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GROUNDWORK NEW ORLEANS

EIN 90-0456300 NEW ORLEANS, LA

Revenue 2024
$1,340,566
Expenses 2024
$1,286,239

Program services were 95.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C99
Classification
1000
Street
2372 SAINT CLAUDE AVE STE 300

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

GROUNDWORK NEW ORLEANS ENGAGES LOCAL RESIDENTS, BUSINESSES AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO REVITALIZE NEIGHBORHOODS AND TRANSFORM COMMUNITY LIABILITIES INTO COMMUNITY ASSETS. BY CHANGING PLACES WE CHANGE LIVES. SINCE 2006, GWNOLA HAS FOCUSED ON NEIGHBORHOOD-BASED BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES, OR "BMPS", IMPLEMENTING PROJECTS THAT MITIGATE STORM WATER THREATS WHILE IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE, RESTORING ECOSYSTEMS, AND CONTRIBUTING TO A HEALTHIER WATERSHED THAT INCLUDES SURROUNDING WETLANDS AND THE GULF OF MEXICO ESTUARIES. AT THE CORE OF OUR PROGRAMING IS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT THROUGH JOB AND LIFE SKILLS TRAINING. THE GREEN TEAM PROGRAM EMPLOYS YOUTH AGES 14-18, THE GROUND CREW PROGRAM EMPLOYS YOUNG ADULTS 19-25, IMPROVEMENT AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS WHICH FOCUS ON IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN NEW ORLEANS.

  • EPA GMD TFW - GWNOLA WAS AWARDED A EPA GRANT TO REMOVE TRASH FROM WATERWAYS IN TEXAS, LOUISIANA AND ALABAMA- 97K LBS OF TRASH REMOVED. RIBBON-CUTTING ON THE NEW VISION 2 REALITY STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PARK - 400K.

    Expenses $489,954 · Grants $232,161

  • CPLR - CLIMATE PREPAREDNESS LAND RESTORATION PROGRAM TO BUILD A COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT PARK. EXPANDED TREE PLANTING TO 500 TREES IN 2024 AND YOUTH PROGRAMMING TO 45 NEW POSITIONS.

    Expenses $241,742

  • CSN - GWNOLA ESTABLISHED A NEIGHBORHOOD ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION IN THE 7TH WARD OF NEW ORLEANS. FIRST OPERATIONAL "BEEHIVE" MICROGRID RESILIENCE HUB IN THE COUNTRY 425K.

    Expenses $43,836

  • SOLAR MICROGRID COMMUNITY HUB (EPA EJPS) - GROUNDWORK NEW ORLEANS AND ITS PARTNERS SEEKS TO PREVENT SUCH TRAGIC DEATHS FROM HAPPENING IN THE FUTURE. NEW ORLEANS RANKS AMONG THE TOP 10 CITIES IN THE U.S. FOR POWER OUTAGES FROM SEVERE WEATHER, WHICH HAVE DOUBLED NATIONWIDE OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS, AND THE FREQUENCY AND LENGTH OF POWER FAILURES ARE AT THEIR HIGHEST LEVELS SINCE RELIABILITY TRACKING BEGAN. FOLLOWING HURRICANE IDA, NEARLY ONE MILLION NEW ORLEANIANS LOST POWER; SOME RESIDENTS REMAINED IN THE DARK MORE THAN ONE MONTH LATER. WHEN POWER OUTAGES OCCUR, GROUNDWORK NEW ORLEANS WILL BE ABLE TO CONDUCT NEEDS ASSESSMENTS AND PROVIDE FOR THOSE NEEDS BY OFFERING CHARGING STATIONS AND SMALL BATTERY DISTRIBUTION, FOOD PREPARATION AND DISTRIBUTION, COOLING/HEATING STATIONS, AND WIFI ACCESS. TOTAL EPA EJPS ($116,878) WITH ALL OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES IS $451,496.

    Expenses $451,496 · Revenue $4,602

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Jared Sessum

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Colleen McHugh

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ella Delio

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sonji White

    DIRECTOR (JOINED 01/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mindy Joiner

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jenny Snape

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Yarrow Etheredge

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ramiro Diaz

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Todd Reynolds

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $102,400
    From this org
    $100,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,400
    Hours/week
    40

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,340,566
    Expenses
    $1,286,239
    Contributions
    $1,335,964
    Grants paid
    $232,161
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $744,362
    Expenses
    $720,538
    Contributions
    $743,304
    Grants paid
    $0

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

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $131,012
    Expenses
    $170,120
    Assets (EOY)
    $44,074

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $223,724
    Expenses
    $143,805
    Assets (EOY)
    $83,181

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $157,947
    Expenses
    $159,002
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,259

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $130,002
    Expenses
    $155,875
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,414

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2019

Tax period
1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019
Principal officer
Todd D Reynolds
Mailing address
2372 SAINT CLAUDE AVE STE 300NEW ORLEANS LA 701178394

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

  • OSPREY INITIATIVE

    $138,852

    2024 EPA NUTRIENT REMOVAL GRANT

  • WATER IS ALIVE

    $75,913

    2024 EPA NUTRIENT REMOVAL GRANT

  • CENTER FOR WATERSHED PROTECTION

    $17,396

    2024 EPA NUTRIENT REMOVAL GRANT

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2023, reinstated 15 May 2023.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.