Nonprofit · EIN 27-1493841
GROUNDSWELL INTERNATIONAL INC
Also known as GROUNDSWELL INTERNATIONAL
Tax-exempt · WASHINGTON, DC 20007
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2025 | 990 | $5,122,879 | $4,698,748 | $424,131 | $4,174,290 | $46,465 | $4,127,825 |
| December 31, 2024 | 990 | $5,220,612 | $4,293,796 | $926,816 | $3,730,442 | $26,748 | $3,703,694 |
| December 31, 2023 | 990 | $2,768,933 | $2,238,950 | $529,983 | $2,835,819 | $58,941 | $2,776,878 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $5,049,668
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $71,022
- Other revenue
- $2,189
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $3,135,768
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $171,542
- Other salaries and wages
- $392,590
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $637,583
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Legal fees
- $1,182
- Accounting fees
- $171,068
- Travel
- $117,979
- Program services (functional)
- $4,169,506
- Management and general (functional)
- $239,216
- Fundraising (functional)
- $290,026
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $3,730,442
- Total assets, end of year
- $4,174,290
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $46,465
- Net assets, end of year
- $4,127,825
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $1,457,856
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $2,669,969
- Gross receipts
- $5,122,879
- Employees
- 6
- Volunteers
- 13
- Year formed
- 2009
- State of legal domicile
- DC
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steve Brescia | Executive Director Officer | 50 | $171,542 | $0 |
| Rebecca Wolff | Employee Highest-paid employee | 40 | $112,314 | $1,674 |
| Chandana Guntupalli | Employee Highest-paid employee | 40 | $100,791 | $1,750 |
| David Conner | Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Bhadra Sheela Durgabakshi | Vice Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Andrea Bohn | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Jessica Brown | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Cantave Jean Baptiste | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Barbara Adolph | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Saemi Ledermman | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| N'dunge Kiiti | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Fatou Batta | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Karen Ansara | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Patricia Biermayr-Jenzano | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
| Tim Lasalle | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 | $0 |
1 more people on this return
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gopal Kumar Nakarmi | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2024: 15 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steve Brescia | Executive Director Officer | 50 | $166,756 |
| Jeannette Tramhel | Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| Jay Slaughter | Vice Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| Bhadra Sheela Durgabakshi | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| David Conner | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Cantave Jean Baptiste | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Andrea Bohn | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Jessica Bohn | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 |
| N'dunge Kiiti | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Afua Bruce | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Fatou Batta | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Karen Ansara | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Patricia Biermayr-Janzano | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Tim Lasalle | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Gopal Kumar Nakarmi | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2023: 14 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steve Brescia | Executive Director Officer | 50 | $160,859 |
| Jeannette Tramhel | Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| Jay Slaughter | Vice Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| Bhadra Sheela Durgabakshi | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Margaret Malloy | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Cantave Jean Baptiste | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 |
| David Conner | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Merrill Ewert | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Jan Middendorf | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Afua Bruce | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Fatou Batta | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Karen Ansara | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Patricia Biermayr-Janzano | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Tim Lasalle | Board Member Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 1025 THOMAS JEFFERSON ST NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20007-5201
- In care of
- % STEVE BRESCIA
- Principal officer (990 for 2025)
- Steve Brescia, 1025 Thomas Jefferson St NW Suite 4, Washington, DC 20007
- Signed the 990
- Steve Brescia, Executive Director
- Phone
- (202) 952-2322
- Website
- groundswellinternational.org
- Return prepared by
- CORLISS & SOLOMON PLLC
Mission
Groundswell International strenghtens communities to build healthy farming and food systems from the ground up.
Program accomplishments
- Groundswell International, Inc. (Groundswell) strengthens communities to build healthy farming and food systems from the ground up. Groundswells global network includes 16 non-governmental organizations supporting 865 community-based organizations groups organized into three Regional Programs for action-learning and amplification: Latin America and the Caribbean (Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico), South Asia (India, Nepal), and West Africa (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Senegal). In 2025, collectively, the Groundswell network supported 273,771 smallholder farmers to strengthen their production, resilience, and wellbeing. Our work improved the lives of 2,148,203 people from 1,320 marginalized communities by addressing the root causes of environmental degradation, food insecurity, poverty, climate vulnerability, and social marginalization. We supportExpenses $4,169,506 · grants $3,135,768
- a practical approach that builds participants capacities to experiment with ecological farming strategies, spread effective solutions, and develop complementary strategies to meet their basic needs and lead ongoing processes to improve human and social wellbeing and environmental regeneration. While programming in each region, as well as at the country level, is designed to respond to the local context, Groundswell programs everywhere: -Work with farmer leaders to test and adopt agroecological methods and spread them to more people through farmer-to-farmer training, allowing these farmers to produce more healthy food and restore hundreds of thousands of hectares of degraded land. -Empower women farmers to participate in savings and credit groups, improve ecological
- production, gain access to productive assets, and diversify their livelihoods, which in turn improves their families food security, incomes, and resilience. -Strengthen local markets and increase farmers incomes through savings and credit groups and community-based agricultural enterprises that add value to locally grown crops. -Nourish vulnerable families by explicitly integrating gender equity and nutrition into agricultural programs. Our holistic approach links agroecological farming to family nutrition. -Support citizens to engage with local decision-makers on enabling local policies and produce influential case studies, policy briefs, and impact reports based on learning across our network, to share with other stakeholders to expedite the necessary transition to agroecology. West Africa -- We continued to work with our partners Agrecol Afrique in Senegal; Association Nourrir Sans Detruire (ANSD) in Burkina Faso; the Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development (CIKOD) in Ghana; and Sahel Eco in Mali. In 2025, we added two new partners to our network both based in Northern Ghana, Urbanet and Center for Ecological Agriculture and Livehoods. Our West Africa program focuses on supporting dryland farming households to transition from conventional agriculture to agroecological and regenerative farming and food systems that allow them to mitigate and adapt to climate change; strengthen local management of biodiversity; and generate nature-based solutions to increase food security and incomes. In 2025, across these four Sahelian countries, Groundswell- supported programs that engaged 254,654 smallholder farmers through cascading, farmer-to-farmer training; contributed to regenerating 231,747 hectares of land; and programs benefitted 1,853,223 people. Latin America and the Caribbean - In 2025, we worked with partners EkoRural in Ecuador; Partenariat pour le Developpement Local (PDL) in Haiti; Qachuu Aloom and Asociacion Comunitaria Flor del Cafe aldea El Durazno in Guatemala; and Asociacion de Comites Ecologicos del Sur del Honduras (ACESH) and Vecinos Honduras. In these five countries, in 2025, we supported 17,233 smallholder farmers to improve their farming, create sustainable rural livelihoods, and strengthen their communities resilience. Groundswell programs with partners in the region benefitted 112,080 people (about the seating capacity of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum) and helped regenerate 5797 hectares of land.
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | December 31, 2025 | May 15, 2026 | 990 on file |
| 2024 | December 31, 2024 | May 15, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | December 31, 2023 | May 15, 2024 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 27-1493841
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 2010
- Accounting year ends
- December
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- International, foreign affairs and national security (Q33)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $4,174,290
- Income (IRS master file)
- $5,122,879
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | December 2025 | $5,122,879 | $4,698,748 | $4,174,290 | XML |
| 990 | December 2024 | $5,220,612 | $4,293,796 | $3,730,442 | XML |
| 990 | December 2023 | $2,768,933 | $2,238,950 | $2,835,819 | XML |
| 990 | December 2022 | $2,593,895 | $2,578,323 | $2,349,343 | IRS |
| 990 | December 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 27-1493841).
Questions about GROUNDSWELL INTERNATIONAL INC
- What is the EIN of GROUNDSWELL INTERNATIONAL INC?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of GROUNDSWELL INTERNATIONAL INC is 27-1493841.
- Is GROUNDSWELL INTERNATIONAL INC tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2010.
- Are donations to GROUNDSWELL INTERNATIONAL INC tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does GROUNDSWELL INTERNATIONAL INC file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of GROUNDSWELL INTERNATIONAL INC due?
- The return for tax year 2026 (the year ending December 31, 2026) is due May 17, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did GROUNDSWELL INTERNATIONAL INC last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2025.
- Who is the principal officer of GROUNDSWELL INTERNATIONAL INC?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 names Steve Brescia.
- Who are the officers and directors of GROUNDSWELL INTERNATIONAL INC?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 lists 16 people; 3 received compensation from the organization, the highest $171,542 (Steve Brescia, Executive Director).
- How much revenue does GROUNDSWELL INTERNATIONAL INC have?
- On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 it reported revenue of $5,122,879, expenses of $4,698,748 and total assets of $4,174,290 at year end.
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