#802of 1,000 in 2025

Groundwork Jacksonville INC

Location
Jacksonville, Florida
Sector
Environment
Founded
2014
Website
groundworkjacksonville.org
255%Three-year growth, FY2022 to FY2025
$5.2MFY2025 revenue
15Employees, FY2025
#50of 66 in Environment
#45of 56 in Florida

Revenue by fiscal year

FY2022: $1,460,379 $1.5M FY22 FY2023: $1,735,730 $1.7M FY23 FY2024: $5,839,117 $5.8M FY24 FY2025: $5,187,999 $5.2M FY25

We count pledges when the cash is received, not when they’re promised, so these numbers differ from Groundwork Jacksonville INC’s 990. How we count pledges

Where revenue came from, FY2025

Government grants
$3.2M · 62%
Gifts and grants
$1.9M · 36%
Program revenue
$50K · 1%
Related organizations
$34K · 1%
Other
$43K · 1%
Total revenue on the 990
$5,032,268
Investment income
− $81,168
Pledge payments received this year, promised in an earlier year
+ $236,899
Revenue we count
$5,187,999

What it does

Our mission is to bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships to promote environmental, economic and social well-being in the jacksonville, florida area. The organization is a partnership between the city of jacksonville, us national park service, us environmental protection agency and groundwork usa, inc. And is one of 21 such trusts across the country. Groundwork jacksonville is specifically charged with designing and implementing a 30-mile bicycle/pedestrain trail and linear parks system, including the ecological restoration of mccoys and hogans creeks. The emerald trail will connect 14 urban neighborhoods, including downtown, and link to 16 schools, 2 colleges and 21 parks. This infrastructure investment is being made in majority black neighborhoods where 71% of residents are low-to-moderate income and 35% live in poverty.

Emerald trail: the 2nd trail segment is under construction. The city center link is a 1-mile trail that goes through the heart of downtown along hogan street from the st. Johns river and connects to the springfield neighborhood and hogans creek. The 100% design of segment 3, the riverside link, will be underway in the 2nd quarter of 2026. It connects riverside to the north riverside neighborhood and mccoys creek. It traverses by a number of cultural institutions and parks, including the cummer museum of art & gardens, the jacksonville garden club, the riverside arts market, memorial park, and riverside park. The trail alignments for the remaining segments - 4, 6, 7 & 8 - is complete and the segments are now ready to move to design.
Groundwork jacksonville secured 9m in federal grants to complete the design for the ecological restoration of hogans creek. The design is 90% complete and will be finalized by december 2026. The restoration will reduce flooding, improve water quality, create fish and wildlife habitat, and clean up contamination. It also will include 3 miles of the emerald trail.
Construction has begun on the mccoys creek branches project. The branches sit within a 30-acre city-owned park and are the creek's headwaters. Construction is expected to be complete by march 2028. Trail and recreation construction for phase 1 of mccoys creek from I-95 west to king st. Will begin in 2026. Section.

Leadership

Kay EhasCEO
Leana CianfoniDevelopment

EIN 47-2342111 · Full filings on ProPublica

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