Green Cities Fund Inc
Overview
Mission
Support of environmental protection and sustainability , Development of an academic curriculum and assistance in the development of entrepreneurial skills with respect to worker owned businesses in Latin America, Production of educational documentary film "God is a Woman" about the indigenous Kuna people of Panama
What it reported doing in 2025
Grants and contribution paid and received
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 90% of its reported program spending out as grants.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203911647
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Headquarters
- Berkeley, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5108910616
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 150% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 48.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 37.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 1 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $417K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 annual filings from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2025.