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New England Grassroots Environment Fund Inc

To support grassroots environmental work.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$98k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Environment$3.6MFood & Nutrition$252kHuman Services$72kHousing & Shelter$43kCrime & Legal$40kCivil Rights$36kHealth$31kYouth Development$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

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
$31,250
Median grant
9
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 9%YWCA Greater Newburyport: $6k → 10%Roots 2 Empower: $8k → 14%Sisters Unchained The City School: $6k → 16%ROOTS 2 EMPOWER: $56k → 14%ROOTS 2 EMPOWER: $18k → 14%Maine Immigrant & Refugee Services: $6k → 13%AYNI INSTITUTE INC: $40k → 16%AYNI INSTITUTE INC: $36k → 16%AYNI INSTITUTE INC: $31k → 16%AFRICAN ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND: $56k → 14%Refugee Youth Power Summit: $6k → 14%ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP: $65k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP: $39k → 16%Asian American Resource Workshop: $8k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
MD

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.1M · 45 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
88

Total granted

$3.1M
$928k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+29%

Still filing today

71%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • NC
    NORTH COUNTRY ALLIANCE FOR BALANCED CHANGE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $207k · revenue +274% · 71% of their budget
  • TA
    TIDES ADVOCACY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $116k · revenue +4%
  • AB
    A BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $112k · revenue +898%

Funded once

  • THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $56k · revenue +1%
  • AFRICAN ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND
    one grant, 2022 · $56k · revenue +2%
  • BI
    BLACK INFINITY COLLECTIVE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $41k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

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.

Food & Nutrition
2
New Britain Roots Inc

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,…

Food & Nutrition
3
Groundwork Southcoast Inc

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…

4
Cultivating Community

To grow food justice in Greater Portland by providing education, resources, and opportunities to cultivate and share culturally familiar food.

Food & Nutrition
5
Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative

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.

Environment
6
Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc

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.

Human Services
7
Development in Gardening

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.

Community Improvement
8
Cooperation Vermont

The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.

Community Improvement
9
Worcester Roots Project

working with communities facing economic or environmental injustice, training and empowering youth, supporting development of related urban worker cooperatives. We re-established youth programming.

Environment
10
Maine Climate Action Now

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…

Environment
11
Sustainable Woodstock Inc

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…

Environment
12
Groundwork Rhode Island

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…

Environment

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Banks and PantriesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Local Food System Organizat…Health Access Advocacy and …Community Arts CentersYouth Development CentersJewish Community Organizati…Immigrant Worker SupportAffordable Housing Developm…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%24%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%5%<5yr14%27%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%6%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
7/119
the rest of the field
13%
240,390/1,819,446

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/93
Grantees still filing
60/93
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Boston Climate Action Network — $370,643 · OtherBoston Climate Action NetworkSummer Solutions of Hartford — $216,782 · OtherSummer Solutions of HartfordTIDES ADVOCACY — $115,555 · OtherThe Muddy Water Group — $102,084 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $98,316 · OtherFriends of Salter Grove — $97,908 · OtherVERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC — $106,350 · Other+81 more — $1,163,708 · Other+81 moreNORTH COUNTRY ALLIANCE FOR BALANCED CHANGE — $207,142 · EnvironmentNORTH COUNTR…POCASSET POKANOKET LAND TRUST INC — $74,000 · EnvironmentPOCASSET POK…Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc — $50,700 · EnvironmentBrunswick-To…TINY SEED PROJECT INC — $27,900 · EnvironmentTINY SEED PR…WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED — $20,225 · Environment+9 more — $72,775 · Environment+9 moreASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC — $111,400 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERI…AYNI INSTITUTE INC — $106,496 · Human ServicesAYNI INSTIT…ROOTS 2EMPOWER — $82,100 · Human ServicesROOTS 2EMPO…AFRICAN ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND (AARI) — $56,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN ALL…SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS RELIEF ORGANIZATION — $27,900 · Human ServicesSUSTAINABLE…+4 more — $23,500 · Human Services+4 moreTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $76,960 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SEC…FOUR CORNERS MAIN STREET INC — $48,400 · Community ImprovementFOUR CORN…MOUNT WASHINGTON VALLEY PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION — $45,775 · Community ImprovementMOUNT WAS…VITAL COMMUNITIES INC — $44,475 · Community ImprovementVITAL COM…BLACK INFINITY COLLECTIVE INC — $41,000 · Community ImprovementBLACK INF…VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC — $30,000 · Community ImprovementVERMONT C…COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC — $15,300 · Community ImprovementINDIAN ORCHARD CITIZENS COUNCIL INC — $13,325 · Community Improvement+6 more — $47,875 · Community Improvement+6 moreCLICK INC — $70,000 · Food & NutritionKEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC — $68,750 · Food & NutritionEASTIE FARM INC — $40,000 · Food & NutritionSEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC — $23,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY HARVEST OF CENTRAL VERMONT — $16,329 · Food & NutritionLIBERATION ECOSYSTEM INC — $15,000 · Food & NutritionMIGRANT JUSTICE INC — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more — $14,375 · Food & NutritionWHYHUNGER INC — $169,750 · Arts & CultureSonrisas Inc — $45,175 · Arts & CultureART COUNCIL OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC — $16,050 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $19,925 · Arts & CultureA BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC — $111,741 · HealthSt Mary's Regional Medical Center — $25,000 · HealthMONITOR MY HEALTH INC — $5,900 · Health
Other$2,271,346Environment$452,742Human Services$407,396Community Improvement$363,110Food & Nutrition$257,454Arts & Culture$250,900Health$142,641

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTH COUNTRY ALLIANCE FOR BALANCED CHANGE — $207,142 over 6y, 71% of budgetWHYHUNGER INC — $169,750 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY — $115,555 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetA BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC — $111,741 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC — $111,400 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetAYNI INSTITUTE INC — $106,496 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetVERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC — $106,350 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetROOTS 2EMPOWER — $82,100 over 3y, 24% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $76,960 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WINDOW DRESSERS INC — $75,418 over 5y, 13% of budgetPOCASSET POKANOKET LAND TRUST INC — $74,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetBROCKTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY INC — $70,650 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCLICK INC — $70,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetKEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC — $68,750 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $56,322 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND (AARI) — $56,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBrunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc — $50,700 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFOUR CORNERS MAIN STREET INC — $48,400 over 2y, 21% of budgetMOUNT WASHINGTON VALLEY PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION — $45,775 over 2y, 35% of budgetSonrisas Inc — $45,175 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetVITAL COMMUNITIES INC — $44,475 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetEASTIE FARM INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWINDHAM REGIONAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC — $36,525 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetResources for Organizing and Social Change — $34,300 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetVERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC — $30,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS RELIEF ORGANIZATION — $27,900 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetTINY SEED PROJECT INC — $27,900 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSt Mary's Regional Medical Center — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOME CITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $23,550 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC — $23,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetWOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED — $20,225 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetART COUNCIL OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC — $16,050 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC — $15,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAINE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetLIBERATION ECOSYSTEM INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR AN ECOLOGY BASED ECONOMY — $13,655 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetLUCY PARSONS LABS — $13,400 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetINDIAN ORCHARD CITIZENS COUNCIL INC — $13,325 over 2y, 15% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC — $12,900 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeace Development Fund — $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARISE INC — $11,700 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC — $11,400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMerrimack Valley Black & Brown Voices Inc — $10,500 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMIGRANT JUSTICE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST END CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC — $9,400 over 1y, 5.1% of budget
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.

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.

Haymarket People's Fund IncMA47.9× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 190%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 14%
  • Windham Regional Community Council Inc76% of income from government
  • Worcester Youth Center Inc64% of income from government
  • Dad Guild Inc63% of income from government
  • Cooperative Development Institute Inc58% of income from government
  • Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc51% of income from government
  • Click Inc44% of income from government
  • Keney Park Sustainability Project37% of income from government
  • Monitor My Health Inc36% of income from government
  • Level Ground Mixed Martial Arts Inc19% of income from government
  • Nourish Bridgeport Inc19% of income from government
  • Vermont Council On Rural Development Inc17% of income from government
  • Sociedad Latina Inc15% of income from government
  • Art Council of Greater New Haven Inc14% of income from government
  • Eastie Farm Inc13% of income from government
  • Intervale Center Inc13% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Housing Services of Waterbury Inc8% of income from government
  • Huneebee Project Inc8% of income from government
  • Vital Communities Inc5% of income from government
  • Indian Orchard Citizens Council Inc5% of income from government
  • The Nolumbeka Project Inc5% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc3% of income from government
  • Transformative Culture Project Inc F/K/a Press Pass Tv Inc2% of income from government
  • Sonrisas Inc1% of income from government
  • Greenroots Inc1% of income from government
  • Asian American Resource Workshop Inc0% of income from government
  • Migrant Justice Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 143 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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