Maryland · Nonprofit
Our Zero Waste Future Incorporated
Our Zero Waste Future Incorporated (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,300 to it, the largest being THE MORRIS GOLDSEKER FOUNDATION OF MARYLAND INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $74k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $93k
- Net assets
- $32k
What Our Zero Waste Future Incorporated does
Mission
To promote awareness on the value of discarded materials by encouraging zero waste behaviors and facilitating thriving communities through cooperative business development.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
GRASS Baltimore is a zero waste cooperative centered around recovering bottle glass from restaurants and residences and turning it into artwork jewelry and glassware. GRASS also offers space for other artists to sell or perform their work.
$68,041 spent68% of program spendingEngagement: Leave No Waste is an entity providing business-to-business advisory on zero waste strategies as well as engagement with communities and local institutions to discuss their zero waste management approaches en route to higher diversion and reuse rates.
$11,002 spent11% of program spendingGRASS Baltimore is a zero waste cooperative centered around recovering bottle glass from restaurants and residences from restaurants and residences and turning it into artwork jewelry and glassware. GRASS also offers space for other artists to sell or perform their work.
$21,231 spent21% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $100,274.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $68k to $51k (−24%).
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: 2024 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Our Zero Waste Future Incorporated’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 Our Zero Waste Future Incorporated’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
Our Zero Waste Future Incorporated has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
33% 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 Our Zero Waste Future Incorporated.
“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
72% of Our Zero Waste Future Incorporated's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k 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.
Against its field
Our Zero Waste Future Incorporated's revenue fell 51% between 2023 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Our Zero Waste Future Incorporated
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Glass Recovery and Sustainable Systems Baltimore LLC · disregarded
- Leave No Waste · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Our Zero Waste Future Incorporated: 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 Our Zero Waste Future Incorporated?
- Our Zero Waste Future Incorporated (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,300 to it, the largest being THE MORRIS GOLDSEKER FOUNDATION OF MARYLAND INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Our Zero Waste Future Incorporated have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $93,300 in grants to Our Zero Waste Future Incorporated.
- Who is the largest funder of Our Zero Waste Future Incorporated?
- THE MORRIS GOLDSEKER FOUNDATION OF MARYLAND INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Our Zero Waste Future Incorporated find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 8 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