Oregon · Nonprofit
URBAN GREENSPACES INSTITUTE
URBAN GREENSPACES INSTITUTE (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $368,661 to it, the largest being THE BULLITT FOUNDATION ($160,150). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $72k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $369k
- Net assets
- $132k
What Urban Greenspaces Institute does
Mission
To ensure that parks, regional train systems, greenways and greenspaces are integrated with the built environment in the portland-vancouver region, and to promote urban greenspace efforts nationally and internationally.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Serve on local, regional, and national advisory boards to create and advance policies and investments around urban green infrastructure.
$53,655 spent34% of program spendingConvene regional conservation partners and collaborate to safeguard urban ecosystems and services and educate the public about regional greenspaces and trails.
$56,811 spent36% of program spendingEngage and increase cultural diversity in the outdoors and urban conservation sectors.
$47,343 spent30% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $157,809.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $62k to $130k (+108%).
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.
99% of URBAN GREENSPACES INSTITUTE’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. 3 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Daniela Brod
Board chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $16k → $32k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 URBAN GREENSPACES INSTITUTE’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 GREENSPACES INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
31% 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 GREENSPACES INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 49% · 2019 60% · 2020 68% · 2021 83% · 2022 100% · 2023 79% — 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
URBAN GREENSPACES INSTITUTE draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $104k 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
URBAN GREENSPACES INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding URBAN GREENSPACES INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $106k on record — $22k federal, $83k state.
- Department of the Interior$16k
- Department of Agriculture$7k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$69k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$12k
- ADVERTISE, PUBLICITY, PUBLISH/PRINT SRVS$3k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like URBAN GREENSPACES INSTITUTE
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
87%
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 GREENSPACES INSTITUTE: 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 GREENSPACES INSTITUTE?
- URBAN GREENSPACES INSTITUTE (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $368,661 to it, the largest being THE BULLITT FOUNDATION ($160,150). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN GREENSPACES INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $368,661 in grants to URBAN GREENSPACES INSTITUTE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN GREENSPACES INSTITUTE?
- THE BULLITT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $160,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN GREENSPACES INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2019–2025), 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