Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BROWNING THE GREEN SPACE INC
BROWNING THE GREEN SPACE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $857,750 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($350,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $858k
- Net assets
- $623k
What Browning the Green Space Inc does
Mission
We seek to facilitate a just energy transition by putting black and brown communities first, and enabling systems change at the intersection of social, environmental, and economic justice. We are powering a just energy transition in the northeast by creating jobs, building wealth, and reducing energy burden in black and brown communities. By removing barriers and expanding access, we seek to close the racial wealth gap while combating climate change.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Workforce development: our workforce development initiatives pave pathways to employment in clean energy for students of color through scholarships, curriculum development, and workforce development, as well as help clean energy employers embrace, incorporate, and achieve dei goals in their recruitment, hiring, and retention activities. Our programing in this area includes: I.prospects: browning the green space, in partnership with xodus group, designed and launched a multifaceted workforce program that includes targeted community engagement campaigns to deliver an overview of the offshore wind industry for high school and community college students in environmental justice communities, and demonstration of pathways to industry employment through internships and pre-apprenticeships. Through the program, we have reached 400+ high school students through events with employers and post-secondary institutions to expose students to career opportunities in clean energy. Ii. Student internship program success (sips) initiative: bgs has served as a training provider for the massachusetts clean energy center's sips initiative (formerly the targeted internship program) for the past 5 years.…
$223,781 spent$250,945 earned by the program32% of program spendingBusiness development: our business development initiatives enable entrepreneurs and founders working in climatetech, clean energy contractors of color, and investors of color working in clean energy gain access to resources including networks, contracts, capital, accelerators and incubators, and technical assistance. Our programing in this area includes: I.access (accelerating contractors of color in energy for sustainable success): bgs designed, developed and piloted a new 8-week boot camp for aspiring clean energy business owners. The goal of access is to build wealth within black and brown communities by creating new contracting businesses, who will in turn boost adoption of energy efficiency and renewable energy within those communities. Through weekly virtual classes and independent assignments, access participants learn business fundamentals including customer discovery, product-market-fit, and go-to- market strategy, as well as storytelling and presentation skills. The 2022 pilot program served 15 participants, including 9 new businesses and 6 aspiring business owners, across multiple trades: electrical, hvac, ironwork, energy efficiency, engineering, roofing, insulation.…
$347,657 spent$39,362 earned by the program49% of program spendingCommunity development: our community development initiatives increase the adoption of energy efficiency and renewable energy products and services in communities of color and/or low-income communities by not only increasing awareness but also by advocating to remove structural disincentives. Our programing in this area includes: I.mass save community first partnership: bgs is a participant in a community first partnership (cfp) program to increase participation in energy efficiency programs in massachusetts gateway cities and other underserved communities. Ii.doe communities leap: bgs is leading a doe communities leap (local energy action program) pilot in lawrence, ma that provides technical assistance to support community collaboration amongst national labs and other experts, government and non-governmental partners, community-based organizations, and investor-owned utilities, as well as environmental, economic development, and equity organizations. Iii.nrel american-made challenges jedi (justice, equity, diversity, inclusion) power connector: bgs provides services related to recruitment, outreach, and network growth, as well as competitor & programmatic jedi advising. In the…
$71,591 spent$2,100 earned by the program10% of program spendingMembership initiative: the bgs coalition is a cross-sector initiative designed to connect, support and educate organization leaders as they work to advance diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (deij) principles internally within their own organizations and collectively throughout the clean energy and climatetech sectors. Our members include clean energy and climate companies, non-profits, venture capital firms, and grassroots organizations that have made a pledged commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (deij) in support of a just energy transition for black and brown communities. Bgs launched its membership by invitation only in 2022 and reached 36 founding members, and opened membership to the public at the start of 2023.
$66,754 spent$36,375 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $709,783.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $404k to $705k (+74%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 42% · 2024 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of BROWNING THE GREEN SPACE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $236k → $285k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BROWNING THE GREEN SPACE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BROWNING THE GREEN SPACE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BROWNING THE GREEN SPACE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 53% · 2023 53% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
96% of BROWNING THE GREEN SPACE INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $296k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BROWNING THE GREEN SPACE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BROWNING THE GREEN SPACE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BROWNING THE GREEN SPACE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BROWNING THE GREEN SPACE INC?
- BROWNING THE GREEN SPACE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $857,750 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($350,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BROWNING THE GREEN SPACE INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $857,750 in grants to BROWNING THE GREEN SPACE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROWNING THE GREEN SPACE INC?
- BARR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROWNING THE GREEN SPACE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing