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GREEN SEAL INC

GREEN SEAL INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $89 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($89). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$3.7M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$89
Net assets
$818k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Green Seal Inc does

Mission

To protect human health and the environment by accelerating the adoption of products that are safer and more sustainable.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Green seal is a global nonprofit committed to making safety and sustainability everyone's business. The ecolabeling movement we pioneered decades ago has driven permanent shifts in the marketplace, empowering informed purchasing decisions and rewarding industry innovators. Green seal's hallmark is to lead with science to spur innovation for a more sustainable economy, exposing the false choice between environmental and economic health. From prompting a nationwide shift toward recycled-content paper, to catalyzing a movement toward low-voc products, the green seal certification mark is a trusted symbol that products meet truly comprehensive health and sustainability leadership standards. Green seal's flagship certification program and its other initatives are designed to (continued on schedule o)accelerate the market adoption of safer and more sustainable products. As part of this work, green seal leads multi-stakeholder initiatives to align consumer-packaged goods, retail, institutional, and industrial product communities around the core elements of safer and more sustainable everyday products to reduce marketplace confusion. In 2025, our standards encompass approximately 1,750…

    $2,998,635 spent$3,669,618 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,998,635.

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 ($2.7M) Expenses 100 ($2.9M) Net assets 100 ($664k)2018 Revenue 103 ($2.8M) Expenses 99 ($2.8M) Net assets 93 ($618k)2019 Revenue 110 ($3.0M) Expenses 108 ($3.1M) Net assets 78 ($520k)2020 Revenue 107 ($2.9M) Expenses 109 ($3.1M) Net assets 46 ($307k)2021 Revenue 126 ($3.4M) Expenses 100 ($2.8M) Net assets 133 ($884k)2022 Revenue 112 ($3.1M) Expenses 101 ($2.9M) Net assets 159 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 122 ($3.3M) Expenses 112 ($3.2M) Net assets 178 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 131 ($3.6M) Expenses 136 ($3.9M) Net assets 129 ($855k)2025 Revenue 136 ($3.7M) Expenses 131 ($3.7M) Net assets 123 ($818k)
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Revenue (136)Expenses (131)Net assets (123)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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.4M (+27%).

$1.4M
$1.2M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.4M
$1.6M
$1.9M
$1.8M
$1.6M
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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: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of GREEN SEAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,293 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$137k
’17
−$45k
’18
−$99k
’19
−$213k
’20
$578k
’21
$173k
’22
$128k
’23
−$330k
’24
−$36k
’25
3.1
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.

Chief executive

Douglas Gatlin

CEO

Board chair

Nancy Hersh

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.

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Listed141514151516121214
Joined·+3+3+3+4+5+1+2+4
No longer listed·24244522
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $28 → $20.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SEAL 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.

Where its funders are

100% of GREEN SEAL INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 SEAL INC's revenue grew 36% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding GREEN SEAL INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $53k on record.

State$53k
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  • (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$53k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

83%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 9 states

WI
NY
RI
VA
MD
TN
AL
GA
FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds GREEN SEAL INC?
GREEN SEAL INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $89 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($89). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GREEN SEAL INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $89 in grants to GREEN SEAL INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREEN SEAL INC?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $89 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREEN SEAL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 1 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