California · Nonprofit
New Roots Institute
New Roots Institute (California) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,067,410 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($979,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $6.1M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What New Roots Institute does
Mission
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Organization accomplished educational outreach. Through interactive, high school and college lessons, we inspired critical thinking and dynamic discussions about the connections between industrial animal agriculture and current key issues impacting us alllike animal welfare, climate change and environmental sustainability, human rights, and personal and public health. Our unique programming was led by educators who are both passionate about this work and trained in leading and facilitating challenging conversations with students who are often learning about these issues for the first time. The Organization also accomplished leadership development. In the Leadership Academy, participants gained the tools to build the foundation for structural change in your institutions and communities. Participants will have the option to apply to continue in the academic-year fellowship, which runs for the fall and spring terms. In the academic-year fellowship, each fellow worked with New Roots Institute and a partner organization towards an individualized campaign to drive change on their campus and in their communities. Fellows received coaching, mentorship, and access to learning and…
$1,222,118 spentof which $66,925 as grants$18,761 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,222,118.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2.6M to $3.9M (+49%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of New Roots Institute’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 19 funders, grant income rose $25k → $1.0M.
17 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of New Roots Institute’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
New Roots Institute has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
70% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund New Roots Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 54% · 2020 42% · 2021 28% · 2022 32% · 2023 38% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of New Roots Institute's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
51% of New Roots Institute's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.0M that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from funders outside California, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
New Roots Institute runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 605 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like New Roots Institute
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 24 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for New Roots Institute: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds New Roots Institute?
- New Roots Institute (California) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,067,410 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($979,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does New Roots Institute have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $6,067,410 in grants to New Roots Institute, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of New Roots Institute?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $979,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like New Roots Institute find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 48 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing