Minnesota · Nonprofit
RESILIENT CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
RESILIENT CITIES AND COMMUNITIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,766 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($65,750). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $252k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $89k
- Net assets
- $36k
What Resilient Cities and Communities does
Mission
Resilient Cities and Communities (RCC) mobilizes over 2,000 local leaders to implement high-impact, hands-on environmental projects, including urban reforestation, energy efficiency improvements, and habitat restoration. By connecting volunteer teams with non-profit and government partners, the organization fosters neighborhood-level action to achieve regional resilience and climate goals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Growing healthy tree canopies through education, tree planting events and supporting volunteer teams to sign up neighbors to water new trees, Convening volunteer teams active with community and pollinator gardens, habitat restoration, litter clean ups and water quality. Multifamily Building recycling and energy efficiency outreach Convening peer learning circles for families to learn steps to improve home indoor air quality and health
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Urban Forestry and Community Greening - we partnered with 3 neighborhoods, the Minneapolis Health Department, MPRB and Birch Tree to organize tree education workshops and tree planting events with parents and kids working side by side with trained foresters to plant trees at child care centers, schools, parks and nonprofit affordable housing locations. We offered the tree education sessions in both English and Spanish to engage Latine community members to learn about the benefits of trees, how to correctly plant trees and care for them, how to manage tree pests and about opportunities for careers in Forestry. We're supporting 4 neighborhoods to increase their tree coverage from 15% up to 40% by ensuring that all new trees are planted correctly and are watered weekly for the first 3 years to get well established to provide benefits for decades to come. https://rccmn.co/trees Through our Growing Communities outreach with Hennepin County we engaged community members to help plan a new pollinator garden that is being developed on a vacant lot in an industrial area in Eden Prairies that is adjacent to a regional bike trail. RCC is partnering with Landbridge Ecological and Hennepin…
$95,000 spentof which $100,000 as grants$5,000 earned by the program52% of program spendingHealthy and Energy Efficient Homes - Through home energy workshops and door to door outreach we supported more than 200 households to make home energy and health improvements in partnership with neighborhoods. the Center for Energy Environment, Frontier Energy, SRC, cities and utilities. Hennepin County Green Partners supported our Corcoran & Phillips home energy efficiency workshops and community dinners to support home owners who had received energy audits to get projects done with encouragement from neighbors and connections with quality contractors. https://rccmn.co/corcoran-saves-energy/ With support from the MPCA RCC partnered with the 14 cities active with the Ramsey Co League of Local Governments and metro CERTS to organize successful home energy outreach with residents of a manufactured home park community in Vadnais Heights and Shoreview volunteers organizing a similar campaign. https://rccmn.co/manufactured-homes/ With support from Hennepin County Climate and Energy, RCC's Program Director co-organized monthly Indoor Air Quality Peer Learning sessions with 20 families at Little Earth of United Tribes. Residents learned from resource speakers steps they can take to…
$47,000 spentof which $44,000 as grants$3,000 earned by the program26% of program spendingMultifamily Building Energy Efficiency and Recycling - With support from the City of Minneapolis RCC and Phillips West Community outreach staff and volunteers engaged both renters and their building owners to learn how they can benefit from boosting recycling and energy efficiency in their buildings. Multifamily Recycling - we did 1 on 1 outreach to connect with the building owners or managers of 25 multifamily buildings in Phillips to help them to get recycling started and provide tips and recycling tote bags to support residents of the buildings to use their new recycling systems. Building on our momentum on recycling RCC, and PWNO are following up with the building managers of smaller and larger multifamily buildings to request building energy audits and to follow up to get recommended energy improvements done to help building owners and renters save money on their energy bills while staying more comfortable in the summer and winter https://rccmn.co/greening-your-building
$41,728 spentof which $42,000 as grants$272 earned by the program23% of program spendingExpanding Our Reach for a Resilient Future, together in 2026 Stronger block connections & support for immigrant neighbors: You shared food & supported immigrant community neighbors. www.rccmn.co/block-clubs/ Energy outreach across the metro: Together well link green teams to follow Prospect Parks successful model to support neighbors across the metro to make home improvements. www.rccmn.co/buildings/ (Trib Story) https://www.startribune.com/how-one-minneapolis-neighborhood-reduced-its-carbon-emissions-by-1600-metric-tons/XXX-XX-XXXX Launching Green Careers! Bi-lingual Green Career Resource Fair Dec 11 https://rccmn.co/green-jobs/ Fresh food for all: we convened community garden leaders in November and we'll meet back up in the meet in the spring co-launch gardens hubs in South, SE, North and NE Minneapolis to team up to distribute compost, plants and raised beds & then grow and share fresh produce with neighbors. www.rccmn.co/gardens-food-pollinators Keeping our lakes swimmable: Well co-host forums with neighborhood teams, MPRB and Public Works staff to plan next steps to reduce salt, trash and nutrient runoff and restore shorelines https://rccmn.co/water Creating a zero-waste…
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $183,728.
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 2024 to 2025, from $16k to $38k (+139%).
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.
27% of RESILIENT CITIES AND COMMUNITIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Sean Gosiewski
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $6k → $13k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 RESILIENT CITIES AND COMMUNITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 funders by total. 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
RESILIENT CITIES AND COMMUNITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 RESILIENT CITIES AND COMMUNITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 83% · 2022 67% · 2023 77% — 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
74% of RESILIENT CITIES AND COMMUNITIES'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. Of the $23k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k 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
RESILIENT CITIES AND COMMUNITIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like RESILIENT CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RESILIENT CITIES AND COMMUNITIES: 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 RESILIENT CITIES AND COMMUNITIES?
- RESILIENT CITIES AND COMMUNITIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,766 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($65,750). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RESILIENT CITIES AND COMMUNITIES have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $88,766 in grants to RESILIENT CITIES AND COMMUNITIES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RESILIENT CITIES AND COMMUNITIES?
- THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $65,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RESILIENT CITIES AND COMMUNITIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 7 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