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Rights & Democracy Education Fund Inc

The rights & democracy education fund, d.b.a.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$149k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY PROJECT INC$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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Vermont Interfaith Action: $37k → 10%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 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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$601k · 7 repeat orgs$275k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$601k
$275k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-45%
+33%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEmploymentArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • GS
    GRANITE STATE ORGANIZING PROJECT INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $180k · revenue -1%
  • RI
    RESIST INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $168k · revenue -7%
  • RD
    RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY PROJECT INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $130k · revenue -80%

Funded once

  • CR
    COMMUNITY RESILIENCE ORGANIZATIONS
    one grant, 2023 · $93k · revenue -58%
  • VS
    VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +3%
  • VI
    VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $37k · revenue +35%

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.

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Cooperation Vermont

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

Community Improvement
2
Northeast Kingdom Organizing

Coalition that has come together to organize and advocate for justice for the people and places of vermonts northeast kingdom.

Community Improvement
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
Alliance for Climate Transition Inc

ACT leads the just, equitable and rapid transition to a clean energy future and diverse climate economy.

Community Improvement
5
350 Wisconsin Action Inc

350 Wisconsin Action mobilizes concerned climate voters to push for bold climate action from government and elected officials. We keep the climate crisis at the center of the political conversation, and push for progressive policies that…

Environment
6
Climate Jobs Massachusetts Inc

The objective of the fund is to help build a worker-oriented environmental movement committed to securing a fair and just transition that protects not only the environment but also the livelihoods of workers and their communities.

Environment
7
Alliance for a Better Vermont

Conducts and coordinates research of critical issues affecting vermonters. also conducts public opinion research.

8
Cooperation Vermont Community Land Trust

The mission of cooperation vermont community land trust is to reclaim the commons.

Community Improvement
9
Unitarian Universalist Massachusetts Action Network Inc

Our mission is to organize and mobilize Unitarian Universalists in Massachusetts to control oppression. We provide pathways towards justice and identify opportunities in which we can live our values.

Religion
10
350 Colorado

We are a grassroots movement working to build a fossil-free future powered by 100% renewable energy. we empower communities across colorado to join together to fight for environmental justice. through our volunteer-led teams, we use a…

Environment
11
Alliance for Vermont Communities Inc

The mission of alliance for vermont communities, inc. is to protect working farms, forests and communities of central vermont and to promote responsible development that will sustain the rural heritage and values for present and future…

12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Granite State Organizing Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Orgs. 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

14 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. 14 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RESIST INC — $168,270 · OtherRESIST INCRIGHTS & DEMOCRACY PROJECT INC — $130,000 · OtherRIGHTS & DEMOCRACY PROJECT INCMain Street Alliance — $25,000 · OtherMain Street AllianceNEW HAMPSHIRE YOUTH MOVEMENT PROJECT — $20,000 · OtherNEW HAMPSHIRE YOUTH MOVEMENT PROJECTAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS — $18,000 · Other+1 more — $12,000 · OtherGRANITE STATE ORGANIZING PROJECT INC — $179,500 · Community ImprovementGRANITE STATE ORGANIZIN…350 NEW HAMPSHIRE — $40,000 · Environment350 NEW HAMP…CENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES INC — $35,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR W…350 VERMONT INC — $20,000 · Environment350 VERMONT …COMMUNITY RESILIENCE ORGANIZATIONS — $92,574 · Public Safety & DisasterCOMMUNITY R…VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC — $37,000 · Human ServicesUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ACTION NEW HAMPSHIRE — $17,750 · Human ServicesVERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC — $40,000 · EmploymentCOWASS North America Incorporated — $30,000 · Arts & CultureMIGRANT JUSTICE INC — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$373,270Community Improvement$179,500Environment$95,000Public Safety & Disaster$92,574Human Services$54,750Employment$40,000Arts & Culture$30,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

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 budgetGRANITE STATE ORGANIZING PROJECT INC — $179,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetRESIST INC — $168,270 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRIGHTS & DEMOCRACY PROJECT INC — $130,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESILIENCE ORGANIZATIONS — $92,574 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetVERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC — $40,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget350 NEW HAMPSHIRE — $40,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetVERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC — $37,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES INC — $35,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCOWASS North America Incorporated — $30,000 over 2y, 17% of budget350 VERMONT INC — $20,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE YOUTH MOVEMENT PROJECT — $20,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS — $18,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ACTION NEW HAMPSHIRE — $17,750 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetMIGRANT JUSTICE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

The Vermont Community FoundationVT17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Rights & Democracy Education 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 · 40%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 25%
  • Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc51% of income from government
  • Community Resilience Organizations25% of income from government
  • Resist Inc2% of income from government
  • Migrant Justice Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 16 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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