Connecticut · Nonprofit
GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC
GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,560,540 to it, the largest being GROUNDWORK USA INC ($622,897). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $378k
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $107k
What Groundwork Bridgeport Inc does
Mission
Groundwork bridgeport's mission is to bring about the sustained regeneration improvements and management of the physical environment by empowering people, businesses and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social well being.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Place based service-learning programour service-learning program caters to high-school youth who reside in our program cities. The program takes place year-round during 4 different sessions. Youth can participate in one of our four (4) sessions starting in january (winter), april (spring), july (summer), or october (fall) each year depending on available space. The program combines classroom instruction and stewardship projects over the course of eight weeks. The program develops youth skills in leadership, community engagement, and placemaking with a focus on physical and social interventions that can revitalize a community.during class time, participants learn skills related to project management, design, and presenting to audiences as well as topics related to civic engagement and placemaking including landscape design and architecture, storytelling, and other subjects. Classroom instruction is supplemented with community service projects that tie back to what was taught and are driven by student ideas.benefitsyouth who participate in our service-learning program are also eligible to participate in our outdoor experiences program which takes participants on experiential…
$431,491 spentof which $34,954 as grants$5,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $431,491.
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 2023 to 2024, from $321k to $173k (−46%).
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: 2020 26% · 2021 12% · 2022 21% · 2023 2% · 2024 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $105k → $201k.
5 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 40% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
76% 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 GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 60% · 2019 29% · 2020 25% · 2021 13% · 2022 50% · 2023 59% — 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
36% of GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $139k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC has grown faster than half of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record — $1.9M federal, $132k state.
- Department of Agriculture$1.9M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$131k
- sponsorship$1k
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 GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT 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 GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC?
- GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,560,540 to it, the largest being GROUNDWORK USA INC ($622,897). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $1,560,540 in grants to GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC?
- GROUNDWORK USA INC is the largest funder on record, with $622,897 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 33 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