Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
HABITABLE
HABITABLE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,875,058 to it, the largest being The Passport Foundation ($1,301,008). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $7.9M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Habitable does
Mission
Habitable has a vision that all people and the planet thrive when the materials economy is in balance with nature. Our mission is to improve human and environmental health by creating bold, science-based solutions that inspire materials innovations to eliminate pollution, mitigate climate change, and create a more equitable future. Habitable is a leading organization reducing pollution by advocating for a reduction in the use of toxic chemicals and plastics throughout the supply chain as products are made, used, and disposed. Our five key strategies are: 1) build capacity for informed decisions, 2) drive market demand and adoption, 3) increase transparency and public disclosure, 4) reduce chemicals of concern use, and 5) decrease exposure to toxic chemicals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Habitable currently has programs in three areas: innovative research; powerful data tools; and capacity-building education. 1.innovative research Habitable publishes innovative, actionable research that advances human and environmental health. For example, kaiser permanente cited Habitable's research as the driver for its decision to prohibit the use of antimicrobial additives in its building product specification, and the home depot relied upon Habitable's research to adopt a hazard avoidance chemical strategy that signals fundamental, permanent and systemic improvement in the building products industry, and is a strong step towards health equity in building products. In addition, our influential electronic publications reach thousands of healthy building professionals, scientists, researchers and others interested in decreasing chemicals of concern and are key resources for opinion leaders in the field. As a thought leader, Habitable focuses on market trends and policy issues that impact the green building community and other product markets that support a circular economy. In communicating our latest research findings we are often the first to raise new issues of concern that…
$5,772,961 spentof which $1,196,205 as grants$2,676,111 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,772,961.
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 2024 to 2025, from $4.9M to $3.0M (−38%).
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: 2020 10% · 2021 8% · 2022 1% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of HABITABLE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (70% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Gina Ciganik
CEO
Board chair
Nsedu Obot Witherspoon
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $244k → $1.4M.
8 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 HABITABLE’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
HABITABLE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 52% · 2019 48% · 2020 19% · 2021 20% · 2022 32% · 2023 42% — 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
44% of HABITABLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
HABITABLE draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
HABITABLE has grown faster than half of the 513 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 513 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HABITABLE
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HABITABLE: 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 HABITABLE?
- HABITABLE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,875,058 to it, the largest being The Passport Foundation ($1,301,008). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HABITABLE have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $7,875,058 in grants to HABITABLE, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HABITABLE?
- The Passport Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,301,008 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HABITABLE 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.
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 30 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