New York · Nonprofit
GROUNDWORK HUDSON VALLEY INC
GROUNDWORK HUDSON VALLEY INC (New York) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,738,673 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($850,790). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Groundwork Hudson Valley Inc does
Mission
Groundwork hudson valley's mission is to transform urban neighborhoods through partnerships that inspire young leaders and support local economic development.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community adaptation: groundwork hudson valley transforms and revitalizes underused areas to create benefits for both residents and local ecosystems. We collaborate with local partners to improve urban environments, fostering long-term renewal and enhancing the well-being of neighborhoods. Together, we clean and restore polluted rivers, remove invasive vines, plant native trees and shrubs, and collaborate with residents to address challenges such as flooding, excessive urban heat, and air quality. Youth play a key role in many of our restoration and conservation projects, gaining hands-on experience and becoming stewards of their local environment. In 2024 ten new air quality monitors improved pollution tracking, completed green storm water infrastructure projects boosted resilience to natural hazards, 1,326 trees were inventoried documenting theirs species, size, health, and ecological benefits across southwest yonkers and 3,961 yonkers residents were engaged to become climate advocates and ambassadors, increasing community awareness and action.
$766,754 spent$14,940 earned by the program52% of program spendingSustainability education: groundwork hudson valley provides experiential hands-on opportunities to promote practical sustainability education concepts and community preparedness. At the science barge, our floating education center, we transform theory into practice by making hands-on solutions tangible and relevant to thousands of students each year. Our educational programs for schools bring resource conservation, extreme weather preparedness strategies, and stem education directly to local classrooms, both in-person and virtually. Thousands of students across the region participate in our programs each year, transforming concepts they are learning in books into real-world applications. In 2024, our educators delivered 3,529 hours of important education to these young people. The science barge also serves as a floating urban farm growing over 75 species using alternative growing methods to teach our neighbors and their families how to grow their own food in an urban setting. The weekly harvests were shared with local food pantries.
$392,106 spent$37,784 earned by the program26% of program spendingYouth leadership: groundwork hudson valley trains, mentors, and employs youth in conservation, leadership, and real-world skill-building preparing them for careers in sustainability and beyond. Through the green team program, yonkers public high school students gain paid, hands-on job experience in conservation, stem, and urban renewal. With small team sizes, we foster strong relationships, teamwork, and long-term growth. For over a decade, the green team has set the standard for youth conservation programs nationwide. Beyond local projects, students gain hands-on experience in america's iconic national parks including yellowstone national park, gateway national recreation area, and lenape wildlife national refuge complex. In 2024, 45 youth were hired for paid positions. They built and installed three bioswales and four drainage systems in areas of great need, planted 65 trees, and dedicated 4,890 hours to improving parks, gardens, green infrastructure, and the physical environments of their communities and 210 hours to civic engagement and outreach.
$321,992 spent$19,456 earned by the program22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,480,852.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $2.4M (+42%).
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 32% · 2018 45% · 2019 31% · 2020 39% · 2021 31% · 2022 24% · 2023 27% · 2024 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of GROUNDWORK HUDSON VALLEY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% 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.
Chief executive
Oded Holzinger
Executive director
Board chair
Wendy Zimmermann
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $241k → $568k.
12 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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: $1.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Groundwork USA Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GROUNDWORK HUDSON VALLEY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GROUNDWORK HUDSON VALLEY 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
GROUNDWORK HUDSON VALLEY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
58% 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 HUDSON VALLEY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 33% · 2019 26% · 2020 32% · 2021 50% · 2022 41% · 2023 18% — 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
45% of GROUNDWORK HUDSON VALLEY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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 HUDSON VALLEY INC draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 HUDSON VALLEY INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding GROUNDWORK HUDSON VALLEY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.9M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$5.6M
- Department of Commerce$150k
- Environmental Protection Agency$130k
- Department of the Interior$37k
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 HUDSON VALLEY 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GROUNDWORK HUDSON VALLEY 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 HUDSON VALLEY INC?
- GROUNDWORK HUDSON VALLEY INC (New York) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,738,673 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($850,790). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROUNDWORK HUDSON VALLEY INC have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $3,738,673 in grants to GROUNDWORK HUDSON VALLEY INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROUNDWORK HUDSON VALLEY INC?
- The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $850,790 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROUNDWORK HUDSON VALLEY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing