Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ROOTS OF DEVELOPMENT INC
ROOTS OF DEVELOPMENT INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,093,620 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($558,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $982k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $420k
What Roots of Development Inc does
Mission
Roots of development's mission is to help leaders in marginalized communities acquire the organizational skills and financial resources they need to manage their own development and sustainably improve quality of life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2023, roots of development continued supporting our haitian partner, rasin devlopman. With roots' help, rasin has strengthened itself internally by adopting new systems and bringing on new staff, allowing it to expand its work by reaching new areas of la gonave, strenthening existing programs, and initiating new partnerships throughout the island. Rasin grew its reach on the island to ten of eleven communal sections, impacting 75,000 people, and initiated 10 new partnerships with other organizations on the island. They also hired a new field coordinator, adding to their staff and strengthening their internal capacity.
$54,761 spentof which $25,944 as grants18% of program spendingWith our financial support, rasin provided 46 hours of training to 28 community leaders through the volonte pou chanjman program, the recipients of which went on to create and implement 9 community impact projects throughout the island, with rasin's support. They also replicated the trainings in their own communities, reaching an additional 154 people across 9 workshops. With roots' support, rasin held a second annual island-wide forum, attended by 80 people from ten communal sections; provided 226 women with training on the role of women in agriculture; taught 32 women to drive motorcycles; provided civic education and swim lessons to 20 adolescents; brought more than 200 citizens together for community dialogues; and supported the implementation of 17 community impact projects, including road infrastructure improvements, homestead agriculture establishment, school building rehabilitation, and more.
$222,085 spentof which $105,216 as grants$6,510 earned by the program73% of program spendingIn 2023, roots and rasin also continued making progress on our most significant and ambitious project to date, the construction of the la gonave community leadership & development center. The center will be an office and training space for rasin devlopman's operations, but beyond that, it will be a hub for community-led development around the world, where like-minded organizations can come together to share best practices and learn from one another. In july 2023, rasin devlopman brought 15 community leaders, many of them elected officials, to the site of the future la gonave community leadership & development center for a presentation of the design for the facility. Staff also presented the plans to the deputy mayor for anse-a galets. The architect for the center finalized the design and roots began fundraising for phase one of construction.
$27,380 spentof which $12,972 as grants9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $304,226.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2023 to 2024, from $163k to $428k (+162%).
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 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of ROOTS OF DEVELOPMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Chad Bissonnette
Executive director
Board chair
Rudy Brioche
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $42k → $116k.
7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 ROOTS OF DEVELOPMENT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
ROOTS OF DEVELOPMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 ROOTS OF DEVELOPMENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 50% · 2019 33% · 2020 50% · 2021 33% · 2022 35% · 2023 42% — growing more concentrated.
“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
67% of ROOTS OF DEVELOPMENT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
71% of ROOTS OF DEVELOPMENT INC'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 $317k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $777k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
ROOTS OF DEVELOPMENT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ROOTS OF DEVELOPMENT INC
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Fondation Rasin Devlopman · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROOTS OF DEVELOPMENT INC?
- ROOTS OF DEVELOPMENT INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,093,620 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($558,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ROOTS OF DEVELOPMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,093,620 in grants to ROOTS OF DEVELOPMENT INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROOTS OF DEVELOPMENT INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $558,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROOTS OF DEVELOPMENT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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