North Carolina · Nonprofit
GREEN OPPORTUNITIES INC
GREEN OPPORTUNITIES INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $810,789 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($200,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $671k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $811k
- Net assets
- $-159161
What Green Opportunities Inc does
Mission
Green opportunities ("go") connects youth and adults from low-wealth neighborhoods to sustained employment opportunities that support and improve community and environmental health.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
Green opportunities ("go") ran and completed 3 kitchen ready training programs (1 first tier, 2 2nd tier); helped 32 people in asheville city and additional 10 people outside limits complete job training or be placed in a job. Construction training students completed framing for low income housing. Five students completed their ged. Two students earned their osha certification, one student was assisted with joining a cna class staff and students completed free repairs on 10 homes owned by families who are low income. When the covid-19 pandemic started, the go southside kitchen began serving meals to at risk residents of the public housing authority, haca. Over 25,000 meals were served between march and june 2020. Over the course of the year, go employed go connects youth and adults from low-wealth neighborhoods to sustained employment opportunities that support and improve community and environmental health. Training and placement: the core goal of our trainings is to provide students with the hands on skills and portable technical credentials necessary to find and retain employment. We focus on well paying, sustained employment in jobs that increase community and environmental…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $513k to $310k (−40%).
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 46% · 2018 38% · 2019 43% · 2020 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $258k → $24.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 OPPORTUNITIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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 OPPORTUNITIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
48% 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 OPPORTUNITIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 44% · 2019 40% · 2020 46% · 2021 87% · 2022 75% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of GREEN OPPORTUNITIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
56% of GREEN OPPORTUNITIES INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $124k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Government funding GREEN OPPORTUNITIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $911k on record.
- Department of Labor$911k
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 OPPORTUNITIES 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREEN OPPORTUNITIES INC?
- GREEN OPPORTUNITIES INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $810,789 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($200,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREEN OPPORTUNITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $810,789 in grants to GREEN OPPORTUNITIES INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREEN OPPORTUNITIES INC?
- THE KRESGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREEN OPPORTUNITIES INC 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 13 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