Virginia · Nonprofit
GROUNDWORK RVA INC
GROUNDWORK RVA INC (Virginia) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,123,792 to it, the largest being GROUNDWORK USA INC ($496,985). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $242k
What Groundwork Rva Inc does
Mission
Mission: to cultivate the next generation of urban conservationists in richmond, virginia. Vision: groundwork rva works with richmond youth to increase environmental, economic, and social well-being in neighborhoods by transforming blighted and neglected open spaces into vibrant public assets. Groundwork rva seeks four tangible results, which are deeply interrelated; success in one of these factors leverages success in the other three. 1. Youth are prepared for success. Groundwork rva helps youth prepare for educational and/or career success by designing, interpreting, building, and maintaining richmond's green network. Youth leave our programs with knowledge and job skills that will serve them. Some will successfully enter the green workforce, and over time, move into new or advanced roles. Some will go to college, and over time, may find work in conservation, environmental science, or a related field. 2. Racial equity. Groundwork rva promotes racial equity and social justice by culti
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Green team through hands-on, people-to-people community engagement, groundwork rva' green team is helping teens innovate important strategies to support resilience and health in the city of richmond. 2024 highlights included increased participation in our national park service immersion program. Groundwork rva was able to send two sets of 8 green team members to yellowstone national park, and grand tetons national park. An exciting addition was that one of the sisters, who had come back a summer leader, joined the gwrva team as a full-time green team educator. This ability to train and "hire from within" is making a huge difference in our community connections abilities. Green team service-learning work continued locally at shenadoah national park on two different trips. An additional highlight for 2023 was green team's continued work on urban agriculture and learning at the hillside mini farm. In addition to the farm producing thousands of pounds of food that was distributed to the community, a focus this year was on the dynamic communities aspect of the space. Green team assisted in the design and installation of a native plant bio-swale, as well as an accessible permeable…
$293,385 spent$114,327 earned by the program35% of program spendingGreen workforce in 2024, groundwork rva's green workforce was a full-year, workplace-based workforce training program. Green workforce provided over 6,000 hours of paid work to richmond young adults the youth continued building their skills and training in the safe use of tools and equipment, while learning valuable leadership, critical thinking and project planning and management skills. Green workforce teens designed and installed rain capture systems, and permeable pathways in community gardens and other facilities around the city, to help manage storm water run-off and improve the health of the james river. These young people - showed up every day, collaborated in designing the day's and week's tasks, drove to sites, loaded and unloaded the necessary tools and equipment, used those tools and equipment safely to build, install or maintain elements of the built environment and often managed the volunteers who came to help. Through the green workforce, groundwork rva helped prepare youth for careers in carpentry and building trades, landscaping and green infrastructure as well as created opportunities for teens to build skills in financial management. The green workforce's…
$426,942 spent51% of program spendingBellemeade community bike shop the bellemeade community bike shop is a program of groundwork rva that began in 2017 with the goal to bring more access to biking and biking resources, education, and opportunities to the black and brown youth of richmond's southside communities. What started out with the goal of mainly getting youth on bikes has grown into a multi-faceted program that offers youth opportunities to volunteer in their community to earn a bike, participate in bike trips and activities, and have access to free bike repairs, where they also get hands-on instruction on how to fix their own bike. In 2023 the bike shop continued and expanded it's camp spokes program, targeted specifically at young women and gender-nonconforming youth. Experience had shown that these youth really benefitted from this safe space to experience the world of bikes and biking without the competition and "pushiness" that young men can bring. This week-long camp was provided free and with one week serving high schoolers and the 2nd week serving middle-school aged young people. An exciting aspect of 2023's programming was the return of high school participants as stipended bike leaders for the…
$124,434 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $844,761.
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 $158k to $412k (+161%).
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 16% · 2018 20% · 2019 17% · 2020 26% · 2021 14% · 2022 19% · 2023 43% · 2024 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of GROUNDWORK RVA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $37k → $512k.
3 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 RVA INC’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 RVA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
52% 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 RVA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 47% · 2019 68% · 2020 39% · 2021 33% · 2022 22% · 2023 29% — 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 RVA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
58% of GROUNDWORK RVA INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $382k 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 RVA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding GROUNDWORK RVA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$710k
- Environmental Protection Agency$500k
- Department of the Interior$255k
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 RVA 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 RVA INC?
- GROUNDWORK RVA INC (Virginia) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,123,792 to it, the largest being GROUNDWORK USA INC ($496,985). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROUNDWORK RVA INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $2,123,792 in grants to GROUNDWORK RVA INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROUNDWORK RVA INC?
- GROUNDWORK USA INC is the largest funder on record, with $496,985 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROUNDWORK RVA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 25 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