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Renew New England

Renew is building grassroots power in states across the country, laying the foundation for a movement strong enough to restore the planet, make democracy real, and ensure an equitable society for all.

$627k
Granted FY2022
5
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$225k
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 FY20202022.

Civil Rights$437kCommunity Improvement$225kPublic Benefit$210kHuman Services$100kEnvironment$20k
02FY2022 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$11k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE$225,000
RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY PROJECT$202,000
NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND$100,000
ACT INDIANA$50,000
REPRESENT GA ACTION NETWORK$50,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND: $100k → 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.

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 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
Right to Democracy Action

Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in u.s. territories, including by promoting civic engagement among the territorial diaspora throughout the united states.

2
RepresentUs

RepresentUs is America's leading nonpartisan grassroots organization working for a government accountable to the people. We unite people from all backgrounds to defend democracy, root out corruption, mobilize action, and support campaigns…

Public Benefit
3
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
4
Open Democracy Action

Bring about and safeguard political equality for the people of New Hampshire. This will only happen through an open, accountable, and trusted democratic government, of, by, and for the people, that is free from the corrupting influence of…

5
New Hampshire Democracy Fund

To build a movement of people and organizations in New Hampshire to protect democracy and voting rights.

Civil Rights
6
New Jersey Citizen Action

To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.

7
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
8
Nextgen Climate Action

Nextgen america empowers young people to engage in the democratic process through voter registration and civic engagement on issues of public policy. this is achieved through innovative digital outreach, communications, and grassroots…

Unclassified
9
Democracy Unlimited

Democracy Unlimited uplifts people to build a world where our systems of power prioritize the well-being of humans and the living world. We reclaim authority that has been unjustly seized by governments and corporations - all with the aim…

Education
10
Right to Democracy Project

Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.

Civil Rights
11
Center for Popular Democracy Inc

The center for popular democracy (cpd) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world. we upend business and politics as usual to forge a representative, multiracial government and society where we all…

Public Benefit
12
Climate Defiance Action

Advocate for climate change and other environmental action via nonviolent direct action

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Protect Democracy Project and the most unlike its peers is Act Indiana -. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 20172024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE — $320,000 · Community ImprovementMAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCERIGHTS & DEMOCRACY PROJECT INC — $140,000 · OtherRIGHTS & DEMOCRACY PROJECT IN…CONNECTICUT CITIZEN ACTION GROUP INC — $70,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT CITIZEN ACTION GR…Represent Georgia Action Network Inc — $50,000 · OtherRepresent Georgia Action Netw…RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND INC — $202,000 · Crime & LegalRIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUC…NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBOR TO…Act Indiana - — $50,000 · Public BenefitPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $40,000 · Civil RightsBETTER FUTURE ACTION — $20,000 · Environment
Community Improvement$320,000Other$260,000Crime & Legal$202,000Human Services$100,000Public Benefit$50,000Civil Rights$40,000Environment$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE — $320,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetRIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND INC — $202,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetRIGHTS & DEMOCRACY PROJECT INC — $140,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND INC — $100,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetCONNECTICUT CITIZEN ACTION GROUP INC — $70,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetRepresent Georgia Action Network Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Working Families Organization Inc · Tides 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 Renew New England 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
2021222324
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2024

    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Renew New England?

    Find your warmest path to Renew New England through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 9 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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