Sustainable Jersey City Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462765266
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Jersey City, NJ, USA
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $125,210
- Expenses
- $114,068
- Assets
- $37,449
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Debra Italiano (President)
People named in this filing
- Debra Italiano (President)
- Ashwani Vasishth (Trustee Emeritus- Secretary)
- Philomena Scanga (Treasurer)
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
Environmental Studies & Education for the residents of Jersey City NJ. The various studies included: Urban Sensitivity to Heat in Jersey City heat islands SJCs Heat Watch Campaign Schools and Environmental Health Jersey City Schools and Green Spaces Jersey City Schools Report on Trees and Flooding Jersey City Schools Compared to Flood Zones NJ Turnpike Expansion Project and Air Quality Impact to Jersey City Schools and Jersey City Schools Proximity to Transportation Corridors. The various results from these studies were reported at city-wide public meetings to the City of Jersey City governing body and on the SJC website. Some of these studies were collaborations with the City of JC Health & Human Services Department & Rutgers University.
What it reported doing in 2025
USDA- UCF Grant: SJC Green Corridors Program - our urban forestry educational outreach efforts partnered with City of JC to plant 90 street trees and to educate the public by producing a Jackson Hill Main Street Urban Forestry Story Map for this underserved and environmental justice business district - largest in Jersey City. Purpose was to provide an education tool about collaboration at play to deliver equitable Tree Coverage in the City and educate residents businesses about Tree Stewardship in that particular environmental justice corridor of Jersey City. Sustainable Jersey City Story Mapping Project - produced a digital guide to Jersey City Street Trees i.e. the Jersey City Street Tree Dashboard for Residents to help residents educate themselves about the Street Trees in their neighborhoods in support of citywide advocacy efforts to restore the Jersey City Tree Canopy aka tree locations species conditions of trees comparative tree canopy statistics across the city et
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.6%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 75.3%; rating input score 75
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.9%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 40.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.1% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 35% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.6% of revenue deployed · 75.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $86K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.