Ohio · Nonprofit
GROUNDWORK GROUP
GROUNDWORK GROUP (Ohio) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $910,145 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($324,620). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $37k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $910k
- Net assets
- $0
What Groundwork Group does
Mission
Groundwork Group serves charitable organizations with innovative it solutions that enhances program effectiveness, increases fundraising outreach, provides a secure technical infrastructure, and ongoing education to nonprofit leaders to meet the operational needs of their organization's mission.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Groundwork Group was organized in 2003 and incorporated in 2006 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our mission is to drive social impact by uniting innovative technology with business expertise to serve communities in need. We work exclusively to serve the information technology needs for charitable activities including technical infrastructure in the form of equipment, mission based application development, social media strategies, data analytics, and education services. Through a partnership of community volunteers, businesses, and it professionals, Groundwork Group offers unique and cost affordable solutions that enables charitable organization to manage their operations more efficiently.beginning in 2020, Groundwork Group introduced the neighborrelief fundraising platform. This platform is the first and only solution focused specifically on helping nonprofits administer and successfully engage donors in financial assistance programs for basic needs like phone bills, utilities, food or rent.
$49,035 spent$22,328 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $49,035.
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.
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 $1.2M to $0 (−100%).
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: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $93k → $227k.
8 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 GROUP’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.
How concentrated its funding is
GROUNDWORK GROUP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% 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
84% 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 GROUP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 60% · 2019 46% · 2020 24% · 2021 38% · 2022 27% · 2023 76% — broadly stable.
“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 GROUNDWORK GROUP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
59% of GROUNDWORK GROUP'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 $377k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $533k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like GROUNDWORK GROUP
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
53%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Tony R Wells Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GROUNDWORK GROUP: 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 GROUP?
- GROUNDWORK GROUP (Ohio) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $910,145 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($324,620). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GROUNDWORK GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $910,145 in grants to GROUNDWORK GROUP, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROUNDWORK GROUP?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $324,620 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROUNDWORK GROUP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 19 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