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GROUNDWORK ELIZABETH INC

EIN 56-2397106 ELIZABETH, NJ

Revenue 2024
$1,000,788
Expenses 2024
$921,669

Program services were 96.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
N32
Classification
1000
Street
C/O EDC 205 FIRST STREET

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

To work within the Elizabeth, N.J. and adjacent Union County communities to improve the quality of the physical environment and lives of those in our diverse neighborhoods, as we build healthy, sustainable and more equitable places for all.

  • Projects and Programs: Come Grow With Us Urban Agriculture program, Urban Farming, MicroFarm, Green Careers, Green Infrastructure, Youth programming, Urban Waters and Elizabeth River Trail, local park conservation and restoration.

    Expenses $890,235

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • John Evangelista

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $76,704
    From this org
    $76,704
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Gregory J Waga RA AIA

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John Gallina

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ken Richuso

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Doug Harris

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Maria Carvalho

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marcy Metz

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Fatimah Raymond

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Strochak

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marty Borruso

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Phyllis Reich

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Darren Bryden

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ana Domiciano

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $1,000,788
    Expenses
    $921,669
    Contributions
    $754,465
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,395,078
    Expenses
    $927,330
    Contributions
    $1,186,739
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $691,311
    Expenses
    $693,625
    Contributions
    $557,285
    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
    $590,200
    Expenses
    $435,791
    Assets (EOY)
    $406,096

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $556,528
    Expenses
    $461,238
    Assets (EOY)
    $307,102

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $476,467
    Expenses
    $518,447
    Assets (EOY)
    $133,971

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $565,361
    Expenses
    $561,545
    Assets (EOY)
    $142,065

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $453,815
    Expenses
    $657,786
    Assets (EOY)
    $205,843

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $710,512
    Expenses
    $377,512
    Assets (EOY)
    $395,108

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.

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