Massachusetts · Public charity
Groundwork Action Fund
To support community organizers, advocates, and activists working year-round in places traditionally under-resourced, excluded, and ignored; to invest in hyperlocal efforts that build sustainable political infrastructure, engage and educate voters, and build power for the underrepresented and disenfranchised; to advocate for a more…
- $239k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $166k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 5
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $242k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Groundwork Action Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 6 | $166k | 83% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $54k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $125k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $101k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama Values Progress | $76,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Conservation West Virginia | $75,000 | 1 | 65% |
| Red Dirt Collective | $52,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Oklahoma Voter Alliance Inc | $36,000 | 1 | 6% |
| WV Cant Wait Votes a Non-Profit Corporation | $26,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 7% |
| West Virginia Rivers Coalition Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Groundwork Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Massachusetts Voter Education Network Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 5% |
| United Women of Color | $25,000 | 1 | 17% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama Values Progress | $76,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Conservation West Virginia | $75,000 | 1 | 65% |
| Red Dirt Collective | $52,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Oklahoma Voter Alliance Inc | $36,000 | 1 | 6% |
| WV Cant Wait Votes a Non-Profit Corporation | $26,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 7% |
| West Virginia Rivers Coalition Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Groundwork Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Massachusetts Voter Education Network Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 5% |
| United Women of Color | $25,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Kanawha Institute for Social Research & Action Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| For West Virginia's Future Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Third Space Foundation | $10,250 | 1 | 1% |
| West Virginia Community Development Hub Inc | $5,150 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Groundwork Action Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 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 Groundwork Action Fund
- How much does Groundwork Action Fund give?
- Groundwork Action Fund reported 6 itemized grants totaling $166,400, out of $238,551 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Groundwork Action Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (40%), Environment (22%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Groundwork Action Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Alabama Values Progress ($77k), Conservation West Virginia ($75k), Red Dirt Collective ($52k).
- Does Groundwork Action Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Groundwork Action Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Tides Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Groundwork Action Fund based?
- Groundwork Action Fund is based in MA.
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