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GREEN LIVING SCIENCE

GREEN LIVING SCIENCE (Michigan) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,160,525 to it, the largest being THE GILBERT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($738,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$714k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$330k
9/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 99%
01What it does

What Green Living Science does

Mission

The mission of Green Living Science is to transform detroit by teaching about waste and recycling. We are dedicated to increasing awareness of environmental issues & personal responsibility through education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Community - gls works closely in the community to help provide access to programming. Community programming targets residents of all ages and helps to bring new resources to the lincoln street art park.

    $232,313 spentof which $232,313 as grants
    38% of program spending
  2. Curbside recycling program: recycling workshops: gls hosts recycling workshops at block club and community group meetings to train detroit residents living in single family homes or multi-family homes no more than 4 units how to recycle through the city curbside recycling program.

    $139,622 spent$260,874 earned by the program
    23% of program spending
  3. Education: working in partnership with local scholls and teachers, we provide recycling and environmental education. These lessons are aligned with michigan science standards, and heavily incorporate the different steam (science, technology, engineering, art, math) disciplines.

    $67,070 spentof which $15,000 as grants
    11% of program spending
  4. Ambassador program: the ambassador programs employ detroiters to assist with attending community events through the city of detroit to sign up residents for free recycling carts for their homes. Bee green business - gls assists businesses, multi-family housing, and schools to set up waste reduction and recycling programs.

    $170,724 spentof which $81,157 as grants$23,637 earned by the program
    28% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $609,729.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($170k) Expenses 100 ($157k) Net assets 100 ($114k)2018 Revenue 119 ($201k) Expenses 127 ($198k) Net assets 102 ($116k)2019 Revenue 181 ($307k) Expenses 176 ($275k) Net assets 130 ($148k)2020 Revenue 164 ($279k) Expenses 178 ($278k) Net assets 131 ($149k)2021 Revenue 95 ($162k) Expenses 96 ($151k) Net assets 140 ($159k)2022 Revenue 140 ($237k) Expenses 140 ($219k) Net assets 155 ($177k)2023 Revenue 278 ($472k) Expenses 245 ($385k) Net assets 232 ($264k)2024 Revenue 391 ($663k) Expenses 396 ($621k) Net assets 269 ($306k)2025 Revenue 421 ($714k) Expenses 440 ($690k) Net assets 290 ($330k)
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Revenue (421)Expenses (440)Net assets (290)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $114k to $247k (+117%).

$114k
$247k
$178k
$156k
$160k
$189k
$264k
$352k
$442k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 11% · 2019 18% · 2020 16% · 2021 32% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

59% of GREEN LIVING SCIENCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’17
$3k
’18
$32k
’19
$578
’20
$11k
’21
$17k
’22
$87k
’23
$42k
’24
$24k
’25
5.8
months of
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.

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Listed99577667
Joined·+2+1+2+2+0+0+1
No longer listed·2502100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $82k → $286k.

4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 LIVING SCIENCE’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 LIVING SCIENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

28% 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 LIVING SCIENCE.

64%
largest funder
81%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 99% · 2019 83% · 2020 65% · 2021 59% · 2022 65% · 2023 77% — 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

38% of GREEN LIVING SCIENCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

99% of GREEN LIVING SCIENCE's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI
NY
NE
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $192k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GREEN LIVING SCIENCE has grown faster than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve5.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 11%Fundraising 1%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

69%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

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Questions and answers

Who funds GREEN LIVING SCIENCE?
GREEN LIVING SCIENCE (Michigan) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,160,525 to it, the largest being THE GILBERT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($738,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GREEN LIVING SCIENCE have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,160,525 in grants to GREEN LIVING SCIENCE, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREEN LIVING SCIENCE?
THE GILBERT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $738,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREEN LIVING SCIENCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 16 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