Groundswell Capital
Tucson, AZ · EIN 86-1017490. Reported 28 grants totalling $303,903 to 28 organizations across tax years 2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Groundswell Capital, the IRS classifies it under housing & shelter rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE L20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 28 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,275 and $10,000; the smallest was $6,200 and the largest $30,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huub | Mesa, AZ | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Blax Friday | Tucson, AZ | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Growth Partners Arizona | Tucson, AZ | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Startup Tucson | Tucson, AZ | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Estradaornada Motors LLC | Tucson, AZ | $10,700 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mel Dominguez Art LLC | Tucson, AZ | $10,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Barrio Books | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Barrio Restoration | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| D & D Accounting Services | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dolce Pastello Cakes LLC | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Etano Center | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mr Nature's Music Garden LLC | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Originate Natural Building Materials | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Savage Mechanical Design | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Spark Business Solutions | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Templo Fitness LLC | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gabe's Spotless Cleaning Services Inc | Tucson, AZ | $9,900 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Freefall Aerospace | Tucson, AZ | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Leon's Handyman Services LLC | Tucson, AZ | $8,328 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tucson Big Frog | Tucson, AZ | $8,300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Movement Culture LLC | Tucson, AZ | $8,275 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Exo Roast Co | Tucson, AZ | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cafe Passe | Tucson, AZ | $6,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cormax Rigging Supply | Tucson, AZ | $6,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Di Luna Candles LLC | Tucson, AZ | $6,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| El Minuto Cafe | Tucson, AZ | $6,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mobility Plus | Tucson, AZ | $6,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rachel Marie Photography | Tucson, AZ | $6,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Huub
SMALL BUSINESS SUPPORT & EDUCATION - Estradaornada Motors LLC
OPERATING EXPENSES AND INVENTORY, FINANCIAL EDUCATION - Mel Dominguez Art LLC
INVENTORY AND OPERATING EXPENSES AND EQUIPMENT UNDER $10K, FINANCIAL EDUCATION - Barrio Books
FACILITY RENOVATION COSTS AND MATERIALS - Dolce Pastello Cakes LLC
EQUIPMENT PURCHASES UNDER $10K - Spark Business Solutions
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, EQUIPMENT, AND OPERATIONS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 2 of 28 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Arizona.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Groundswell Capital's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 2 returns (tax years 2022-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 600 S Meyer Unit 3, Tucson, AZ, 85701.
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