Texas · Public charity
Ground Game Fund
Ground Game Fund promotes democracy and social justice by engaging in community organizing and public education programs across Texas.
- $597k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2024
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $292,658
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Ground Game Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 5 | $592k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $488k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $1.7M | 78% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $1.4M | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $118k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ground Game Texas | $1,743,000 | 3 | 56% |
| WV Freedom Alliance | $1,075,630 | 1 | n/a |
| Future Now Action | $1,000,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Soul Food Community Development Corporation Inc | $371,080 | 3 | 27% |
| Courier Newsroom Inc | $292,658 | 1 | n/a |
| Community News Center | $275,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Center for Common Ground | $263,866 | 2 | 7% |
| Un-Pac Action | $125,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Working America Education Fund | $120,100 | 2 | 1% |
| NEO Philanthropy Inc | $116,233 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ground Game Texas | $1,743,000 | 3 | 56% |
| WV Freedom Alliance | $1,075,630 | 1 | n/a |
| Future Now Action | $1,000,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Soul Food Community Development Corporation Inc | $371,080 | 3 | 27% |
| Courier Newsroom Inc | $292,658 | 1 | n/a |
| Community News Center | $275,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Center for Common Ground | $263,866 | 2 | 7% |
| Un-Pac Action | $125,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Working America Education Fund | $120,100 | 2 | 1% |
| NEO Philanthropy Inc | $116,233 | 1 | 0% |
| Public Policy and Education Fund of New York Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Commonwealth Foundation Inc | $77,500 | 1 | 5% |
| Worker Power Institute | $65,500 | 2 | 7% |
| Workmoney Foundation Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cbates | $38,145 | 1 | n/a |
| Network Education Program Network Advocates for Catholic Social Justice | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Bridges to Empowerment | $9,500 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Ground Game Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
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About Ground Game Fund
- How much does Ground Game Fund give?
- Ground Game Fund reported 5 grants totaling $597,438 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Ground Game Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (57%), Civil Rights (18%), Education (5%).
- Who are Ground Game Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Ground Game Texas ($1.7M), WV Freedom Alliance ($1.1M), Future Now Action ($1.0M).
- Does Ground Game Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ground Game Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, Hopewell Fund, Tides Foundation.
- Where is Ground Game Fund based?
- Ground Game Fund is based in TX.
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