Grassroots International Inc
Boston, MA · EIN 04-2791159. Reported 96 grants totalling $7,440,129 to 40 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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 Grassroots International Inc, the IRS classifies it under international affairs rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE Q330) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 40 distinct organizations, with 23% 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 $30,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $70,000; the smallest was $8,000 and the largest $1,455,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apoyo Legal Al Emprendimiento Comunitario Inc | Caguas, PR | $1,697,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Instituto Para La Investigacin Y Accin En Agroecologa | San Juan | $931,300 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Grassroots Global Justice | Washington, DC | $584,829 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Indigenous Educational Network of Turtle Island | Bemidji, MN | $480,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Coordinadora Paz Para La Mujer Inc | San Juan, PR | $403,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Institute for Socio-Ecological Research | Lajas, PR | $397,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Haser Inc | San Juan, PR | $353,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Comedores Sociales De Puerto Rico Inc | Caguas, PR | $341,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Tides Center | San Francisco, CA | $275,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc | Calabasas, CA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Education for Just Peace in the Middle East | Washington, DC | $185,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| National Family Farm Coalition | Washington, DC | $175,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Federation of Southern Cooperatives Land Assistance Fund | Atlanta, GA | $145,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Earth Island Institute Inc | Berkeley, CA | $123,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Global Justice Ecology Project Inc | Randolph, NY | $95,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ayuda Legal Puerto Rico Inc | San Juan, PR | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Plataforma Agro-Cultural Para El Empoderamiento | San Juan | $79,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Global Greengrants Fund Inc | Boulder, CO | $70,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Colectivo Ile | Caguas | $63,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Colectivo Ile Corporacion | Caguas, PR | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| North American Marine Alliance Inc | Gloucester, MA | $55,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Agitarte | Cambridge, MA | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Center for the Study of the Americas Incorporated | Berkeley, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Harambee House Inc | Savannah, GA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Agrarian Land Trust | S Royalton, VT | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Climate Justice Alliance | Los Angeles, CA | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Whyhunger Inc | New York, NY | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cooperation Jackson | Jackson, MS | $39,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice | Commerce, CA | $39,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Interfaith Peace-Builders | Washington, DC | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Domestic Workers United Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $28,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bold Training Institute Inc | Hawkinsville, GA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Gwichin Steering Committee | Fairbanks, AK | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Inter-Religious Foundation for Community Organization Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Iniciativa De Ecodesarollo De Bahia De Jobos | Aguirre | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Micronesia Climate Change Alliance Inc | Tamuning, GU | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Latin American and Caribbean Community Center | Bronx, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Friends Service Committee | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Just Transition Alliance | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Plataforma Agro-Cultural Para El Empoderamiento Comunitario | San Juan | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
25 of 40 (62%) 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.
- Instituto Para La Investigacin Y Accin En Agroecologa
LAND AND RESOURCE RIGHTS OF RURAL PEOPLE - Indigenous Educational Network of Turtle Island
INDIGENOUS RIGHTS, WOMEN'S RIGHTS, COVID SUPPORT - Tides Center
LEGAL SUPPORT AND EDUCATION - Haser
CULTURAL AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT - Global Justice Ecology Project
EDUCATION FOR CLIMATE SOLUTIONS - Plataforma Agro-Cultural Para El Empoderamiento
COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT & TRADITIONAL MEDICINE
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 of 40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 24 | $1,643,429 | $32,500 |
| 2021 | 26 | $2,792,800 | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 24 | $1,536,000 | $30,000 |
| 2023 | 22 | $1,467,900 | $30,000 |
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
53% of its giving went to organizations in Puerto Rico. 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 $30,000 -- 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 Puerto Rico.
- 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 Grassroots International Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 21 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: 867 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 02116.
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