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Root Capital Inc

Root capital seeks to increase incomes and stabilize employment for farmers in africa, south-east asia, and latin america. Root capital does this through a proven channel: support for agricultural businesses that collect and market the crops of thousands of farmers. Through a unique combination of capital, training, and access to global…

$1.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$583k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$583,458
Largest grant, FY2024
$583,458
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$116M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Root Capital Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 90% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $436k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$583k0%
FY20233$486k33%
FY20221$19k0%
FY20212$118kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$1.0MFood & Nutrition$127kCommunity Improvement$61k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Catholic Relief Services$1,019,3052n/a
Sustainable Food Laboratory Inc$126,66723%
The Chain Collaborative$61,000310%

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About Root Capital Inc

How much does Root Capital Inc give?
Root Capital Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $583,458, out of $1,317,438 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Root Capital Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (84%), Food & Nutrition (10%), Community Improvement (5%).
Who are Root Capital Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Catholic Relief Services ($1.0M), Sustainable Food Laboratory Inc ($127k), The Chain Collaborative ($61k).
Does Root Capital Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Root Capital Inc based?
Root Capital Inc is based in MA.

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 3 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $361k 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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