Wisconsin · Nonprofit
GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC
GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,572,887 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($305,998). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC has grown faster than half of the 881 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 881 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Community Shares of Wisconsin Incshared funderslocal
- Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trustportfolio match
- Heart of the Rockies Initiativeportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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: 2018 29% · 2019 80% · 2020 68% · 2021 33% · 2022 35% · 2023 23% · 2024 26% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $15k → $357k.
9 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $25k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Groundswell Conservancy Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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 CONSERVANCY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
61% 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 CONSERVANCY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 23% · 2019 43% · 2020 27% · 2021 17% · 2022 20% · 2023 47% — growing more concentrated.
“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
35% of GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
53% of GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY 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 $735k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $838k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 39 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Community Shares of Wisconsin Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 65 organizations near you
- Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Heart of the Rockies Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Butler Parklands Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Atira Conservation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Page Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Trout Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Open Space Institute Land Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Dane County Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 105 organizations that share your funders · funds 185 organizations near you
- Madison Rotary Foundationshared funderslocalWI · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · funds 46 organizations near you
- Summit Credit Unionshared funderslocalWI · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · funds 36 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $880k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$780k
- Department of the Interior$100k
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 CONSERVANCY INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 CONSERVANCY 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC?
- GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,572,887 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($305,998). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $1,572,887 in grants to GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $305,998 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 39funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing