Connecticut · Nonprofit
GREEN VILLAGE INITIATIVE INC
GREEN VILLAGE INITIATIVE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,267,142 to it, the largest being NEWMAN'S OWN FOUNDATION ($264,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $176k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $137k
What Green Village Initiative Inc does
Mission
To grow food, knowledge, leadership and community through urban gardening and farming, to create a more just food system in bridgeport, ct.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Reservoir community farm and youth leadership program - reservoir community farm, bridgeport's first urban farm, is a 1.7 acre welcoming community gathering place and educational farm. We engage hundreds of individuals in farming and gardening while growing and selling pesticide-free produce at below market prices. Each year hundreds of volunteers have grown with us at reservoir community farm during open volunteer days. Our youth program cultivates local high school youth as representatives of social change. The program incorporates job-readiness and food justice advocacy in addition to agricultural skill-building at reservoir community farm.
$108,842 spent$8,495 earned by the program56% of program spendingCommunity gardens and partner gardens - community gardens is a network of 12 neighborhood gardens that nourish our bridgeport community. Gardens provde families a place to grow vegetables otherwise unavilable in most or all bridgeport neighborhoods and help stretch food budgets. Gvi delivers streamlined support to increase gardeners' self-determination and facilitate agricultural skill-building among the community. Our team consults partner organizations and peer groups on building and maintaining garden beds and community gardens. Our community garden network supports about 150 bridgeport families in growing their own food. Our partnerships with other organizations provide workshops and training opportunities to gardeners throughout the year.
$46,011 spent24% of program spendingYouth leadership program strived to cultivate young food leaders in bridgeport by developing skills in agricultural knowledge, food justice, career readiness, and leadership. These skills were achieved through participation in the summer youth crew and academic year fellowships which spanned many years and saw the participation of many talented young leaders. Youth helped determine their role in the food system by forging meaningful connections with their neighbors, land, community, and city.
$40,237 spent21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $195,090.
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 2020 to 2021, from $381k to $695k (+82%).
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 1% · 2018 19% · 2020 34% · 2021 11% · 2022 42% · 2023 61% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of GREEN VILLAGE INITIATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Eileen O'Reilly
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $121k → $121k.
6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 VILLAGE INITIATIVE 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.
How concentrated its funding is
GREEN VILLAGE INITIATIVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
54% 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 VILLAGE INITIATIVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 70% · 2019 45% · 2020 42% · 2021 54% · 2022 33% · 2023 45% — 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 VILLAGE INITIATIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
58% of GREEN VILLAGE INITIATIVE INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $562k 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 VILLAGE INITIATIVE INC's revenue fell 50% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding GREEN VILLAGE INITIATIVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $785k on record — $400k federal, $385k state.
- Department of Agriculture$400k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$279k
- State Aid Grants$105k
- Recreational Supplies$1k
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 VILLAGE INITIATIVE 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREEN VILLAGE INITIATIVE INC?
- GREEN VILLAGE INITIATIVE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,267,142 to it, the largest being NEWMAN'S OWN FOUNDATION ($264,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREEN VILLAGE INITIATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,267,142 in grants to GREEN VILLAGE INITIATIVE INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREEN VILLAGE INITIATIVE INC?
- NEWMAN'S OWN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $264,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREEN VILLAGE INITIATIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23 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