· Public charity
Groundwork USA Inc
The mission of groundwork usa (the organization) is to bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social well-being.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+3 grants · $839k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GROUNDWORK SAN DIEGO | $307,654 |
| GROUNDWORK LAWRENCE | $278,463 |
| GROUNDWORK HUDSON VALLEY | $252,596 |
| GROUNDWORK KANSAS CITY | $219,366 |
| GROUNDWORK SOUTHCOAST | $167,241 |
| GROUNDWORK OHIO RIVER VALLEY | $163,789 |
| GROUNDWORK NEW ORLEANS | $146,600 |
| GROUNDWORK RHODE ISLAND | $136,296 |
| GROUNDWORK ELIZABETH | $133,214 |
| GROUNDWORK MILWAUKEE | $126,233 |
| GROUNDWORK JACKSONVILLE | $85,419 |
| GROUNDWORK ERIE | $82,993 |
| GROUNDWORK RVA | $80,000 |
| RIVER NETWORK | $71,973 |
| GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT | $61,515 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
23 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $228k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
Groundwork Lawrence Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +115%
RIVER NETWORK8× · 2017–2024 · $974k · revenue +44%- GEGROUNDWORK ELIZABETH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $970k · revenue +121% · 37% of their budget
Funded once
- NWNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $69k · revenue +72%
- GDGreenspace Dallasgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +110%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social…
Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities partners to create enduring and equitable local solutions that preserve the environment, strengthen the economy, and create healthy, thriving communities that people cherish, protect, and nuture.
The Corporation is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. Earthworks is dedicated to protecting communities and the environment from the impacts of irresponsible mineral and energy development while seeking…
To transform blighted underserved areas into green spaces
Asheville GreenWorks inspires, equips and mobilizes communities to create an equitable climate-resilient future.
To serve as catalyst for developing sustainability in the mill creek watershed through community-based planning and empowerment, environmental education, and economically sound ecological restoration.
To get the most good out of green infrastructure. Every community deserves the full benefits of green infrastructure, so Greenprint Communities helps local organizations build capacity and secure grant funding for programs that maximize…
Our mission is to revitalize and re-engage the community by reconnecting to the Earth through land stewardship, food sovereignty, sustainability, and herbalism.
Renew Richmond strives to build healthier, more self-empowered communities by involving local youth in agriculture and environmental sustainability. We do this by partnering with local public schools.
Grassroots Gardens of Western New York, Inc.'s mission is to share knowledge, power and resources to grow healthy food, heal systemic harm, and strengthen neighborhood connections through community gardens.
18,000 native trees planted and public education about the positive impact on air and water quality, community health, and the local economy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groundwork Ohio River Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Groundwork Lawrence Inc ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK HUDSON VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK ELIZABETH INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK OHIO RIVER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds Groundwork San Diego-Chollas Creek ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST NEIGHBORHOOD REVITALIZATION ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK RVA INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK SOMERVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds Green Works In Kansas City ↗
- Who funds Groundwork Richmond Inc ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Groundwork Indy Inc ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK ERIE INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Creative Land Recycling ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds Greenspace Dallas ↗
- Who funds LEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Patagoniaorg · River Network · Rei Cooperative Action Fund · Surdna Foundation Inc · The Nature Conservancy · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Groundwork USA Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Groundwork Bridgeport Inc — 100% of income from government
- Groundwork Somerville Inc — 12% of income from government
- Groundwork Elizabeth Inc — 9% of income from government
- Groundwork Jacksonville Inc — 3% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.