Massachusetts · Nonprofit
GROUNDWORK SOMERVILLE INC
GROUNDWORK SOMERVILLE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $979,750 to it, the largest being GROUNDWORK USA INC ($368,137). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $608k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $980k
- Net assets
- $267k
What Groundwork Somerville Inc does
Mission
Groundwork somerville promotes walking and biking, sensible transit development, clean waterways, and have become a regional resource for other communities pursuing sustainable development
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Groundwork somerville promotes walking and biking, sensible transit development, clean waterways, and have become a regional resource for other communities pursuing sustainable development. The program food and farms is ambitious urban agriculture initiative and it is to increase green and growing space in the densest city in new england while addressing issues of health and race inequity and their intersection with food access and environment justice
Groundwork somerville promotes walking and biking, sensible transit development, clean waterways, and have become a regional resource for other communities pursuing sustainable development the program food and farms is ambitious urban agriculture initiative and it is to increase green and growing space in the densest city in new england while addressing issues of health and race inequity and their intersection with food access and environment justice
$530,580 spent$612,569 earned by the program100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $530,580.
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 2022 to 2023, from $157k to $284k (+81%).
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 57% · 2020 31% · 2021 42% · 2022 20% · 2023 40% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of GROUNDWORK SOMERVILLE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $143k → $150k.
4 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 SOMERVILLE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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 SOMERVILLE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 SOMERVILLE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 28% · 2019 39% · 2020 63% · 2021 38% · 2022 36% · 2023 57% — 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
38% of GROUNDWORK SOMERVILLE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
51% of GROUNDWORK SOMERVILLE INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $103k 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 SOMERVILLE INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding GROUNDWORK SOMERVILLE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $396k on record — $31k federal, $365k state.
- Department of Agriculture$31k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$365k
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 SOMERVILLE 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 Massachusetts
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Groundwork USA · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GROUNDWORK SOMERVILLE 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 SOMERVILLE INC?
- GROUNDWORK SOMERVILLE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $979,750 to it, the largest being GROUNDWORK USA INC ($368,137). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROUNDWORK SOMERVILLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $979,750 in grants to GROUNDWORK SOMERVILLE INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROUNDWORK SOMERVILLE INC?
- GROUNDWORK USA INC is the largest funder on record, with $368,137 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROUNDWORK SOMERVILLE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 31 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