California · Nonprofit
MY GREEN LAB
MY GREEN LAB (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,149 to it, the largest being THE BULLITT FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $115k
- Net assets
- $-674083
What My Green Lab does
Mission
My Green Lab's mission is to build a culture of sustainability in science to transform the industry into a global leader on environmental sustainability. Through education, community engagement, and leading-edge certification programs, we are building a global culture of sustainability in science to transform the research community into a global leader on environmental sustainability.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
In order to align with international best practices for certification bodies and to enable further investment to scale the organization's mission and impact, My Green Lab established a subsidiary, impact laboratories, to serve as its independent certification body. Impact laboratories operates under a license agreement with My Green Lab to deliver certification services and collect the associated revenues. My Green Lab retains ownership of the intellectual property comprising the My Green Lab certification and act ecolabel program standards. My Green Lab continues to oversee the revision and maintenance of these standards through a voluntary consensus process to ensure they represent the most current and independent consensus of the scientific industry and research community, while impact laboratories conducts independent third-party audits under those standards.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
My Green Lab certification: My Green Lab develops, maintains and promotes the world's most trusted green lab certification program for operational laboratory sustainability, My Green Lab certification. At the end of 2024, My Green Lab worked with more than 3,700 laboratories and 41,650 scientists worldwide. This included 40 of the 50 largest biotech and pharmaceutical companies by revenue, more than 200 government and research institutions, and 624 organizations in total.in 2024, My Green Lab finalized an update to its flagship My Green Lab certification, releasing the 2.0 standard. This update was aligned with international best practices and led by an expert technical committee drawn from a global network of green lab practitioners in both academic and commercial settings.My Green Lab is responsible for the standard revision and update process and marketing and educational support. Delivery of the My Green Lab certification program is conducted by the independent third-party certification subsidiary, impact laboratories.
$464,608 spent$91,168 earned by the program50% of program spendingAct label for laboratory products: My Green Lab launched the first ecolabel for laboratory products, the My Green Lab act ecolabel, in 2017. By the end of 2024, more than 2,240 act ecolabels had been published. My Green Lab revised and update the standard, releasing act 2.0 standard during the year, following international best practices and guided by a technical committee of experts in sustainable products, life cycle assessment, and environmental certification. My Green Lab also initiated a pilot program to gather feedback from industry partners.My Green Lab is responsible for maintaining and updating the act standard and for providing marketing and educational support. Impact laboratories leads business development for the act label, and verico serves as the third-party certification body conducting third-party product certifications under the act standard.
$194,671 spent21% of program spendingGreen lab outreach: My Green Lab provides clear and accessible information to the global scientific community about best practices for sustainability in laboratories. In 2024, My Green Lab reached nearly 64,000 people through newsletters, recruited 8,500 ambassadors across 70 countries, and presented at more than 100 global conferences and events, including the un conference of parties (cop29). The My Green Lab global summit, an annual virtual event, hosted 1,600 participants from around the world.
$155,678 spent$5,765 earned by the program17% of program spendingMy Green Lab advocacy and education: in its fifth year, the international freezer challenge engaged 3,000 laboratories representing 239 research institutions worldwide. Participants achieved a combined energy savings of 31.8 million kwh per year.participation in the My Green Lab accredited professional (ap) program, the world's first in-depth education program on green lab principles, grew from 50 participants in 2023 to 235 by the end of 2024. My Green Lab develops the ap curriculum and provides marketing and educational support, while impact laboratories issues ap certificates to participants upon successful completion.
$116,803 spent13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $931,760.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.2M to $1.8M (+52%).
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: 2021 8% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of MY GREEN LAB’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
James Connelly
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $55k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 MY GREEN LAB’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
MY GREEN LAB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 91% — 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.
Where its funders are
MY GREEN LAB draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
MY GREEN LAB has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MY GREEN LAB
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Impact Laboratory Services Inc · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MY GREEN LAB?
- MY GREEN LAB (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,149 to it, the largest being THE BULLITT FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MY GREEN LAB have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $115,149 in grants to MY GREEN LAB, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MY GREEN LAB?
- THE BULLITT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MY GREEN LAB find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 4 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