· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $10,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $15,567 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,567 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Tiny Seed Project | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- VLVermont Law School3× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +69%
- AIARISE INC4× · 2017–2020 · $135k · revenue +248%
- NTNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC3× · 2017–2022 · $128k · revenue +183%
Funded once
NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $107k · revenue +262%- TATOXICS ACTION CENTER CAMPAIGNS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue +133%
- BFBETTER FUTURE PROJECT INCone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +20%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
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…
ACT leads the just, equitable and rapid transition to a clean energy future and diverse climate economy.
To stop the climate crisis by building grassroots support for a just transition to renewable energy and an end to fossil fuel use and expansion. We envision a society with a renewable energy economy that works for all people, where all…
Environmental Justice & Equality
NESEA acts as a hub that connects citizens, professionals, businesses and organizations in the Northeast seeking to discover and demonstrate the responsible production and use of energy.
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…
The organization's mission is to advocate for policy that meets the scale and urgency of our environmental challenges. as a massachusetts-based organization that engages in advocacy across a full spectrum of climate, environmental, and…
Electoral Collective Action coordinates a broad-based coalition of existing entities active in the climate justice and community organizing space to raise public awareness and educational opportunities.
Minneapolis Climate Action is a 501c(3) nonprofit founded in 2007 by a group of dedicated individuals committed to addressing climate change in their community. After almost 10 years of working at the neighborhood level and piloting the…
The mission of energy action network (ean) is to support vermont in making evidence-based energy and climate decisions that are grounded in high-quality data and analysis, and collaboratively developed for effective and durable progress.
Green Cambridge strives to create a more sustainable city protect the environment and educate youth and adults about the importance of environmental issue.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Climate Action Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vermont Law School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 23 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Vermont Law School ↗
- Who funds ARISE INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FORE RIVER RESIDENTS AGAINST THE COMPRESSOR STATIO ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WATER FUND ↗
- Who funds PIPE LINE AWARENESS NETWORK FOR THE NORTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds TOXICS ACTION CENTER CAMPAIGNS INC ↗
- Who funds Unitarian Universalist Massachusetts Action Network Inc ↗
- Who funds BETTER FUTURE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER OF BOSTON ↗
- Who funds TINY SEED PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL MASSACHUSETTS RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Native Green ↗
- Who funds Resources for Organizing and Social Change ↗
- Who funds NH Healthy Climate ↗
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.
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
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 Toxics Action Center 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.
- Vermont Law School — 14% of income from government
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.