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GROUNDWORK CENTER FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES INC

EIN 38-2314954 TRAVERSE CITY, MI

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Revenue 2024
$3,325,181
Expenses 2024
$2,797,877

Program services were 74.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
414 E EIGHTH ST UNIT 204

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 Center for Resilient Communities partners to create enduring and equitable local solutions that preserve the environment, strengthen the economy, and create healthy, thriving communities that people cherish, protect, and nuture.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities partners to create enduring and equitable local solutions that preserve the environment, strengthen the economy, and create healthy, thriving communities that people cherish.

  • Food and Farming works to increase the production and availability of locally grown food, while simultaneously providing nutrition education and advocating for policies that enhance food access and community health.

    Expenses $1,110,797

  • Transportation and Community Design advocates to launch a passenger rail line from southeast to northwest lower Michigan and works to find innovative solutions for more walkable, liveable communities.

    Expenses $189,453

  • Climate and Clean Energy assists local governments, utilities and developers in clearing the way for local renewable energy infrastructure and remains engaged in activism for protecting the Great Lakes.

    Expenses $620,520

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.

  • Hans Voss

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $176,379
    From this org
    $176,379
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $176,379
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $176,379

  • Meghan McDermott

    ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $135,187
    From this org
    $135,187
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Elizabeth Palchak

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $22,540
    From this org
    $22,540
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Michael Lyman

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Cheryl Hutchinson

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Denis Pierce

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Julie Metty Bennett

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bill Millken Jr

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Joe Van Alstine

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jean Kerver

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Martha Lancaster

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lauren Teichner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Betsy Corbett

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Marcie Meditch

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dandan Zhu

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Joe Keedy

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,325,181
    Expenses
    $2,797,877
    Contributions
    $3,302,279
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,212,439
    Expenses
    $2,798,910
    Contributions
    $3,160,599
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,586,495
    Expenses
    $2,703,147
    Contributions
    $2,482,957
    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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,369,624
    Expenses
    $2,409,259
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,297,281

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,441,412
    Expenses
    $2,095,734
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,306,127

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,637,111
    Expenses
    $2,318,438
    Assets (EOY)
    $955,785

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,847,829
    Expenses
    $1,772,024
    Assets (EOY)
    $770,787

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,993,802
    Expenses
    $2,021,410
    Assets (EOY)
    $434,705

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,867,407
    Expenses
    $1,826,907
    Assets (EOY)
    $568,735

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,467,146
    Expenses
    $1,478,629
    Assets (EOY)
    $300,238

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,265,178
    Expenses
    $1,231,276
    Assets (EOY)
    $353,249

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,385,287
    Expenses
    $1,338,601
    Assets (EOY)
    $223,170

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,698,342
    Assets (EOY)
    $397,819

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.