North Carolina · Nonprofit
GROUNDED BOOTS RELIEF
GROUNDED BOOTS RELIEF (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50 to it, the largest being SAWYER FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TR ($50). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $46k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50
- Net assets
- $33k
What Grounded Boots Relief does
Mission
Charitable
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Our "Ready Neighbor" program focuses on preparing the community before natural disasters happen. We teach classes including AED and stop the bleed so that our community can feel better prepared and more empowered. For 2025, this benefited approximately 100 people.
Signal Forward is Grounded Boots Relief?s communications and connectivity program, designed to restore, strengthen, and maintain reliable communications during disasters and severe weather events. This has helped hundreds in the community.
Fleet Forward is Grounded Boots Relief?s equipment and fleet readiness program, focused on maintaining, upgrading, stocking, and sustaining the vehicles, trailers, generators, and operational equipment that make disaster response possible
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
John Badger
Founder & Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of GROUNDED BOOTS RELIEF’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.
Where its funders are
GROUNDED BOOTS RELIEF draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
GROUNDED BOOTS RELIEF runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like GROUNDED BOOTS RELIEF
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GROUNDED BOOTS RELIEF: 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 GROUNDED BOOTS RELIEF?
- GROUNDED BOOTS RELIEF (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50 to it, the largest being SAWYER FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TR ($50). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROUNDED BOOTS RELIEF have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50 in grants to GROUNDED BOOTS RELIEF.
- Who is the largest funder of GROUNDED BOOTS RELIEF?
- SAWYER FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TR is the largest funder on record, with $50 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROUNDED BOOTS RELIEF find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 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