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· Public charity

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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $760,621, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,190,717 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $430,096 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
CLICK INC$55,000
POCASSET POKANOCKET LAND TRUST$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YWCA Greater Newburyport: $6k → 10%Roots 2 Empower: $8k → 14%ROOTS 2 EMPOWER: $56k → 14%ROOTS 2 EMPOWER: $18k → 14%Maine Immigrant & Refugee Services: $6k → 13%Sisters Unchained The City School: $6k → 16%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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
MD
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+32%
+32%

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
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.

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
How this is measured

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

04Its field

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.

1
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…

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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
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
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
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
6
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
7
Tree Eastie Inc

Environmental Justice

Environment
8
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
9
Sustainable Business Network of Massachu

To engage massachusetts business and community leaders in building economies that are local, green and fair through educational programs, networking, and special events.

Community Improvement
10
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
11
Acadia Center

Acadia Center advances bold, effective, and equitable clean energy solutions for a livable climate and a stronger, more equitable economy.

Environment
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eastie Farm Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

93 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. 93 of the 143 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/93
Grantees still filing
61/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetLIBERATION ECOSYSTEM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMAINE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 2y, 7.9% 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 budgetPeace Development Fund: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetMIGRANT JUSTICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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
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.

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.

Haymarket People's Fu…Elmina B Sewall Found…Maine Community Found…Nellie Mae Education …Barr FoundationPatagoniaorgHenry P Kendall Found…The Vermont Community…The Hyams Foundation …Boston Foundation IncNew Hampshire Charita…William Caspar Graust…
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization New England Grassroots Environment Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New England Grassroots Environment Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • 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
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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 143 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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