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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
5
Communities
$225k
Largest
01What you fund
0174% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2022.
Community Improvement$320kCrime & Legal$202kHuman Services$100kPublic Benefit$50kCivil Rights$40kEnvironment$20kOther$260k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
rightsreformgovernmentenvironmentalpromotingjusticeclimate
2022
granted rnerne directlydirectly contributingcontributing renew'srenew's campaignscampaigns priorities
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2022 · 5 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$236k
Total assets
Largest grants
- MAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE$225,000
- RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY PROJECT$202,000
- NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND$100,000
- REPRESENT GA ACTION NETWORK$50,000
- ACT INDIANA$50,000
02The need
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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 (FY22–22, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
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Maine Climate Action Now
MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate and ecological emergency. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate…
Environment
2
Democracy Works
International
3
Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group Inc
MASSPIRG is an advocate for the public interest. When consumers are cheated or the voices of ordinary citizens are drowned out by special interest lobbyists, MASSPIRG speaks up and takes action. We uncover threats to public health and…
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4
People's Action
People's action is focused on advancing affordable health care and prescription drugs, tax fairness and fair immigration reform, as well as protecting safety net programs.
Community Improvement
5
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…
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6
New Jersey Citizen Action
To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and to encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.
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7
Accountable Justice Action Fund
Crime & Legal
8
Demand Progress Action Inc
National grassroots group that fights for basic rights & freedoms needed for modern democracy.
Public Benefit
9
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
10
Climate Justice Alliance
Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) is a growing member alliance of more than 85 urban and rural frontline communities, organizations, and supporting networks in the climate justice movement. CJA unites our membership to build local, community…
Environment
11
One for Democracy Action Fund
To transform the way individual and instituional donors approach democracy.
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12
Protect Democracy United
The mission of protect democracy united is to prevent our democracy from declining into a more authoritarian form of government. we do this by working to strengthen the checks and balances that have held the executive branch accountable to…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts 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.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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
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 Maine People's Alliance ↗
- Who funds RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Rights and Democracy Project ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Citizen Action Group ↗
- Who funds ACT INDIANA ↗
- Who funds REPRESENT GA ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Rights and Democracy ↗
- Who funds Better Future Action ↗
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 FundDC15.8× 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 organisation 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
’20’21’22’23’24
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, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~31 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.3× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 043507714 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 31 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 45% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Renew New England?
Find your warmest path to Renew New England through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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