Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Rootsuprising Incorporated
Rootsuprising Incorporated (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $35k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $7k
What Rootsuprising Incorporated does
Mission
RootsUprising is dedicated to raising and lifting up the untold stories of marginalized groups of people especially the BIPOC communities through the language of dance as a means for transformation. RootsUprising is grounded in the belief that there is healing in the act of storytelling stories that are housed in the body that become understood through the body in motion. Considering dance as text and text as dance RootsUprising aims to deepen the conversation of what equitable social justice can be.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Who We Say We Are WWSWA - This program was a choreographic multimedia town hall on citizenship that centered the question: Who gets to call themselves a member of this community and how in fact do they do it? WWSWA employed film audio interviews dance and community conversations to expose the present and lived reality of systemic racism tethering Boston. The dancers of RootsUprising a collective of intergenerational BIPOC women with diverse origins and connections with Boston offered a glimpse into their lived experiences as dancers and as people with multiple intersecting identities. Through a choreographic weaving of audio voice-overs movement documentation and live dance performance WWSWE helped viewers navigate through the social construct of race and identity in Boston interspersed with recorded interviews with Boston-area leaders for an additional layer of perspectives. There were three hundred and five audience members.
$28,000 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $28,000.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Rootsuprising Incorporated’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Rootsuprising Incorporated's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Rootsuprising Incorporated runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Rootsuprising Incorporated?
- Rootsuprising Incorporated (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Rootsuprising Incorporated have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $30,000 in grants to Rootsuprising Incorporated.
- Who is the largest funder of Rootsuprising Incorporated?
- NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rootsuprising Incorporated find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 1 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