GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C300

Classification

1200

Street

211 S PATERSON ST STE 250

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Mission and programs · 2023

• CONSERVATION, OUTREACH AND EDUCATION: FOUNDED IN 1983, GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY CONTINUES TO HELP LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND LANDOWNERS PROTECT SPECIAL PLACES FOREVER IN SOUTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN.GROUNDSWELL PURCHASED 20 ACRES OF WETLAND IN SOUTHERN COLUMBIA COUNTY. THIS PROPERTY ADDS LAND TO THE ANDERSON WATERFOWL PRODUCTION AREA AND PROVIDES HABITAT FOR DUCKS, GEESE, AND OTHER WILDLIFE. IT'S OPEN FOR ACTIVITIES LIKE HUNTING AND FISHING. VISITORS CAN ALSO ENJOY HIKING, CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING, AND WILDLIFE OBSERVATION. GROUNDSWELL PLANS TO DONATE THE PROPERTY TO THE US FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE FOR LONG-TERM MANAGEMENT. FUNDING FOR THIS PURCHASE CAME FROM THE KNOWLES-NELSON STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM, THE NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS CONSERVATION ACT, AND OUR GENEROUS GROUNDSWELL SUPPORTERS. WE ALSO THANK DUCKS UNLIMITED FOR THEIR HELP IN SECURING THE FEDERAL FUNDS FOR THIS ACQUISITION. GROUNDSWELL HOLDS AND MONITORS MORE THAN 80 CONSERVATION EASEMENTS EVERY YEAR TO ENSURE THEIR CONSERVATION VALUES ARE UPHELD.GROUNDSWELL SUPPORTERS AND THE PUBLIC ENJOYED NATURE EXPERIENCES, INCLUDING A BIRDING FOR FAMILIES OUTING WITH THE BIPOC BIRDING CLUB, A HIKE AT HAUGE HISTORIC DISTRICT PARK, A BONFIRE AND CANDLELIT HIKE AT PATRICK MARSH, A TOUR OF FOUR OAKS FARM, WATERFOWL VIEWING AT CHEROKEE MARSH, AND OUR ANNUAL BLACK HAWK RIDGE TRAIL RUN. WE ALSO HOSTED A 40TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY FOR OUR FOUNDERS PLUS CURRENT AND PAST BOARD MEMBERS, WHOSE INSPIRING LEADERSHIP MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN LOCAL LAND PROTECTION THESE PAST 40 YEARS!AT WESTPORT PRAIRIE, OUR DEDICATED VOLUNTEERS AND WAUNAKEE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ADDED ANOTHER 6.5 ACRES OF PRAIRIE HABITAT. THE SEED HAD BEEN COLLECTED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AT WESTPORT PRAIRIE BY VOLUNTEERS AND OUR CONTRACTED SEED COLLECTOR, KAYLEE NELSEN. WE ALSO BOUGHT A BRAND-NEW TRACTOR AND MOWER IN THE SUMMER OF 2023 TO HELP US MANAGE OUR EVER-GROWING PRAIRIE. WE'RE GRATEFUL TO THE JUST OVER TWO DOZEN GROUNDSWELL SUPPORTERS WHO MADE THESE PURCHASES POSSIBLE. AT PATRICK MARSH AND WESTPORT PRAIRIE WE OFFERED MONTHLY OUTDOOR VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES TO HELP RESTORE AND CARE FOR OUR LOCAL NATURAL LANDSCAPES. VOLUNTEERS CUT BRUSH, COLLECTED PRAIRIE SEEDS, PULLED INVASIVE WEEDS, BURNED BRUSH, AND MORE.OUR 2023 SUMMER ECOLOGY INTERN PROGRAM, CALLED THE PRAIRIE PARTNERS, IMPROVED WILDLIFE HABITAT AT BOTH WESTPORT PRAIRIE AND PATRICK MARSH, GAINING VALUABLE WORK EXPERIENCE ABOUT MANAGING NATURAL AREAS.GROUNDSWELL OWNS TWO COMMUNITY FARMS THAT PROMOTE EQUITABLE ACCESS TO LAND FOR NEXT-GENERATION FARMERS: WESTPORT FARM IN WAUNAKEE AND PASLEY'S SWAN CREEK FARM IN FITCHBURG. AT WESTPORT FARM IS OUR LIFTING HEARTS THERAPY GARDEN, A PROGRAM IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN HEALING CENTER. HMOOB (HMONG) ELDERS FIND SOLACE GARDENING HERE. IMPROVEMENTS TO THE GARDEN (RAISED BEDS) AND THE FARM ARE THANKS TO MANY GROUNDSWELL SUPPORTERS. AT PASLEY'S SWAN CREEK FARM WE INSTALLED A WELL, TO PROVIDE NON-CHLORINATED WATER, WHICH IS PREFERRED FOR FARMING. WE LEASE THE FARMLAND TO NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD SOLUTIONS, A LOCAL NONPROFIT LED BY ROBERT PIERCE.GROUNDSWELL CONTINUED TO PROVIDE OUTREACH AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO HMOOB (HMONG) FARMERS TO CONNECT THEM WITH USDA PROGRAMS AND OTHER RESOURCES. THIS WORK IS POSSIBLE THANKS TO THE OUTREACH AND ASSISTANCE FOR SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED FARMERS AND RANCHERS AND VETERAN FARMERS AND RANCHERS (2501) PROGRAM GRANT, FUNDED BY THE USDA OFFICE OF PARTNERSHIPS AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT. THE IS A 3-YEAR GRANT RUNNING THROUGH THE FALL OF 2025. THIS GRANT IS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH UW-MADISON DIVISION OF EXTENSION AND FAIRSHARE CSA COALITION.GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1983 AND HAS PERMANENTLY PROTECTED NEARLY 14,000 ACRES OF IMPORTANT LAND AND WATER IN SOUTH-CENTRAL WI. GROUNDSWELL IS ACCREDITED BY THE LAND TRUST ACCREDITATION COMMISSION.

  Expenses $867,892 · Grants $136,181 · Revenue $17,443

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,407,121

  Expenses

  $1,216,416

  Contributions

  $1,330,948

  Grants paid

  $136,181

• 2022

  Revenue

  $2,689,100

  Expenses

  $2,422,567

  Contributions

  $2,668,347

  Grants paid

  $1,043,675

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,200,738

  Expenses

  $1,667,683

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,038,713

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,084,404

  Expenses

  $944,572

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,070,920

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,702,810

  Expenses

  $1,069,053

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,670,399

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,405,749

  Expenses

  $2,681,590

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,982,947

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $734,149

  Expenses

  $444,027

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,200,084

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $757,101

  Expenses

  $703,347

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,897,612

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,320,881

  Expenses

  $1,397,689

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,869,645

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,851,583

  Expenses

  $1,986,171

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,961,421

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $6,594,806

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,845,344

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $531,798

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,862,979

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• TOWN OF WESTPORT

  $1,000,000

  2022 · LAND PURCHASE

• UW-EXTENSION

  $85,515

  2023 · USDA PASS-THRU GRANT

• OPERATION FRESH START

  $30,000

  2023 · PASS THRU GRANT MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

• UW-EXTENSION

  $20,831

  2022 · OUTREACH AND ASSISTANCE FOR SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED FARMERS AND RANCHERS AND VETERAN FARMERS AND RANCHERS

• FAIRSHARE CSA COALITION INC

  $17,546

  2023 · USDA PASS-THRU GRANT

• BLACK AND BROWN WOMYN POWER COALITION INC

  $12,164

  2022 · OUTREACH AND ASSISTANCE FOR SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED FARMERS AND RANCHERS AND VETERAN FARMERS AND RANCHERS

• FAIRSHARE CSA COALITION INC

  $10,680

  2022 · OUTREACH AND ASSISTANCE FOR SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED FARMERS AND RANCHERS AND VETERAN FARMERS AND RANCHERS

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $169,523

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $44,500

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $37,500

  2022 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $30,775

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $30,675

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $26,400

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST

  $25,969

  2024 · PROMOTING SOUND FARMING PRACTICES/KEEPING FARMERS ON THE LAND

• AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST

  $25,000

  2023 · PROMOTING SOUND FARMING PRACTICES/KEEPING FARMERS ON THE LAND

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $25,000

  2022 · Environment

• MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $20,699

  2024 · GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES

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

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