc — 76% of income from government
- Worcester Youth Center Inc — 64% of income from government
- Dad Guild Inc — 63% of income from government
- Cooperative Development Institute Inc — 58% of income from government
- Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc — 51% of income from government
- Click Inc — 44% of income from government
- Keney Park Sustainability Project — 37% of income from government
- Monitor My Health Inc — 36% of income from government
- Level Ground Mixed Martial Arts Inc — 19% of income from government
- Nourish Bridgeport Inc — 19% of income from government
- Vermont Council On Rural Development Inc — 17% of income from government
- Sociedad Latina Inc — 15% of income from government
- Art Council of Greater New Haven Inc — 14% of income from government
- Eastie Farm Inc — 13% of income from government
- Intervale Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Neighborhood Housing Services of Waterbury Inc — 8% of income from government
- Huneebee Project Inc — 8% of income from government
- Vital Communities Inc — 5% of income from government
- Indian Orchard Citizens Council Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Nolumbeka Project Inc — 5% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Transformative Culture Project Inc F/K/a Press Pass Tv Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sonrisas Inc — 1% of income from government
- Greenroots Inc — 1% of income from government
- Asian American Resource Workshop Inc — 0% of income from government
- Migrant Justice 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.