2026-08-20T07:45:20-07:00 2025-12-31 202571677 CORLISS & SOLOMON PLLC 242 CHARLOTTE ST SUITE 1 ASHEVILLE NC 28801 990 2025-01-01 271493841 Groundswell International Inc GROU 2029522322 1025 Thomas Jefferson St NW Washington DC 20007 Steve Brescia Executive Director 2029522322 2026-08-19 true Todd Oldenburg P02281691 8282360206 2026-08-20 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Steve Brescia 1025 Thomas Jefferson St NW Suite 4 Washington DC 20007 5122879 false X groundswellinternational.org X 2009 DC Groundswell International strenghtens communities to build healthy farming and food systems from the ground up. 13 13 6 13 0 0 5158034 5049668 0 62574 71022 4 2189 5220612 5122879 2853378 3135768 0 538690 637583 0 290026 901728 925397 4293796 4698748 926816 424131 3730442 4174290 26748 46465 3703694 4127825 Groundswell International strenghtens communities to build healthy farming and food systems from the ground up. false false 4169506 3135768 0 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 support 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. 4169506 true true false false false false false false false true false false false true false true true false false true true true false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 7 0 6 true false false false false false false false false false false false false X 13 13 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false X X X Goldin Group LLC 3039130008 4500 East-West Hwy Ste 710 Bethesda MD 20814 Steve Brescia Executive Director 50.00 X 171542 0 0 Rebecca Wolff Employee 40.00 X 112314 0 1674 Chandana Guntupalli Employee 40.00 X 100791 0 1750 David Conner Chair 2.00 X X 0 0 0 Bhadra Sheela Durgabakshi Vice Chair 2.00 X X 0 0 0 Andrea Bohn Treasurer 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Jessica Brown Secretary 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Cantave Jean Baptiste Board Member 0.50 X 0 0 0 Barbara Adolph Board Member 0.50 X 0 0 0 Saemi Ledermman Board Member 0.50 X 0 0 0 N'dunge Kiiti Board Member 0.50 X 0 0 0 Fatou Batta Board Member 0.50 X 0 0 0 Karen Ansara Board Member 0.50 X 0 0 0 Patricia Biermayr-Jenzano Board Member 0.50 X 0 0 0 Tim Lasalle Board Member 0.50 X 0 0 0 Gopal Kumar Nakarmi Board Member 0.50 X 0 0 0 384647 0 3424 3 false true false Goldin Group LLC 4500 East-West Hwy Ste 710 Bethesda MD 20814 CFO Services 156597 1 5049668 5049668 71022 0 71022 Miscellaneous Revenue 900009 2189 0 0 2189 2189 5122879 0 0 73211 3135768 3135768 171542 85771 27447 58324 392590 196295 62814 133481 26852 13426 4296 9130 46599 23299 7456 15844 1182 0 1182 0 171068 78299 92769 0 499 0 499 0 504944 437000 29543 38401 10357 3087 0 7270 12662 7698 1588 3376 44961 22730 7272 14959 117979 117979 0 0 15523 7761 2484 5278 Miscellaneous Expenses 7264 3631 1163 2470 Food and Lodging 34566 34566 0 0 Staff Development 4392 2196 703 1493 4698748 4169506 239216 290026 659231 408040 3027016 3535066 6544 193000 10540 9363 27111 28821 3730442 4174290 26748 46465 26748 46465 X 843652 1457856 2860042 2669969 3703694 4127825 3730442 4174290 424131 X false true X true false X 0 3194749 2578603 2752537 5158034 5049668 18733591 0 0 3194749 2578603 2752537 5158034 5049668 18733591 7092966 11640625 260 292 561 62574 71022 134709 0 2895 0 3537 4 2189 8625 18876925 30080 0.61670 0.60010 X 0 0 0 Pt II Ln 10 Other Income Part II, Line 10 Description: Other Income 2021: 2895. 2022: 0. 2023: 3537. 2024: 4. 2025: 2189. 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The organization believes that it has appropriate support for all tax positions taken, and as such, does not have any uncertain tax positions that are material to the financial statements. Pt V, Line 4 To build a fund that will eventually supplement operating support. true Central America 0 5 Regional Grants Agricultural 1659254 South America 0 2 Program Services Agricultural 81779 South America 0 3 Regional Grants Agricultural 273127 Sub-Saharan Africa 0 4 Program Services Agricultural 158928 Sub-Saharan Africa 0 11 Regional Grants Agricultural 1024071 South Asia 0 2 Program Services Agricultural 18785 South Asia 0 3 Regional Grants Agricultural 179316 0 30 0 30 3395260 3395260 Central America Haiti Program 1288987 Wire Central America Honduras Program 279552 Wire Central America Mexico Program 90715 Wire South America Ecuador Program 68215 Wire South America Guatemala Program 204912 Wire Sub-Saharan Africa Burkina Faso Program 427522 Wire Sub-Saharan Africa Ghana Program 290400 Wire Sub-Saharan Africa Mali Program 164349 Wire Sub-Saharan Africa Senegal Program 141800 Wire South Asia Nepal Program 142047 Wire South Asia India Partners 37269 Wire 11 false false false false false false Pt I Line 2 Procedures for monitoring the use of grant funds outside the U.S. Groundswell engages in extensive pre-grant due diligence of any organization to which it disburses money. For foreign organizations, Groundswell requires that the organization be a legally registered charitable non-profit organization within its country. The information required to be provided by potential grantees includes financials for the current and previous years, governing documents, details about the board of directors, and descriptions of programs and activities. These requirements are in addition to rather than in lieu of a project funding proposal. Once the decision is made to make a grant to a foreign organization, Groundswell requires a written cooperation agreement between the grantee and Groundswell, which outlines each organizations duties and responsibilities, including the grantees responsibility to request prior written approval from Groundswell before making substantial modifications to the project and/or budget. When the agreement is signed by the grantee, a transfer is made either from Groundswell headquarters or by direct transfer from the donor to a local bank account in the country where the grantee intends to implement activities outlined in its project proposal. During the grant period, Groundswell maintains regular and frequent contact with grantees, including through e-mail, phone and occasional field visits. Groundswell also requires regular progress and final narrative and financial reports. When reports are received, management and staff compare actual expenses to the approved budgeted expense, and, as necessary, seek additional explanation for any significant variations not already documented in the narrative report. Groundswell encourages all grantees to undertake annual audits of their overall operations, and Groundswell reserves the right to require an independent audit at its expense at any time during the project or program it is funding. This authority is set forth explicitly in the cooperation agreement entered into with each grantee. Finally, a Groundswell staff member conducts a site visit at least once during the term of all projects or programs undertaken with Groundswell funding. false false false false false false false false false Steve Brescia 171542 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 171542 0 0 0 Pt VI, Line 11b The 990 is prepared by independent accountants, reviewed by management, presented to the Board for review, proposed revisions and final approval. Pt VI, Line 12c Annually conflict of interest statements are required to be signed by each Board member. The statements affirm that the policy has been read & either that no conflict of interest exists or discloses any such conflict. Pt VI, Line 15a In the annual budgeting process, the Board approves a budget line for each salaried employee. Thereafter, individual salaries and salary increases for employees are determined by the Executive Director (the organizations title for the lead staff person). The Board of Directors sets the Executive Directors salary after a performance review & a check of comparable salary information for nonprofit organizations with similar budgets. Pt VI, Line 15b Groundswell International carries out a salary review with external assistance and salary comparisons. Pt VI, Line 18 Forms 990 are available on the IRS website, GuideStar Exchange website and Groundswells website. Form 1023 is available upon request. Pt VI, Line 19 The organizations financial statements & conflict of interest policy are available upon request. Its governing documents are available upon request. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Payroll Service Fees 3911. 1955. 626. 1330. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Program Contractors-Foreign 339217. 285429. 17212. 36576. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Human Resources 11705. 0. 11705. 0. 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