New York · Nonprofit
GREEN CITY FORCE INC
GREEN CITY FORCE INC (New York) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,999,195 to it, the largest being The Corps Network ($4,743,749). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Green City Force Inc does
Mission
Train young leaders to power a green and inclusive economy, through serrvice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Service: green city force (gcf) connects the dots between youth employment and the need to shift to sustainability and equity in our cities, through service rooted in public housing communities in new york city.
$3,505,713 spent$727,173 earned by the program69% of program spendingCareer services: gcf is committed to supporting alumni of its service corps as they transition into full-time work or school following service. This includes aims to position frontline community members as competitive and qualified candidates for emerging employment opportunities via pre-apprenticeships and on the job training, as well as advanced training and career paths over time. Career tracks include construction, solar, electrification, weatherization, urban
$705,943 spent14% of program spendingSocial enterprise: alongside ongoing support for alumni, gcf designs and operates sectoral training and employment initiatives via our social enterprise where we secure fee-for-service contracts and hire back our graduates as employees while building their professional skills and generating unrestricted funding for the organization.
$833,702 spent16% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$47,797 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,093,155.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $3.2M to $5.0M (+59%).
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: 2017 38% · 2018 23% · 2019 34% · 2020 21% · 2021 49% · 2022 22% · 2023 40% · 2024 40% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of GREEN CITY FORCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Tonya Gayle
Executive director
Board chair
Steven Berkenfeld
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $588k → $2.2M.
13 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 CITY FORCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 funders by total. 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 CITY FORCE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
46% 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 CITY FORCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 63% · 2019 61% · 2020 32% · 2021 38% · 2022 24% · 2023 24% — 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
50% of GREEN CITY FORCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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 CITY FORCE INC draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $893k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 CITY FORCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GREEN CITY FORCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $750k on record.
- Department of Labor$750k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GREEN CITY FORCE 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREEN CITY FORCE 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 GREEN CITY FORCE INC?
- GREEN CITY FORCE INC (New York) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,999,195 to it, the largest being The Corps Network ($4,743,749). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREEN CITY FORCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $12,999,195 in grants to GREEN CITY FORCE INC, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREEN CITY FORCE INC?
- The Corps Network is the largest funder on record, with $4,743,749 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREEN CITY FORCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 68 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