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Groundswell International Inc

Groundswell International Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,391,016 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($3,282,919). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$5.2M
Revenue FY2024
55
Funders on record
$17M
Grants received
$3.7M
Net assets
35/55 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 92%

Against its field

Groundswell International Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,604 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,604 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($738k)2018 Revenue 124 ($2.3M) Expenses 109 ($2.0M) Net assets 141 ($1.0M)2019 Revenue 106 ($2.0M) Expenses 117 ($2.1M) Net assets 120 ($886k)2020 Revenue 182 ($3.4M) Expenses 146 ($2.7M) Net assets 217 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 172 ($3.2M) Expenses 141 ($2.6M) Net assets 303 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 139 ($2.6M) Expenses 141 ($2.6M) Net assets 304 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 148 ($2.8M) Expenses 122 ($2.2M) Net assets 376 ($2.8M)2024 Revenue 280 ($5.2M) Expenses 234 ($4.3M) Net assets 502 ($3.7M)
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Revenue (280)Expenses (234)Net assets (502)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 4% · 2019 5% · 2020 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of Groundswell International Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,669 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$34k
17
$302k
18
$158k
19
$715k
20
$630k
21
$16k
22
$530k
23
$927k
24
10
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $942k → $2.5M.

18 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)36% 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 International Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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 International Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

37% 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 International Inc.

19%
largest funder
40%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 54% · 2019 20% · 2020 23% · 2021 21% · 2022 17% · 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

57% of Groundswell International Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

Groundswell International Inc draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 18 states in all.

WA
MN
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
DE
AZ
AR
NC
DC
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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20
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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.

03Its place in the field

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 55 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Organizations like Groundswell International 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 Washington, D.C.

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 4%Fundraising 5%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

60%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Groundswell International 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 International Inc?
Groundswell International Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,391,016 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($3,282,919). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Groundswell International Inc have?
IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $17,391,016 in grants to Groundswell International Inc, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Groundswell International Inc?
WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,282,919 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Groundswell International Inc 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 55funders 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