Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
GRASSROOTS HEALTH
GRASSROOTS HEALTH (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,372,569 to it, the largest being BENDER FOUNDATION INC ($650,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $592k
What Grassroots Health does
Mission
Grassroots Health advances health equity in cities by using sports to re-imagine health education in middle schools and mobilizing ncaa athletes as health educators and role models for youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
School community-based health education we provide 1 sports-based health education programs in middle schools, 2 health communication workshops for parents and caregivers of middle school students, and 3 linkages to clinical and social services for students and their families. We use an asset-based approach to health promotion and youth development, and our innovative curricula cover the topics of mental, nutritional, and sexual health, including 30 one-hour sessions. Our curricula use physical activity and sports as an avenue for teaching health messages and dismantling the stigma associated with sensitive health topics. All of our curricula are implemented by trained college student-athlete volunteer health educators. Grassroots Health completed in-school health education programming with 1,750 middle school students, 85 parents/caregivers, and hosted 4 grassroots connect health fairs.
$355,735 spent53% of program spendingCivic engagement leadership development we provide intensive training-of-facilitator workshops for volunteer college student-athlete health educators, including four-day, 16-hour training workshops in each of our curricula. We also devote resources to supporting the leadership development and impact-based service skills of our college student-athlete volunteers.
$199,189 spent30% of program spendingEvaluation communication of research in the spirit of ensuring evidence-based practice and community-informed approaches to health promotion, we devote significant resources to curriculum development and evaluation, the creation of research and evaluation partnerships, and the presentation of research findings at local, national, and international conferences.
$111,848 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $666,772.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2020 to 2021, from $166k to $938k (+463%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2018 21% · 2019 27% · 2020 30% · 2021 21% · 2022 33% · 2023 4% · 2024 25% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of GRASSROOTS HEALTH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jane Wallis
Executive director
Board chair
Christine Campbell
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $1k → $312k.
7 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 GRASSROOTS HEALTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 29 funders by total. 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
GRASSROOTS HEALTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
29% 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 GRASSROOTS HEALTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 51% · 2019 74% · 2020 84% · 2021 83% · 2022 62% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
29% of GRASSROOTS HEALTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
55% of GRASSROOTS HEALTH's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
GRASSROOTS HEALTH holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GRASSROOTS HEALTH
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
49%
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 GRASSROOTS HEALTH: 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 GRASSROOTS HEALTH?
- GRASSROOTS HEALTH (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,372,569 to it, the largest being BENDER FOUNDATION INC ($650,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRASSROOTS HEALTH have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,372,569 in grants to GRASSROOTS HEALTH, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRASSROOTS HEALTH?
- BENDER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRASSROOTS HEALTH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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