North Carolina · Nonprofit
Green Built Alliance
Green Built Alliance (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,245,735 to it, the largest being The Kendeda Fund ($505,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $220k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $165k
What Green Built Alliance does
Mission
Green Built Alliance is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to advance sustainability in the built environment through community education, measurable standards, and regional action.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Green Built Homes Program: the organizations flagship home certification program certified 159 homes in 2025. Three innovation requests and one exception request were brought to the programs technical review committee to review the building science data and make determinations that supported the spirit of the certification program while also advancing the green building science.
$91,355 spentof which $20,050 as grants$32,510 earned by the program100% of program spendingContinuing Education Program: 137 builders and building professionals participated in the organizations continuing education program, which offered nine courses, including two new courses, approved by the state licensing board for qualifying continuing education.
Appalachian Offset Program: Raised more than $1,200 in donations in continued support of kW panel array on the United Way building in Asheville and will provided continued benefit in the years to come.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $91,355.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $632k to $336k (−47%).
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: 2018 37% · 2019 42% · 2020 23% · 2021 36% · 2022 41% · 2023 47% · 2024 53% · 2025 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of Green Built Alliance’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. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Daneil Clere
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $70k → $171k.
6 of 11 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 Green Built Alliance’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
Green Built Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% 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 Green Built Alliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 62% · 2021 67% · 2022 75% · 2023 88% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
60% of Green Built Alliance's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Green Built Alliance draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $432k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Green Built Alliance runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,606 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Green Built Alliance
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Green Built Alliance: 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 Green Built Alliance?
- Green Built Alliance (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,245,735 to it, the largest being The Kendeda Fund ($505,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Green Built Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,245,735 in grants to Green Built Alliance, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Green Built Alliance?
- The Kendeda Fund is the largest funder on record, with $505,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Green Built Alliance find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 11 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing