Green America

What it reported doing in 2024

Consumer education: green living - through publications, websites, email newsletters, webcasts, and social media, provides public education on green living, including reducing energy and resource use, avoiding toxins, reusing and recycling, including: green american - a magazine covering the social and environmental issues of our time.action e newsletter - provides green living information and opportunities to take action for a green economy and corporate responsibility.guide to social investing & better banking - a guide to help people make green investing and banking decisions.your green life - tips and strategies for greening your life, purchases, and investments.climate and clean energy - the climate & energy program gives people tools to reduce their own carbon footprint while encouraging the most polluting corporations to do the same. The program mobilizes consumers, investors, businesses, and industry experts to encourage key state, local, federal and business decision makers to adopt the policies and regulations needed to bring solar and wind energy to scale and institute energy efficiency measures everywhere. The program encourages major corporations to reduce fossil fuel use and other climate pollutants such as refrigerants and switch to clean energy and other climate-friendly alternatives. The program has also developed the idea of clean energy victory bonds and educates the public about the importance of new financing mechanisms for renewable energy and energy efficiency. Socially and environmentally responsible investing and banking - the socially and environmentally responsible investing and banking program exposes banks that prey on consumers through predatory practices, and that finance the fossil fuel industry. The community investing program successfully promotes community investing solutions that provide financial services and opportunities to economically disadvantaged communities that are underserved by traditional financial institutions. The break up with your mega-bank and get a better bank campaigns are conducted to educate consumers about the impact banks and credit cards have on people and the planet. The organization also provides education on fossil fuel divestment and clean energy investment for consumers interested in using investment strategies to mitigate the climate crisis.labor justice - the labor justice program reaches out to consumers across the nation through our publications, websites, to oppose the worst labor conditions through its campaigns. Green america conducts the toxic textiles campaign to educate the public about worker and environmental exposure to toxins in supply chains and to put pressure on companies to end this exposure. The program also calls out labor abuses in the cocoa sector, and at major online retail giants such as amazon.com, and encourages manufacturers to improve labor conditions in their supply chains. Finally, the program encourages consumers to purchase responsibly produced products.food campaign - the purpose of this program is to accelerate the shift of the food system from industrial agriculture to regenerative, organic, local, sustainable foods. The current focus of this program is on promoting regenerative agriculture that nourishes the soil and sequesters carbon emissions. The climate victory gardens campaign encourages all americans to plant a garden using regenerative agriculture practices.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 87
• Fundraising efficiency: $7.5 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 20th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
• Grant itemization coverage: 97.7%; rating input score 98; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 69.2%; rating input score 69; 11th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -47.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.03; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 14.2%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings