Louisiana · Nonprofit
GROUNDWORK NEW ORLEANS
GROUNDWORK NEW ORLEANS (Louisiana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,826,045 to it, the largest being GROUNDWORK USA INC ($846,235). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $-3621
What Groundwork New Orleans does
Mission
Groundwork New Orleans engages local residents, businesses and government officials to revitalize neighborhoods and transform community liabilities into community assets. By changing places we change lives. Since 2006, gwnola has focused on neighborhood-based best management practices, or "bmps", implementing projects that mitigate storm water threats while improving quality of life, restoring ecosystems, and contributing to a healthier watershed that includes surrounding wetlands and the gulf of mexico estuaries. At the core of our programing is youth development through job and life skills training. The green team program employs youth ages 14-18, the ground crew program employs young adults 19-25, improvement and community development projects which focus on improving the quality of life in new orleans.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Epa gmd tfw - gwnola was awarded a epa grant to remove trash from waterways in texas, louisiana and alabama- 97k lbs of trash removed.
$186,014 spent28% of program spendingCplr - climate preparedness land restoration program to build a community management park.
$110,576 spent17% of program spendingCsn - gwnola established a neighborhood environmental coalition in the 7th ward of new orleans.
$105,690 spent16% of program spendingOther programs include epa gmd nutrient removal, healthy community services and other programming
$250,688 spent$1,058 earned by the program38% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $652,968.
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 $100k to $151k (+51%).
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 47% · 2018 84% · 2023 46% · 2024 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of GROUNDWORK NEW ORLEANS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Todd Reynolds
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $145k → $372k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 NEW ORLEANS’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 NEW ORLEANS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 NEW ORLEANS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 42% · 2019 65% · 2020 44% · 2021 46% · 2022 69% · 2023 52% — growing more concentrated.
“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
80% of GROUNDWORK NEW ORLEANS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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 NEW ORLEANS draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $296k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 NEW ORLEANS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding GROUNDWORK NEW ORLEANS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.4M on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$2.4M
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 NEW ORLEANS
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 GROUNDWORK NEW ORLEANS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GROUNDWORK NEW ORLEANS?
- GROUNDWORK NEW ORLEANS (Louisiana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,826,045 to it, the largest being GROUNDWORK USA INC ($846,235). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROUNDWORK NEW ORLEANS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,826,045 in grants to GROUNDWORK NEW ORLEANS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROUNDWORK NEW ORLEANS?
- GROUNDWORK USA INC is the largest funder on record, with $846,235 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROUNDWORK NEW ORLEANS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 9 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