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Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

$6.1M
Granted FY2023
10
Grants FY2023
8
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
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 FY2022–2023.

Environment$5.8MCivil Rights$1.0MHealth$33kEducation$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$10k
02FY2023 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $50k–250k4 grants · $532k
  • $250k+6 grants · $5.4M
$983,596
Median grant
8
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Southern Sector Rising$1,127,000
Community Justice Project$1,000,000
New Bethel Comm Dev Corp$1,000,000
GASP$1,000,000
Sierra Club Puerto Rico$983,596
Amigxs del M A R$327,865
Alliance Affordable Energy$243,389
Mujeres del Isla$163,933
Haitian Bridge Alliance$75,000
Out for Sustainability$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 (FY23–23, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Haitian Bridge Alliance: $75k → 11%New Bethel Comm Dev Corp: $1.0M → 19%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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Grants abroad, by region — $106k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$106k · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Eco-Education

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

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
Louisiana Bucket Brigade

To support communities use of grassroots action in order to create sustainable neighborhoods free from industrial pollution.

Environment
2
Center for Contemporary Documentation Inc
Philanthropy
3
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
4
Educator Collective for Envionmental Justice Inc

Environmental Justice & Equality

Education
5
Environment Now
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6
Alliance for Metropolitan Stability

The alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations and advocacy groups with a mission to build power across the intersections of geography, race, culture, and issues in the twin cities region to eliminate systems of oppression…

Community Improvement
7
Strategic Concepts in Organizing & Policy Education

To Build grassroots power to eliminate structural barriers to social and economic opportunities in low-income and disenfranchised communities.

Human Services
8
Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - Tag

Elevate the voice of those impacted by the Duwamish River pollution and other environmental injustices for a clean, healthy, equitable environment for people and wildlife. We promote place-keeping and prioritize community capacity and…

Environment
9
Acterra Action for a Healthy Planet

To bring people together to create local solutions for a healthy planet.

Environment
10
California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment
11
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
12
Sustainable Innovation Initiatives Inc

Our mission is to enable ecologically regenerative and sustainable societies in tropical forest regions. We are dedicated to fostering these societies, particularly in the Caribbean and wider Americas, where biodiversity is most critically…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Sector Rising and the most unlike its peers is Ironton Reconstruction and Development Commitee. 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

19 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 21 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)
17/19
Grantees still filing
8/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Gasp — $1,000,000 · EnvironmentGaspSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $983,596 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATIONALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY — $243,389 · EnvironmentALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGYOccidental Arts and Ecology Center — $80,000 · EnvironmentTURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK — $80,000 · Environment+1 more — $10,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN SECTOR RISING — $1,240,333 · Community ImprovementSOUTHERN SECTOR RISINGMUJERES DE ISLAS INC — $163,933 · Community ImprovementMUJERES DE ISLAS INCSOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS — $80,000 · Community ImprovementSOCIETY OF NATIVE NATION…+1 more — $10,000 · Community ImprovementNEW BETHEL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $1,000,000 · Human ServicesNEW BETHEL COMMUN…HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE — $75,000 · Human ServicesHAITIAN BRIDGE AL…COMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT INC — $1,000,000 · Civil RightsCOMMUNITY JUSTICE…OUT FOR SUSTAINABILITY INC — $50,000 · Civil RightsAmigxs del M A R — $402,865 · OtherAmigxs del …CARRIZO COMECRUDO NATION OF TEXAS INC — $130,000 · OtherCARRIZO COM…PORT ARTHUR COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK — $100,000 · OtherPORT ARTHUR…RIPP RESILIENCE IS POWER PROGRAM — $53,333 · OtherRIPP RESILI…West Street Recovery — $83,333 · Public Safety & DisasterCHOICES INTER-LINKING — $33,333 · HealthLPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS INC — $25,000 · Education
Environment$2,396,985Community Improvement$1,494,266Human Services$1,075,000Civil Rights$1,050,000Other$686,198Public Safety & Disaster$83,333Health$33,333Education$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTHERN SECTOR RISING — $1,240,333 over 2y, 63% of budgetCOMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetNEW BETHEL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $1,000,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetGasp — $1,000,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $983,596 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY — $243,389 over 1y, 10% of budgetWest Street Recovery — $83,333 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetSOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS — $80,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetOccidental Arts and Ecology Center — $80,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK — $80,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE — $75,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetOUT FOR SUSTAINABILITY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetCHOICES INTER-LINKING — $33,333 over 1y, 37% of budgetLPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetIRONTON RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITEE — $10,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…Rockefeller Philanthr…Healthy GulfTides FoundationEarthworksSustainable Markets F…Sierra ClubSolutions Project IncRockefeller Family Fu…Silicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC20× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Healthy Gulf · Tides Foundation · Earthworks · Sustainable Markets Foundation · Sierra Club · Solutions Project Inc · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Taproot Earth 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 Taproot Earth?

    Find your warmest path to Taproot Earth 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 21 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 2023, released 2023. 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 $106k 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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    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
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