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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 FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$591kEducation$168kCivil Rights$140kPublic Benefit$128kEmployment$80kHuman Services$38k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $10,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $15,567 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,567 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tiny Seed Project$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MASSACHUSETTS CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK: $30k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$836k · 11 repeat orgs$308k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
12

Total granted

$836k
$308k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+20%

Still filing today

82%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationCivil RightsPublic BenefitHuman ServicesReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • VL
    Vermont Law School
    3× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +69%
  • AI
    ARISE INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $135k · revenue +248%
  • NT
    NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $128k · revenue +183%

Funded once

  • NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $107k · revenue +262%
  • TA
    TOXICS ACTION CENTER CAMPAIGNS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue +133%
  • BF
    BETTER FUTURE PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +20%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Climate Jobs Massachusetts Inc

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.

Environment
2
Maine Climate Action Now

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…

Environment
3
Alliance for Climate Transition Inc

ACT leads the just, equitable and rapid transition to a clean energy future and diverse climate economy.

Community Improvement
4
350 New Hampshire

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…

Environment
5
Educator Collective for Envionmental Justice Inc

Environmental Justice & Equality

Education
6
Northeast Sustainable Energy Association Inc

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.

Environment
7
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
8
Environmental League of Massachusetts Inc

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…

Environment
9
Electoral Collective Action

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.

Civil Rights
10
Minneapolis Climate Action

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…

Environment
11
Energy Action Network Inc

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.

Environment
12
Green Cambridge Inc

Green Cambridge strives to create a more sustainable city protect the environment and educate youth and adults about the importance of environmental issue.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Climate Action Network Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC: $106,600 · EnvironmentNEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INCFORE RIVER RESIDENTS AGAINST THE COMPRESSOR STATIO: $98,921 · EnvironmentFORE RIVER RESIDENTS AGAINST THE COMPRESSOR …CLEAN WATER FUND: $90,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN WATER FUNDPIPE LINE AWARENESS NETWORK FOR THE NORTHEAST INC: $70,000 · EnvironmentPIPE LINE AWARENESS NETWORK FOR THE NORTHEAS…BETTER FUTURE PROJECT INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentBETTER FUTURE PROJECT INCTINY SEED PROJECT INC: $37,000 · EnvironmentTINY SEED PROJECT INC+1 more: $6,500 · EnvironmentARISE INC: $135,000 · OtherARISE INCTOXICS ACTION CENTER CAMPAIGNS INC: $45,495 · OtherTOXICS ACTION CENTER CAMPAIGN…NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER OF BOSTON: $37,500 · OtherNORTH AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER …ENVIRONMENTAL MASSACHUSETTS RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER: $30,000 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL MASSACHUSETTS R…FORE RIVER RESIDENTS AGAINST THE COMPRESSOR STATION (FRRACS): $12,425 · OtherCARCS INC: $10,000 · Other+4 more: $29,317 · Other+4 moreVermont Law School: $150,000 · EducationVermont Law Sc…NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC: $128,000 · Civil RightsNEIGHBOR TO …Unitarian Universalist Massachusetts Action Network Inc: $40,000 · ReligionCOALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC: $37,500 · Public BenefitMASSACHUSETTS CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC: $30,250 · Human ServicesNative Green: $10,097 · Arts & Culture
Environment$449,021Other$299,737Education$150,000Civil Rights$128,000Religion$40,000Public Benefit$37,500Human Services$30,250Arts & Culture$10,097

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVermont Law School: $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetARISE INC: $135,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC: $128,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetNEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC: $106,600 over 1y, 11% of budgetFORE RIVER RESIDENTS AGAINST THE COMPRESSOR STATIO: $98,921 over 4y, 82% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND: $90,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPIPE LINE AWARENESS NETWORK FOR THE NORTHEAST INC: $70,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetBETTER FUTURE PROJECT INC: $40,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetUnitarian Universalist Massachusetts Action Network Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER OF BOSTON: $37,500 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetCOALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC: $37,500 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTINY SEED PROJECT INC: $37,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC: $30,250 over 1y, 17% of budgetNative Green: $10,097 over 1y, 24% of budgetNH Healthy Climate: $6,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Barr FoundationPatagoniaorgNew Hampshire Charita…Boston Foundation IncClean Water FundNew England Grassroot…Haymarket People's Fu…Common Counsel Founda…Annie E Casey Foundat…ImpactassetsincNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…
Barr FoundationMA21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Toxics Action Center Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Toxics Action Center Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Vermont Law School: 14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get 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
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 23 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 $6k 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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