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GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT INC

EIN 11-3427213 BROOKLYN, NY

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Revenue 2024
$1,612,664
Expenses 2024
$1,628,010

Program services were 64.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P80
Classification
1000
Street
540 PRESIDENT ST STE 1A

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

GROUNDSWELL IS NEW YORK CITY'S LEADING COMMUNITY PUBLIC ART ORGANIZATION, HAVE COMPLETED NEARLY 500 MURALS OVER THE COURSE OF A NEARLY 20-YEAR HISTORY. ANNUALLY,GROUNDSWELL ENGAGES NEARLY 800 UNDERSERVED, MARGINALIZED, ANDECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED YOUNG PEOPLE, PRIMARILY AGES 14-24, FROM NEWYORKS MOST DIVERSE COMMUNITIES, IN OUR PUBLIC ARTMAKING PROGRAMS TOCREATE 50+ ANNUAL PUBLIC ART PROJECTS THAT BEAUTIFY NEIGHBORHOODS,ENGAGE YOUTH IN SOCIETAL AND PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION, AND GIVEEXPRESSION TO IDEAS AND PERSPECTIVES THAT ARE UNDERREPRESENTED IN THEPUBLIC DIALOGUE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Groundswell's mission is to bring together youth, artists, and community partners to use public art as a tool for social change, for a more just and equitable world.

  • DURING FISCAL YEAR 2025, GROUNDSWELL WORKED WITH APPROXIMATELY 360YOUNG PEOPLE, 21 PROFESSIONAL TEACHING ARTISTS, AND MULTIPLE COMMUNITYPARTNERS TO PRODUCE 17 COLLABORATIVELY-DESIGNED MURALS AND ADDITIONALSOCIAL JUSTICE-RELATED ARTWORKS, IN NUMEROUS NEIGHBORHOODS IN BROOKLYN,QUEENS, AND MANHATTAN. IN FISCAL YEAR 202, GROUNDSWELL WORKED WITH 340YOUNG PEOPLE, 25 PROFESSIONAL TEACHING ARTISTS, AND MULTIPLE COMMUNITYPARTNERS TO COMPLETE 18 COLLABORATIVELY-DESIGNED ART PROJECTS, PLUSVARIOUS MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS, IN NUMEROUS NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS FOURBOROUGHS.GROUNDSWELLS STUDIO PROGRAMS (INTRODUCTION TO PORTFOLIO, ADVANCEDPORTFOLIO, MURALS FOR CHANGE, PRINT POWER, YOUTH CURATORIAL COMMITTEE,AND VOICES HERD) AND THE SUMMER LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE SERVED 81 YOUNGPEOPLE WITH GUIDANCE FROM 10 TEACHING ARTISTS, AND IN PARTNERSHIP WITHCOMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS (SUCH AS FIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE ANDRAICES). SEVERAL YOUTH PARTICIPANTS ENROLLED IN MULTIPLE SESSIONS OFGROUNDSWELL PROGRAMS OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR.GROUNDSWELL PARTNERED WITH 12 SCHOOLS FOR OUR SCHOOL-BASED PROGRAMMING,PROVIDING AFTERSCHOOL ARTS PROGRAMS FOR 176 STUDENTS, GUIDED BY 12TEACHING ARTISTS. SCHOOLS SELECTED FROM A CUSTOMIZED MENU OF PROGRAMOPTIONS FROM GROUNDSWELL, WITH SEVEN CHOOSING MURAL PROJECTS AND THEOTHER FIVE CHOOSING ARTS PROGRAMS SUCH AS PRINTMAKING, FEMINIST ART,AND MIXED-MEDIA PHOTOGRAPHY.AS PART OF AND IN ADDITION TO OUR PROGRAMMING DESCRIBED ABOVE,GROUNDSWELL PRESENTED PUBLIC EVENTS THAT SERVED APPROXIMATELY 600 PEOPLE. THESE INCLUDED EXHIBITIONS AND WORK-IN-PROGRESS SHARES LED BYGROUNDSWELL YOUTH, COMMUNITY PAINT DAYS, AND MURAL DEDICATION EVENTS.

    Expenses $1,055,819 · Revenue $269,350

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.

  • Yvonne Martinez Brathwaite

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $175,000
    From this org
    $175,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $175,000
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $175,000

  • Kerri Gawryn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $107,550
    From this org
    $105,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,550
    Hours/week
    40

  • Ann-Kerry Jean-Charles

    Director

    Total calculated
    $105,050
    From this org
    $95,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,050
    Hours/week
    40

  • Seendy Fouron

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Erik Schurink

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nikki Sullivan

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Joie Jager-Hyman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Richard C Madigan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kevin Maillard

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Zahirah McNatt

    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
    $1,612,664
    Expenses
    $1,628,010
    Contributions
    $1,347,832
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,373,897
    Expenses
    $1,651,399
    Contributions
    $1,066,820
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,625,646
    Expenses
    $1,977,901
    Contributions
    $1,347,973
    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
    $1,940,724
    Expenses
    $2,082,118
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,645,033

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,836,456
    Expenses
    $1,661,290
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,078,030

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,788,130
    Expenses
    $1,631,757
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,000,944

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,253,737
    Expenses
    $1,937,240
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,616,712

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,970,351
    Expenses
    $1,990,558
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,349,456

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,324,938
    Expenses
    $2,001,059
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,345,007

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,608,946
    Expenses
    $2,048,440
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,113,913

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,667,959
    Expenses
    $1,620,083
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,548,334

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.