Center for Economic Democracy Inc
Boston, MA · EIN 47-3589804. Reported 59 grants totalling $2,111,375 to 36 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Center for Economic Democracy Inc, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S30) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 36 distinct organizations, with 14% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 67% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $13,580 and $35,000; the smallest was $5,280 and the largest $220,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayni Institute Inc | Revere, MA | $290,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Resist Inc | Jamaica Plain, MA | $289,500 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chinatown Community Land Trust Inc | Boston, MA | $196,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc | Roxbury, MA | $183,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Center for Cooperative Development and Solidarity Inc | East Boston, MA | $160,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brazilian Womens Group Inc | Boston, MA | $137,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Urban Revival Inc | Jamaica Plain, MA | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chinatown People Progressive Association Inc | Boston, MA | $83,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Alternatives for Community and Enviroment Inc | Roxbury, MA | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Fii - National | Concord, CA | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts Action Fund Inc | Worcester, MA | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Community Labor United Incorporated | Boston, MA | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Center for Popular Economics Inc | Amherst, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Amauta LLC | Salt Lake City, UT | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts Education Fund Inc | Worcester, MA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Right to the City Alliance Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| La Colaborativa Inc | Chelsea, MA | $27,190 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Center for Labor Education and Research Inc | Jamaica Plain, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Alternatives for Community & Environment | Roxbury, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Black Economic Justice Institute in C | Hamden, CT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chinese Progressive Association | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Eastie Farm Inc | Boston, MA | $13,580 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc | Springfield, MA | $12,690 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Women Encouraging Empowerment Inc | Revere, MA | $11,915 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Essex County Community Organization | Lynn, MA | $11,340 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Multicultural AIDS Coalition Inc | Boston, MA | $11,290 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Asian American Resource Workshop Inc | Dorchester, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| U S Solidarity Economy Network Inc | Springfield, MA | $7,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Black Farmer Fund Inc | New York, NY | $6,745 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| La Comunidad | Everett, MA | $6,260 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Roxbury Cultural District Inc | Roxbury, MA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Union Capital Boston Inc | Boston, MA | $5,903 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Third Sector New England Inc | Boston, MA | $5,802 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Providence Youth Student Movement | Providence, RI | $5,680 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Worcester Youth Cooperatives Inc | Jamaica Plain, MA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| South Asian Workers Center | Braintree, MA | $5,280 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
10 of 36 (28%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Ayni Institute
SOLIDARITY ECONOMY INITITAVE GRANT - Chinatown Community Land Trust
SEI GRANT TO CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST - Center for Cooperative Development & Solidarity
GRANT AWARD LETTER FOR SOLIDARITY ECONOMY HEADQUARTERS PROJECT - Resist
GRANT TO RESOURCE ORGANIZING PROJECT & MOVEMENT SPACE - Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
GRANT TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY LAND TRUST - Uptogether
GRANT AWARD FOR BEAUTIFUL SEED FUND
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 30 of 36 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 28 | $537,430 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 9 | $396,000 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 9 | $481,745 | $20,000 |
| 2024 | 13 | $696,200 | $28,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
90% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $20,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Massachusetts.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Center for Economic Democracy Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 12 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 769 Centre Street 143, Boston, MA, 02130.
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