New York · Nonprofit
GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT INC
GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,685,329 to it, the largest being BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($348,205). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $816k
What Groundswell Community Mural Project Inc does
Mission
Groundswell is new york city's leading community public art organization, have completed nearly 500 murals over the course of a nearly 20-year history. Annually,groundswell engages nearly 800 underserved, marginalized, andeconomically disadvantaged young people, primarily ages 14-24, from newyorks most diverse communities, in our public artmaking programs tocreate 50+ annual public art projects that beautify neighborhoods,engage youth in societal and personal transformation, and giveexpression to ideas and perspectives that are underrepresented in thepublic dialogue.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During fiscal year 2025, groundswell worked with approximately 360young people, 21 professional teaching artists, and multiple communitypartners to produce 17 collaboratively-designed murals and additionalsocial justice-related artworks, in numerous neighborhoods in brooklyn,queens, and manhattan. In fiscal year 202, groundswell worked with 340young people, 25 professional teaching artists, and multiple communitypartners to complete 18 collaboratively-designed art projects, plusvarious multimedia projects, in numerous neighborhoods across fourboroughs.groundswells studio programs (introduction to portfolio, advancedportfolio, murals for change, print power, youth curatorial committee,and voices herd) and the summer leadership institute served 81 youngpeople with guidance from 10 teaching artists, and in partnership withcommunity-based organizations (such as fifth avenue committee andraices). Several youth participants enrolled in multiple sessions ofgroundswell programs over the course of the year.groundswell partnered with 12 schools for our school-based programming,providing afterschool arts programs for 176 students, guided by 12teaching artists. Schools selected from a…
$1,055,819 spent$269,350 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,055,819.
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 2018 to 2019, from $2.3M to $1.6M (−31%).
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 39% · 2018 28% · 2019 38% · 2020 23% · 2021 20% · 2022 38% · 2023 54% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $133k → $500k.
16 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% 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
41% 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 GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 53% · 2019 27% · 2020 27% · 2021 24% · 2022 21% · 2023 20% — 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
33% of GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
89% of GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT INC's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $203k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$203k
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 GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT 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 GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT INC?
- GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,685,329 to it, the largest being BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($348,205). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $2,685,329 in grants to GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT INC?
- BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $348,205 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 47 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