Wisconsin · Nonprofit
GATHERING GROUND INC
GATHERING GROUND INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,951 to it, the largest being DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($10,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $222k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $498k
What Gathering Ground Inc does
Mission
We envision thriving communities connected to the environment and their food through work and play. We cultivate community and learning in partnership with the generous earth through agriculture.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Community outreach. Help people learn about farming and gardening and give them an opportunity to experience it. Held outreach programs including the farm and field bike tour, the garden tour, harvest day, and dinner in the vineyard.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Chestnut breeding for northern climates. In our chestnut orchard and nursery we have planted over 700 chestnut trees, breeding specifically for trees that will produce nut with a low number of degree days, suited to our climate. We are looking to develop a valuable food crop for our region that doesn't require annual tillage. Working with partner organizations in ohio, michigan, and wisconsin, we chose genetics that will ripen early.
$24,000 spent42% of program spendingCommunity gardening. To provide a place for people to learn about gardening, orcharding and preservation, we are developing a community garden where all ages can come together and grow vegetables, plant fruit and nut trees, and enjoy the harvest. Our community garden is also adding to the food security of our community by donating produce to our community pantry, families with school-age children, and the elderly.
$20,000 spent35% of program spendingGround school, young adult education on climate-smart and sustainable agriculture. In its 7th year, ground school is now a 10-week program that combines hand on learning in the field, practicing climate-smart agricultural techniques and seminar studies around current topics in agriculture and food equity. We have reached students from across the country.
$2,678 spent5% of program spendingCommunity outreach. See schedule o.
$10,000 spent$7,000 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $56,678.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $342k to $498k (+46%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
94% of GATHERING GROUND INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5 → $2k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of GATHERING GROUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
GATHERING GROUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund GATHERING GROUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
83% of GATHERING GROUND INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
GATHERING GROUND INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding GATHERING GROUND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$20k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GATHERING GROUND INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GATHERING GROUND INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GATHERING GROUND INC?
- GATHERING GROUND INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,951 to it, the largest being DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($10,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GATHERING GROUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $24,951 in grants to GATHERING GROUND INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GATHERING GROUND INC?
- DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GATHERING GROUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing