Texas · Nonprofit
Ground Game Fund
Ground Game Fund (Texas) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,310,744 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,835,154). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 102
- Grants received
- $8.3M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Ground Game Fund does
Mission
Ground Game Fund promotes democracy and social justice by engaging in community organizing and public education programs across Texas.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, Ground Game Fund advanced civic engagement and leadership development across Texas by educating and activating underrepresented communities - especially young, Black, and Latino residents - around local governance and policy change. We organized over events in communities across Austin, Dallas, Lockhart, the Rio Grande Valley, and San Marcos. These efforts helped community members better understand how local government functions, what ballot initiatives are, and how they can participate in shaping local policy. Ground Game Fund also collected over 60,000 written declarations of support for local policy changes - a key part of our education model that invites people to learn about proposed policies and express their values in writing. Many of these signers are infrequent voters who are not reached by traditional civic engagement efforts. Additionally, we worked on policy development and coalition building as we map out our strategy from 2030 in Texas. We also started designing a new phase of our Community Crews initiative - a nonpartisan leadership development program that will train and support local organizers to host regular educational gatherings, provide civic…
$1,807,559 spentof which $597,438 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,807,559.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $1k to $1.0M (+84097%).
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.
99% of Ground Game Fund’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $995k → $1.4M.
36 of 102 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 Ground Game Fund’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 102 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
Ground Game Fund has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
77% 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 Ground Game Fund.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 40% · 2021 67% · 2022 38% · 2023 18% — 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
15% of Ground Game Fund's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% 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
61% of Ground Game Fund'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 $3.2M that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 19 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
Ground Game Fund runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,003 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Ground Game Fund
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 Texas
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
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Ground Game Texas · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ground Game Fund: 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 Ground Game Fund?
- Ground Game Fund (Texas) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,310,744 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,835,154). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Ground Game Fund have?
- IRS filings report 102 organizations giving $8,310,744 in grants to Ground Game Fund, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ground Game Fund?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,835,154 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ground Game Fund find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 102 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