Massachusetts · Public charity
Toxics Action Center Inc
To organize side-by-side with communities, providing them with the skills and resources needed to prevent or clean up pollution at the local level.
- $16k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $10k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 13
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations Toxics Action Center Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $57k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $162k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $40k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $126k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $155k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $94k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $501k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vermont Law School | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Arise Inc | $135,000 | 4 | 16% |
| Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts Education Fund Inc | $128,000 | 3 | 6% |
| New England Grassroots Environment Fund Inc | $106,600 | 1 | 11% |
| Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Statio | $98,921 | 4 | 82% |
| Clean Water Fund | $90,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Pipe Line Awareness Network for the Northeast Inc | $70,000 | 3 | 31% |
| Toxics Action Center Campaigns Inc | $45,495 | 1 | n/a |
| Better Future Project Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Unitarian Universalist Massachusetts Action Network Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 8% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vermont Law School | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Arise Inc | $135,000 | 4 | 16% |
| Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts Education Fund Inc | $128,000 | 3 | 6% |
| New England Grassroots Environment Fund Inc | $106,600 | 1 | 11% |
| Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Statio | $98,921 | 4 | 82% |
| Clean Water Fund | $90,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Pipe Line Awareness Network for the Northeast Inc | $70,000 | 3 | 31% |
| Toxics Action Center Campaigns Inc | $45,495 | 1 | n/a |
| Better Future Project Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Unitarian Universalist Massachusetts Action Network Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 8% |
| North American Indian Center of Boston | $37,500 | 4 | 4% |
| Coalition for Social Justice Education Fund Inc | $37,500 | 2 | 4% |
| Tiny Seed Project Inc | $37,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Massachusetts Climate Action Network Inc | $30,250 | 1 | 17% |
| Environmental Massachusetts Research and Policy Center | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Native Green | $10,097 | 1 | 24% |
| Carcs Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fight for Zero Inc | $7,877 | 1 | n/a |
| Resources for Organizing and Social Change | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| NH Healthy Climate | $6,500 | 1 | 4% |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Toxics Action Center Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Barr Foundation · Patagoniaorg · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Clean Water Fund · New England Grassroots Environment Fund Inc · Haymarket People's Fund Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About Toxics Action Center Inc
- How much does Toxics Action Center Inc give?
- Toxics Action Center Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $10,000, out of $15,567 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Toxics Action Center Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (52%), Education (15%), Civil Rights (12%).
- Who are Toxics Action Center Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Vermont Law School ($150k), Arise Inc ($135k), Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts Education Fund Inc ($128k).
- Does Toxics Action Center Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Toxics Action Center Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Barr Foundation, Patagoniaorg, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Toxics Action Center Inc based?
- Toxics Action Center Inc is based in MA.
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