Greenbizorg

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841735051
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Oakland, CA, USA
Phone
5105508285
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$152,845
Assets
$13
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOEL MAKOWER (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JOEL MAKOWER (PRESIDENT)
  • BRYAN LEWIS (PROGRAM MANAGER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Greenbiz.org is a non-profit organization working to nurture and empower bipoc professionals to accelerate a just transition to a clean economy. By providing independent and authentic storytelling (including journalistic and content-related activities), research and related programs that accelerate new markets and inform, inspire, and empower current and future generations for leadership in sustainability and the clean economy.

What it reported doing in 2025

Greenbiz.org is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization working to nurture and empower bipoc professionals to accelerate a just transition to a clean economy.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 59% for direct work, and 41% for grants.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 38
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 10
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 45.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 35.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -76.8% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -69.7% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $153K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.