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Groundswell Charitable Foundation

To empower modern philanthropists with the tools they need to build bridges between companies and nonprofits to foster smart philanthropy for maximum impact to charitable causes.

$4.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$330k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

International$2.0MRecreation & Sports$348kPhilanthropy$275kEducation$257kHealth$241kHousing & Shelter$185kYouth Development$123kHuman Services$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 56 grants below total $1,814,318, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,463,378 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,649,060 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $639k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $530k
  • $250k+2 grants · $580k
$10,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEAM RUBICON$330,000
LAS VEGAS SUPER BOWL HOST COMMITTEE CHARITIES$250,000
BETTER ANGELS UNITED INC$175,000
MELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION$90,000
INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE GAMING$75,000
MISSION OF HOPE$75,000
PERSON TO PERSON INC$64,500
SON OF A SAINT$50,000
CHARITYVEST INC$48,125
CHELSEA PIERS FOUNDATION$46,800
MINDS MATTER$46,000
COLGATE UNIVERSITY TREASURERS OFFICE$40,013
TRUMAN CENTER FOR NATIONAL POLICY$30,000
PX PROJECT INC$27,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION$25,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $257k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAMPHILL FOUNDATION: $15k → 6%CHELSEA PIERS FOUNDATION: $47k → 17%PROJECT SAVIOR OUTDOORS: $10k → 6%CAMPHILL FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%BETTER ANGELS UNITED INC: $175k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
WI
NY
MA
NV
PA
CT
CA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 11 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
16

Total granted

$2.3M
$246k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+32%

Still filing today

91%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
PhilanthropyEducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MO
    MISSION OF HOPE INC MISSION OF HOPE HAITI INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $125k · revenue +4%
  • PT
    PERSON TO PERSON INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $94k · revenue +32%
  • CU
    COLGATE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $66k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • LO
    LA-TECH ORG
    one grant, 2023 · $52k · revenue +3%
  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +40%
  • BA
    BERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL VENTURES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +26%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
4
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
5
Dominican University of California

Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.

Education
6
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
10
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Santa Barbara Outrigger Canoe Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 73 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/67
Grantees still filing
34/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEAM RUBICON INC: $1,803,032 · Public Safety & DisasterTEAM RUBICON INC+1 more: $11,500 · Public Safety & DisasterLAS VEGAS SUPER BOWL HOST COMMITTEE CHARITIES INC: $250,000 · OtherLAS VEGAS SUPER BOWL H…MINDS MATTER OF LOS ANGELES INC: $51,250 · OtherMINDS MATTER OF LOS AN…SON OF A SAINT: $50,000 · OtherSON OF A SAINTPX Project Inc: $37,000 · OtherTRUMAN CENTER FOR NATIONAL POLICY: $30,000 · Other+29 more: $336,431 · Other+29 morePERSON TO PERSON INC: $94,300 · PhilanthropyPERSON TO PE…International Center for Responsible Gaming: $75,000 · PhilanthropyInternationa…LA-TECH ORG: $52,000 · PhilanthropyLA-TECH ORGCHARITYVEST INC: $48,125 · PhilanthropyCHARITYVEST …UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $38,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWIS…ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD F…UNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY F…+6 more: $47,500 · Philanthropy+6 moreBETTER ANGELS UNITED INC: $175,000 · Human ServicesCHELSEA PIERS FOUNDATION: $46,800 · Human ServicesCAMPHILL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT SAVIOR OUTDOORS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT BY PROJECT INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $66,026 · EducationSanta Barbara Outrigger Canoe Club: $24,500 · EducationDavidson College: $20,000 · EducationCIVICS UNPLUGGED INC: $12,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10,750 · EducationFoundation for Fresno Unified Students: $10,000 · EducationSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationFERGUSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationLAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL: $6,000 · EducationMENLO PARK-ATHERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $6,000 · EducationMISSION OF HOPE INC MISSION OF HOPE HAITI INC: $125,000 · ReligionAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $25,000 · ReligionMIO Frontiers: $10,000 · ReligionMELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $90,000 · HealthDARIEN EMS POST 53 INC: $20,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 · HealthPARTNERSHIP FOR EXTRAORDINARY MINDS: $10,000 · HealthTHE RICK HERREMA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthHAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC: $8,108 · Health
Public Safety & Disaster$1,814,532Other$754,681Philanthropy$409,925Human Services$266,800Education$175,276Religion$160,000Health$148,108

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $1,803,032 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetLAS VEGAS SUPER BOWL HOST COMMITTEE CHARITIES INC: $250,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBETTER ANGELS UNITED INC: $175,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetMISSION OF HOPE INC MISSION OF HOPE HAITI INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC: $94,300 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetInternational Center for Responsible Gaming: $75,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $66,026 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA-TECH ORG: $52,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF LOS ANGELES INC: $51,250 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetSON OF A SAINT: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHARITYVEST INC: $48,125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHELSEA PIERS FOUNDATION: $46,800 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $38,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPX Project Inc: $37,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetTRUMAN CENTER FOR NATIONAL POLICY: $30,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPHILL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Outrigger Canoe Club: $24,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetBERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL VENTURES INC: $20,250 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOceanic Society Expeditions: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDARIEN EMS POST 53 INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetDavidson College: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $17,245 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINVESTOR CHOICE ADVOCATES NETWORK: $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE NEW GROUP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILD CENTER OF NY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTOMOTIVE MENTORING GROUP INC: $12,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCIVICS UNPLUGGED INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetONE805 INC: $11,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $10,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUNADA BAY LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $10,101 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR EXTRAORDINARY MINDS: $10,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCredit Abuse Resistance Education Los Angeles: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetFoundation for Fresno Unified Students: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOne Drop Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT SAVIOR OUTDOORS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDOOR OF HOPE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT BY PROJECT INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCAROLINA FOR KIBERA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Salesforce FoundationJewish Community Fede…The Ayco Charitable F…Jewish Communal FundThe Chicago Community…National Philanthropi…The Goldman Sachs Cha…American Endowment Fo…Chubb Charitable Foun…Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY15.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Salesforce Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Groundswell Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Groundswell Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Berkshire Agricultural Ventures Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Groundswell Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Groundswell Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home