My Green Lab
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462860098
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4243541494
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,171,805
- Expenses
- $1,329,774
- Assets
- $2,402,622
- Liabilities
- $3,076,705
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES CONNELLY (CEO)
- SCOTT GRANT (VICE PRESIDENT, CERTIFICATIONS)
Highest reported compensation
- JAMES CONNELLY (CEO): $215,129 total reported compensation
- SAM WRIGHT (COO & SECRETARY): $169,684 total reported compensation
- SCOTT GRANT (VICE PRESIDENT, CERTIFICATIONS): $144,618 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
My green lab's mission is to build a culture of sustainability in science to transform the industry into a global leader on environmental sustainability. Through education, community engagement, and leading-edge certification programs, we are building a global culture of sustainability in science to transform the research community into a global leader on environmental sustainability.
What it reported doing in 2024
My green lab certification: my green lab develops, maintains and promotes the world's most trusted green lab certification program for operational laboratory sustainability, my green lab certification. At the end of 2024, my green lab worked with more than 3,700 laboratories and 41,650 scientists worldwide. This included 40 of the 50 largest biotech and pharmaceutical companies by revenue, more than 200 government and research institutions, and 624 organizations in total.in 2024, my green lab finalized an update to its flagship my green lab certification, releasing the 2.0 standard. This update was aligned with international best practices and led by an expert technical committee drawn from a global network of green lab practitioners in both academic and commercial settings.my green lab is responsible for the standard revision and update process and marketing and educational support. Delivery of the my green lab certification program is conducted by the independent third-party certification subsidiary, impact laboratories.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.5%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 70.1%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.23 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.5%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.81; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.28; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.9%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.6% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 37.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.5% of revenue deployed · 70.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $932K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $215K · 11 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.