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Renew New England Alliance

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.

$75k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Civil Rights$468kPublic Benefit$325kEnvironment$277kPhilanthropy$157k
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND$50,000
TAKEACTION MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND$25,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Better Future Action: $25k → 8%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND: $300k → 16%TAKEACTION MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND: $25k → 14%Connecticut Citizen Research Group: $125k → 11%THE PEOPLE'S PORT AUTHORITY: $157k → 14%Rights & Democracy Education Fund: $160k → 10%MAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $75k → 7%CONNECTICUT CITIZEN RESEARCH GROUP: $75k → 11%The Peoples Port Authority: $32k → 14%Rights & Democracy Education Fund: $40k → 10%Maine People's Resource Center: $25k → 7%Connecticut Citizen Research Group: $20k → 11%Maine People's Resource Center: $20k → 7%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.
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$877k · 4 repeat orgs$350k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
2

Total granted

$877k
$325k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+29%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentCrime & LegalCivil RightsPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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

  • RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $348k · revenue -36%
  • CC
    CONNECTICUT CITIZEN RESEARCH GROUP INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $220k · revenue +816%
  • TP
    THE PEOPLES PORT AUTHORITY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $189k · revenue -24% · 83% of their budget

Funded once

  • NT
    NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +29%
  • BF
    BETTER FUTURE ACTION
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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
04the grantee network

7 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND INC: $348,000 · Crime & LegalRIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUN…NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC: $300,000 · Civil RightsNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSAC…CONNECTICUT CITIZEN RESEARCH GROUP INC: $220,000 · EnvironmentCONNECTICUT CITIZEN RE…BETTER FUTURE ACTION: $25,000 · EnvironmentBETTER FUTURE ACTIONTHE PEOPLES PORT AUTHORITY: $189,208 · PhilanthropyTHE PEOPLES PORT …MAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $120,000 · OtherMAINE PEOPL…TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND: $25,000 · Public Benefit
Crime & Legal$348,000Civil Rights$300,000Environment$245,000Philanthropy$189,208Other$120,000Public Benefit$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND INC: $348,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC: $300,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCONNECTICUT CITIZEN RESEARCH GROUP INC: $220,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetTHE PEOPLES PORT AUTHORITY: $189,208 over 2y, 83% of budgetMAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $120,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Barr FoundationWindward FundPeople's Action Insti…Working Families Orga…Fidelity Investments …
Barr FoundationMA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Barr Foundation · Windward Fund · People's Action Institute · Working Families Organization Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Renew New England Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Renew New England Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Connecticut Citizen Research Group Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
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How do I get to Renew New England Alliance?

Find your warmest path to Renew New England Alliance 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 7 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $55k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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