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GROUNDWORK SAN DIEGO - CHOLLAS CREEK

EIN 74-3184848 SAN DIEGO, CA

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Revenue 2024
$1,854,435
Expenses 2024
$1,898,276

Program services were 97.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C32
Classification
1000
Street
5106 FEDERAL BLVD STE 203

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 San Diego-Chollas Creek works at the intersection of social,environmental, and climate justice, grounded in strong university and communitypartnerships, to deliver education, green infrastructure, and climate safeneighborhoods. Groundworks mission is to bring about the regeneration, improvementand management of the environment through community-based partnerships which empowerpeople, businesses and organizations to promote economic and social well-being.Groundwork is committed to revitalizing the Chollas Creek Watershed and itscommunities.Groundwork San Diego has spent 18 years building trusted relationships in the Chollas Creek Watershed through environmental and climate justice initiatives led by and for the community. Our flagship EarthLab Climate Action Center, developed on previously vacant land at Millennial Tech Middle School, has educated thousands of students and families about environmental science and climate resilience. We maintain active partnerships with local

Activities or mission (Part I)

Groundwork San Diego - Chollas Creek works with three core program areas of climate education, climate safe neighborhoods, and green space green infrastructure in support of environmental, social, and economic justice throughout Chollas Creek Watershed.

  • Watershed InfrastructurePlanning, design, and construction of community-driven climate resilience projectscontinue to be a central component of Groundworks work in the Chollas Creek Watershed. One of only a select group of NGOs approved to deliver capital projects approved to improve City assets, Groundwork has generated over $11.2M in funding to restore and transform Chollas Creek and support its neighborhoods by advancing climate-resilient parks; active transportation bikeways; expanded tree canopies. These projects aim to reconnect communities through climate-resilient infrastructure and honor the Kumeyaay history in the watershed through cultural signage.EducationThe Groundwork EarthLab Educators deliver place-based learning experiences and projects during the school day, after school, and in the summer to over 1500 K-12 youth of the San Diego Unified School Districts Lincoln Cluster. The Experiential Early Learning Program provided students with outdoor STEAM education that increased understanding of ecological dynamics affecting their community. The Middle School project-based learnn program empowered students in grades 68 to tackle real-world, local climate action topics through interdisciplinary projects, such as reimagining their neighborhood as climate-resilient, implementing sustainable urban agriculture, and utilizing blue-green infrastructure to prevent flooding and increase access to green spaces. The Green Team Leadership Development Internship provide a year-long program focused on youth leadership, advocacy, and climate action. With the addition of a hydroponic farm at the EarthLab this year, our educators have added projects that inform students on the nexus between climate impacts and food production along with education about of the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables. Climate-safe NeighborhoodsThe Chollas Creek Watershed exemplifies compounded impacts of historic environmentalinjustice and redlining. Creek channelization and freeway construction has dividedneighborhoods, displacing hundreds of families and businesses, particularly BIPOCresidents who had rare opportunities for property ownership in Southeastern SanDiego. With the launch of the Chollas Blue Green Collaborative, composed of residents, landowners, planning agencies, regulators, developers, and industry leaders, a comprehensive Chollas Blue Green Vision for the watershed infrastructure was created. The Vision enshrines the Collaboratives recommended constellation of multi-benefit nature-based solutions/typologies that match the complexity of the watersheds climate challenges and opportunities to build resilience. The document guides and empowers the community and public decision-makers in capital project development to combat extreme weather events in the watershed.

    Expenses $1,858,740

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.

  • Leslie Reynolds

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $72,576
    From this org
    $72,576
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Ed Lopez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Charles Davis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Dr Hugh Bud Mehan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Jeff Martson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Melissa Corona

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Teri Hughes-Oelrich

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Vicki Estrada

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Elena Aguilar

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Glorya Escobar

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Nichol Soto

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • John Gohl

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Cheryl Pryatel

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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
    $1,854,435
    Expenses
    $1,898,276
    Contributions
    $1,818,463
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,854,435
    Expenses
    $1,898,276
    Contributions
    $1,818,463
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,578,323
    Expenses
    $1,349,383
    Contributions
    $1,545,684
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,432,695
    Expenses
    $1,404,062
    Contributions
    $1,389,325
    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
    $931,784
    Expenses
    $942,191
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,349,339

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,038,216
    Expenses
    $996,077
    Assets (EOY)
    $599,261

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $409,851
    Expenses
    $410,264
    Assets (EOY)
    $278,547

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $635,014
    Expenses
    $746,056
    Assets (EOY)
    $145,901

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,804,374
    Expenses
    $1,768,282
    Assets (EOY)
    $400,460

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,119,168
    Expenses
    $1,043,710
    Assets (EOY)
    $568,045

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $451,972
    Expenses
    $435,025
    Assets (EOY)
    $61,264

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $293,844
    Expenses
    $295,728
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,601

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $276,870
    Expenses
    $278,046
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,962

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $229,253
    Assets (EOY)
    $47,385

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.