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ROOTS FUND INCORPORATED

EIN 85-2112719 STAMFORD, CT

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Revenue 2025
$674,901
Expenses 2025
$549,739

Program services were 87.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B60
Classification
1200
Street
1127 HIGH RIDGE ROAD SUITE 117

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

THE ROOTS FUND WAS CREATED TO EMPOWER COMMUNITIES OF COLOR BY PROVIDING RESOURCES AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT THROUGH EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS, WINE EDUCATION, MENTORSHIP, AND CAREER PLACEMENT. THE ROOTS FUND IS COMMITTED TO INVESTING IN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES TO THOSE SEEKING A CAREER/EDUCATION IN ALL ASPECTS OF WINE.

  • OUR SCHOLARSHIPS INCREASED BY 50%, WITH OFFERING INTO THE COURT MASTERS SOMMELIER, WINE SCHOLARS GUILD, AND OFFERING TUITION TO WASHINGTON STATE FOR A NEW ENOLOGY PROGRAM. WE EXECUTED A VARIETY OF TUTORING PROGRAMS IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH FOR BEVERAGE PROFESSIONALS. THIS WORK LANDED US RECOGNITION ON CBS FOR OUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDUCATION IN WINE FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR.

    Expenses $350,707 · Grants $135,083

  • TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN CERTIFICATIONS AND KNOWLEDGE YOU MUST TRAVEL THE WINE WORLD. SCHOLARS TRAVELED TO FRANCE, OREGON, FINGER LAKES, AND CALIFORNIA. SCHOLARS LIVED IN THESE REGIONS, STUDIED THE CULTURE, ATE THE FOOD, AND DRANK WINES WITH THE BEST PRODUCERS IN THE WORLD. THESE EXPERIENCES MAY HAVE BEEN THE FIRST TRAVEL EXCURSIONS FOR MANY SCHOLARS. THESE ENRICHMENT TRIPS BRING THE BOOK STUDIES TO LIFE.

    Expenses $130,625

  • CAREER DEVELOPMENT - 60% OF THE SCHOLARS IN OUR PROGRAM WERE PLACED IN CAREERS IN WINE & SPIRITS. DESPITE RESTAURANT CLOSURES AND HOSPITALITY PROGRAMS MINIMIZING STAFF, WE WERE ABLE TO HELP PLACE MOST OF OUR SCHOLARS. BUILDING EXTENSIVE CAREER PATHWAYS WITH LEVELS OF MENTORSHIP AND NETWORKING HAS BROUGHT SUCCESS. 40% OF OUR SCHOLARS LANDED IN EARLY MANAGEMENT ROLES THAT WILL ELAD TO PROMOTIONS WITHIN 18 MONTHS OF EMPLOYMENT.

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Ikimi Woodson

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $113,173
    From this org
    $113,173
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carlton McCoy Jr

    DIRECTOR/CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Zohna Jones

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Jeremy Seysses

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Santosh Varghese

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Darryl Matthews

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Jamila Janneh

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $674,901
    Expenses
    $549,739
    Contributions
    $674,901
    Grants paid
    $135,083
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $302,899
    Expenses
    $341,699
    Contributions
    $302,899
    Grants paid
    $102,068
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $872,267
    Expenses
    $942,692
    Contributions
    $872,267
    Grants paid
    $427,118
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,020,514
    Expenses
    $1,065,962
    Contributions
    $1,020,514
    Grants paid
    $27,635

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $416,741
    Expenses
    $493,763
    Assets (EOY)
    $165,204

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $274,299
    Expenses
    $69,703
    Assets (EOY)
    $204,689

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.