Vermont · Nonprofit
GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC
GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC (Vermont) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,413,816 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($637,675). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Groundworks Collaborative Inc does
Mission
Groundworks collaborative, inc. Provides emergency shelter, housing assistance & a food shelf for homeless persons.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Groundworks Collaborative was established in 2015 following the merger of the Brattleboro Area Drop In Center and Morningside Shelter. We provide ongoing support to families and individuals facing housing and food insecurities in the greater Brattleboro, Vermont area. We envision a community in which every person has their basic needs met, including a safe and dignified place to call home. Our programs include:Foodworks - Providing supplemental food to over 1000 individuals per month, Foodworks is open Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays for curbside pickup. Tuesdays are reserved for deliveries to those who are unable to pick up food during open hours.Groundworks Shelter - Our year-round, 30-bed shelter for families and individuals supports residents as they secure sustainable housing. Seasonal Overflow Shelter Open nightly from November through April, the SOS provides a warm place to sleep and a hot meal each night for those with nowhere else to go.Day Shelter The Day Shelter is typically open Monday through Friday from 7am5pm and Saturdays from 7amnoon, offering a safe place where our neighbors experiencing homelessness can come in out of the weather and access services such as…
$3,187,893 spent$28,390 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,187,893.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.8M to $4.4M (+54%).
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 37% · 2018 47% · 2019 34% · 2020 37% · 2021 29% · 2022 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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 8 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $88k → $410k.
16 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
66% 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 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 41% · 2019 40% · 2020 18% · 2021 21% · 2022 22% · 2023 19% — 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
54% of GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
61% of GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE 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. Of the $951k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Government funding GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.6M on record — $424k federal, $18.2M state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$388k
- Department of Agriculture$36k
- Homeless Assistance HOP$6.4M
- Grants$4.8M
- Other Grants$2.2M
- Emergency Solutions Grants$1.1M
- Emgcy Rental Housing Stability$1.0M
- Substance Abuse Recovery$922k
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 GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% 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 Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC?
- GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC (Vermont) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,413,816 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($637,675). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $2,413,816 in grants to GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $637,675 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 42 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