New York · Nonprofit
URBAN GREEN COUNCIL
URBAN GREEN COUNCIL (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,830,121 to it, the largest being CLIMATE IMPERATIVE FOUNDATION ($429,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $525k
What Urban Green Council does
Mission
The mission of the organization is to transform buildings for a sustainable future in new york city and around the world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Urban green advances sustainability in new york city by educating over 5,000 area professionals on green building issues and strategies each year; developing cutting-edge research on green building topics applicable to dense cities; and working with a range of public and private stakeholders in new york city to make buildings more efficient and resilient.
$1,836,910 spent$1,289,959 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,836,910.
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 2021 to 2022, from $893k to $1.2M (+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: 2022 7% · 2023 5% · 2024 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of URBAN GREEN COUNCIL’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. 4 of the last 6 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
John Mandyck
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Sara Kendall
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $71k → $637k.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.0M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United States Energy Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money URBAN GREEN COUNCIL raised.
From the IRS filings of URBAN GREEN COUNCIL’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
URBAN GREEN COUNCIL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
63% 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 URBAN GREEN COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 37% · 2019 61% · 2020 42% · 2021 41% · 2022 54% · 2023 67% — 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
38% of URBAN GREEN COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
51% of URBAN GREEN COUNCIL's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $716k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
URBAN GREEN COUNCIL's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like URBAN GREEN COUNCIL
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for URBAN GREEN COUNCIL: 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 URBAN GREEN COUNCIL?
- URBAN GREEN COUNCIL (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,830,121 to it, the largest being CLIMATE IMPERATIVE FOUNDATION ($429,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN GREEN COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,830,121 in grants to URBAN GREEN COUNCIL, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN GREEN COUNCIL?
- CLIMATE IMPERATIVE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $429,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN GREEN COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 22 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