How much does Groundwork USA Inc give?

Groundwork USA Inc reported 23 grants totaling $2,557,143 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Groundwork USA Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (59%), Environment (38%), Philanthropy (1%).

Who are Groundwork USA Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Groundwork Lawrence Inc ($1.5M), Groundwork Hudson Valley Inc ($1.0M), River Network ($974k).

Does Groundwork USA Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Groundwork USA Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Patagoniaorg, River Network.

Where is Groundwork USA Inc based?

Groundwork USA Inc is based in NY.

Groundwork USA Inc

Groundwork USA Inc at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· 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.

$2.6M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$308k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$7.7MEnvironment$4.9MPhilanthropy$180kEmployment$127kAnimals$69kArts & Culture$9k

02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $9k
$10k–50k7 grants · $235k
$50k–250k12 grants · $1.5M
$250k+3 grants · $839k

$82,993

Median grant

States reached

$9.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$13M · 23 repeat orgs$307k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +115% since the first grant, against +110% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$13M

$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+115%

+110%

Still filing today

87%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $228k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementEnvironmentPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsAnimalsEducationOther

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

Groundwork Lawrence Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +115%
RIVER NETWORK
8× · 2017–2024 · $974k · revenue +139%
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GROUNDWORK ELIZABETH INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $970k · revenue +121% · 37% of their budget

Funded once

NW
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATIONgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $69k · revenue +72%
GD
Greenspace Dallasgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +110%

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.

Groundwork Southcoast Inc

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…

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Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities Inc

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.

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Green Roots

To transform blighted underserved areas into green spaces

Community Improvement

Earthworks

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…

Public Benefit

Asheville GreenWorks

Asheville GreenWorks inspires, equips and mobilizes communities to create an equitable climate-resilient future.

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Fresh Coast Communities dba Greenprint Communities

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…

Environment

Global Envirotech Initiative

Philanthropy

Workin Rootz

Our mission is to revitalize and re-engage the community by reconnecting to the Earth through land stewardship, food sovereignty, sustainability, and herbalism.

Environment

Groundwork Cincinnatimill Creek

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.

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Renew Richmond

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.

Environment

Groundswell International Inc

Groundswell International strenghtens communities to build healthy farming and food systems from the ground up.

International

Chicago Gateway Green Committee

To beautify chicagoland's expressway system, its gateways andneighborhoods surrounding the expressways.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groundwork Ohio River Valley Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 27 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/25

Grantees still filing

21/25

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Community Improvement$5,420,717Environment$4,966,314Philanthropy$1,043,011Recreation & Sports$970,392Other$307,495Education$219,366Animals$68,996Arts & Culture$8,655

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

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.

National Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC23.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Groundwork USA Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Groundwork USA Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

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