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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by Groundswell Action Fund.

Totals

Total revenue
$2,407,141
Total expenses
$3,682,808
Contributions and grants received
$2,368,701
Grants paid
$2,625,000
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$38,440
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$4,309,989
Total liabilities, end of year
$563,508
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$3,746,481
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$3,065,504
Management and general expenses
$283,442
Fundraising expenses
$333,862
Program service expenses (Part III)
$3,065,504

Program services were 83.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $2,368,701

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $17,864

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $38,440 · excluded $38,440

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $0

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $2,625,000 · program services $2,625,000

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $212,158 · program services $43,662 · management and general $82,080 · fundraising $86,416

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $251,250 · program services $51,707 · management and general $97,204 · fundraising $102,339

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $14,084 · program services $2,936 · management and general $5,419 · fundraising $5,729

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $158,704 · program services $33,081 · management and general $61,061 · fundraising $64,562

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $34,415 · program services $7,174 · management and general $13,241 · fundraising $14,000

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $1,024 · program services $563 · fundraising $461

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $20,603 · program services $9,114 · management and general $11,489

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $72,405 · program services $54,934 · management and general $2,025 · fundraising $15,446

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $13,764 · program services $6,081 · fundraising $7,683

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $29,336 · program services $13,055 · fundraising $16,281

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $0

  • 17 · Travel

    total $16,398 · program services $6,303 · management and general $4,842 · fundraising $5,253

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $29,500 · program services $18,290 · fundraising $11,210

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $0

  • 24a · Other expenses: Technical assistance

    total $117,406 · program services $117,406

  • 24b · Other expenses: Program and other support

    total $78,455 · program services $74,365 · management and general $1,993 · fundraising $2,097

  • 24c · Other expenses: Other

    total $4,285 · program services $259 · management and general $3,718 · fundraising $308

  • 24d · Other expenses: Dues & subscriptions

    total $4,021 · program services $1,574 · management and general $370 · fundraising $2,077

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $3,624,523 · end of year $1,251,075

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $919,370 · end of year $2,957,810

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $1,065,102 · end of year $72,514

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    end of year $0

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $2,553 · end of year $28,590

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $69,500

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $69,500

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $29,500 · end of year $0

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    end of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    end of year $0

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $4,500

  • 18 · Grants payable

    beginning of year $110,000 · end of year $245,000

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $504,400 · end of year $318,508

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $3,413,815 · end of year $2,978,148

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,608,333 · end of year $768,333

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

Groundswell Action Fund provides an easy way for individual donors to resource the strongest 501(c)(4) grassroots organizing and base building efforts led by women of color, low-income women, transgender people and gender non-conforming people across the United States.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Groundswell Action Fund provides an easy way for individual donors to resource the strongest 501(c)(4) grassroots organizing and base building efforts led by women of color, low-income women, transgender people and gender non-conforming people across the United States to build political power through civic engagement.

  • Groundswell Action Fund makes grants and provides staff technical assistance to nonprofit organizations and movement leaders who are paving the road to liberation and harnessing a broader strategy of transformation and power building through civic engagement. While we, and our grantee partners, understand the importance of winning policy fights, the long-term prize is creating and sustaining a truly inclusive, participatory democracy with leaders who come from and reflect our communities and are rooted in progressive values of interconnectedness, structural inclusion, an economy for the common good, and liberation.

    Expenses $3,065,504 · Grants $2,625,000

  • Groundswell Action Fund participates actively in 10 donor networks, in an effort to educate funders about the reproductive justice movement and to raise the visibility of our grantees. Staff make presentations at dozens of meetings and events annually, and regularly host educational events for the philanthropic community, to uplift grantees and to create opportunities for them to build relationships with funders.

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Yamani Hernandez

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $349,145
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $294,407
    Other
    $54,738
    Hours/week
    2 + 38 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported + $294,407 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported + $10,722 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported + $44,016 related
    Filer's total
    not reported + $349,145 related

  • Chanda Jones

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $299,994
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $245,319
    Other
    $54,675
    Hours/week
    2 + 38 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported + $245,319 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported + $5,583 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported + $49,092 related
    Filer's total
    not reported + $299,994 related

  • Quanita Toffie

    Exec Director-Action Fund

    Total calculated
    $253,592
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $212,158
    Other
    $41,434
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported + $212,158 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported + $7,870 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported + $33,564 related
    Filer's total
    not reported + $253,592 related

  • Wen Brovold

    Dir Comms

    Total calculated
    $246,417
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $197,569
    Other
    $48,848
    Hours/week
    2 + 38 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported + $197,569 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported + $4,832 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported + $44,016 related
    Filer's total
    not reported + $246,417 related

  • Naa Hammond

    Chief Strategy Ofr

    Total calculated
    $241,067
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $176,651
    Other
    $64,416
    Hours/week
    0 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported + $176,651 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported + $7,188 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported + $57,228 related
    Filer's total
    not reported + $241,067 related

  • Angella Bellota

    Dir Funder Org

    Total calculated
    $228,786
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $193,250
    Other
    $35,536
    Hours/week
    2 + 38 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported + $193,250 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported + $5,896 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported + $29,640 related
    Filer's total
    not reported + $228,786 related

  • Bre Rivera

    Progm Director BTF

    Total calculated
    $202,285
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $162,232
    Other
    $40,053
    Hours/week
    0 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported + $162,232 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported + $6,489 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported + $33,564 related
    Filer's total
    not reported + $202,285 related

  • Lorena Gamboa-Martin

    Chief of Staff

    Total calculated
    $199,059
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $174,059
    Other
    $25,000
    Hours/week
    2 + 38 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported + $174,059 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported + $6,280 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported + $18,720 related
    Filer's total
    not reported + $199,059 related

  • Meenakshi Menon

    Former Interim ED

    Total calculated
    $86,933
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $86,683
    Other
    $250
    Hours/week
    2 + 38 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported + $86,683 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported + $250 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    not reported + $86,933 related

  • Kierra Johnson

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jessica Byrd

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dawn Boudwin

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chrissie Castro

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Daroneshia Duncan-Boyd

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment

Answered no

  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

  • Groundswell Fund

    501c3 · supporting reproductive justice · CA

    Directly controlled by Groundswell Fund

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
5 November 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202433109349303733

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