Vermont · Nonprofit
GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION INC
GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION INC (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being THE BESSEMER NATIONAL GIFT FUND ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,097 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,097 housing & shelter nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Periwinkle Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- Vermont Public Health Association Inclocalportfolio match
- The Windham Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
0% of GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (53% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $20k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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: $102k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Groundworks Collaborative Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION 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
GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 50% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Periwinkle Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchVT · funds 14 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Vermont Public Health Association Inclocalportfolio matchVT · funds 7 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Windham Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchVT · funds 55 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas Thompson TrustlocalMA · funds 56 organizations near you
- High Meadows Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lintilhac Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wisdom Connection Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Groundwork USA Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rutland Hospital Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- J Warren and Lois McClure Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Preservation Trust of Vermont Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Groundworks Collaborative Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION INC?
- GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION INC (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being THE BESSEMER NATIONAL GIFT FUND ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $40,000 in grants to GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION INC?
- THE BESSEMER NATIONAL GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing