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GROUNDWORK JACKSONVILLE INC
GROUNDWORK JACKSONVILLE INC (Florida) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,158,272 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($2,817,744). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $9.2M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Groundwork Jacksonville Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships to promote environmental, economic and social well-being in the jacksonville, florida area. The organization is a partnership between the city of jacksonville, us national park service, us environmental protection agency and groundwork usa, inc. And is one of 21 such trusts across the country. Groundwork jacksonville is specifically charged with designing and implementing a 30-mile bicycle/pedestrain trail and linear parks system, including the ecological restoration of mccoys and hogans creeks. The emerald trail will connect 14 urban neighborhoods, including downtown, and link to 16 schools, 2 colleges and 21 parks. This infrastructure investment is being made in majority black neighborhoods where 71% of residents are low-to-moderate income and 35% live in poverty.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Emerald trail: the 2nd trail segment is under construction. The city center link is a 1-mile trail that goes through the heart of downtown along hogan street from the st. Johns river and connects to the springfield neighborhood and hogans creek. The 100% design of segment 3, the riverside link, will be underway in the 2nd quarter of 2026. It connects riverside to the north riverside neighborhood and mccoys creek. It traverses by a number of cultural institutions and parks, including the cummer museum of art & gardens, the jacksonville garden club, the riverside arts market, memorial park, and riverside park. The trail alignments for the remaining segments - 4, 6, 7 & 8 - is complete and the segments are now ready to move to design.
$406,539 spent9% of program spendingGroundwork jacksonville secured 9m in federal grants to complete the design for the ecological restoration of hogans creek. The design is 90% complete and will be finalized by december 2026. The restoration will reduce flooding, improve water quality, create fish and wildlife habitat, and clean up contamination. It also will include 3 miles of the emerald trail.
$25,332 spent1% of program spendingConstruction has begun on the mccoys creek branches project. The branches sit within a 30-acre city-owned park and are the creek's headwaters. Construction is expected to be complete by march 2028. Trail and recreation construction for phase 1 of mccoys creek from I-95 west to king st. Will begin in 2026. Section.
$4,199,118 spent91% of program spending46 homes have been repaired in the north riverside neighborhood in partnership with groundwork jacksonville and the north riverside community development corporation. Groundwork jacksonville completed watershed plans for the mccoys and hogans creek watersheds. Extensive community engagement was done, including forming a watershed stakeholder group with representatives from the 10 neighborhoods within the watersheds.
$2,861 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,633,850.
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.
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 $2.2M to $3.4M (+56%).
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 21% · 2019 34% · 2020 7% · 2021 22% · 2022 31% · 2023 12% · 2024 53% · 2025 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of GROUNDWORK JACKSONVILLE 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. 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
Kay Ehas
CEO
Board chair
Deborah Amartin Johnson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $77k → $2.8M.
6 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 JACKSONVILLE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 JACKSONVILLE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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 JACKSONVILLE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 28% · 2019 27% · 2020 30% · 2021 43% · 2022 30% · 2023 36% — 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
56% of GROUNDWORK JACKSONVILLE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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 JACKSONVILLE INC draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M 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 JACKSONVILLE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GROUNDWORK JACKSONVILLE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.3M on record — $6.1M federal, $212k state.
- Department of Commerce$6.1M
- FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $212k
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 JACKSONVILLE 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 Florida
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GROUNDWORK JACKSONVILLE INC?
- GROUNDWORK JACKSONVILLE INC (Florida) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,158,272 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($2,817,744). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROUNDWORK JACKSONVILLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $9,158,272 in grants to GROUNDWORK JACKSONVILLE INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROUNDWORK JACKSONVILLE INC?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,817,744 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROUNDWORK JACKSONVILLE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 38 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