How much did Taproot Earth grant in FY2023?

Taproot Earth reported 10 grants totaling $6,050,776 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Taproot Earth

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· Public charity

Taproot Earth

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

$6.1M

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$1.1M

Largest

01What you fund

0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2023.

Environment$2.4MCommunity Improvement$1.5MHuman Services$1.1MCivil Rights$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$83kHealth$33kOther$711k

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

States reached

$18M

Total assets

Largest grants

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

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 11%. 93% 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.

Island Institute

We boldly navigate climate and economic change with island and coastal communities to expand opportunities and deliver solutions.

Education

Center for Sea Rise Solutions

Build coastal resilience competence.

Environment

Rainforest Action Network

Our mission is to preserve forests, protect the climate and uphold human rights by challenging corporate power and systemic injustice through frontline partnerships and strategic campaigns.

Environment

Environmental Law Institute

To advance effective law and governance systems for environmental protection by providing information, publications, training courses, seminars, research and policy recommendations in a manner that engages and empowers leaders and…

Environment

Environment Now

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Society of Environmental Journalists

The mission of the society of environmental journalists is to strengthen the quality, reach, and viability of journalism across all media to advance public understanding of environmental issues.

Arts & Culture

Save Cuesta Inlet Inc

Environment

Institute for Sustainable Communities

To develop practical, lasting solutions that build climate-resilient communities in the u.s. and across the world. through partnerships with locally-led organizations, we co-create safer environments, healthier lives, and cleaner cities,…

International

Educator Collective for Envionmental Justice Inc

Environmental Justice & Equality

Education

Circum-Pacific Council for Energy

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Bay Nature Institute

Through environmental journalism, photography, art, and educational webinars, Bay Nature magazine and website connect the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to the natural world that surrounds them.

Environment

Indigenous Women Rising

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turtle Island Restoration Network 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

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/18

Grantees still filing

12/18

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Environment$2,396,985Community Improvement$1,494,266Human Services$1,075,000Civil Rights$1,050,000Other$711,198Public Safety & Disaster$83,333Health$33,333

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.

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 Charitable Foundation IncDC18.6× affinity7 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 · Tides Foundation · Healthy Gulf · Sierra Club · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · Southern Sector Rising · Earthworks · Sustainable Markets Foundation · Solutions Project Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community 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 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.

2025

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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. 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: New Bethel Comm Dev Corp.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~8 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 770654511 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 New Bethel Comm Dev Corp, 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 8 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 76% 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.

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How do I get to Taproot Earth?

Find your warmest path to Taproot Earth 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.

Taproot Earth

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Taproot Earth?

More from the funding graph

Taproot Earth

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Taproot Earth?

More from the funding graph