Urban Land Institute

What it reported doing in 2024

Content: the institute delivers content to its members and the community at large through a number of funded centers and initiatives: the randall lewis center for sustainability in real estate is dedicated to creating healthy, resilient, and high-performance communities around the world. Through the work of its greenprint and urban resilience programs, the center provides leadership and support to land use professionals to invest in energy performance and portfolio resilience while reducing risks due to a changing climate. Continued on schedule o.the uli center for capital markets and real estate was founded in 2009 with a mission to promote understanding of the real estate capital markets and provide leadership in fostering a healthy and productive real estate capital markets sector. Uli currently is engaged in real estate finance and capital market activities and programs across the organization, and the center is integrally involved in developing, guiding, and/or showcasing both ongoing and new programs.the uli terwilliger center for housing conducts research, performs analysis, provides expert advice, and develops best practice recommendations that reflect the residential land use and development priorities of uli members in all residential product types, with special attention to workforce and affordable housing. The center integrates uli's wide-ranging housing activities into a program of work that furthers the development of mixed-income communities with a range of housing options.the uli greenprint center is a catalyst for change, taking meaningful, immediate and measurable actions to generate real estate solutions that improve the environment through energy efficiency while demonstrating the correlation with increased property values. Greenprint focuses on reducing the carbon footprint of existing buildings, which currently represent one-third of global carbon emissions and works to achieve its carbon reduction goals through education and action. The center uses the collective power of its membership to lead by example in lowering carbon emissions by exploring and implementing energy-reducing technologies, sharing their performance results with the public through the greenprint performance report, tm.the robert c. Larson leadership initiative enables uli to add leadership development activities to its program of work and extend the institute's reach to many more current and potential leaders. The initiative also supports the work of the uli women's leadership initiative whose mission is to raise the visibility and number of women leaders in uli and the real estate industry.uli's urban resilience program provides uli members, the public, and communities across the united states with information on how to be more resilient in the face of climate change and other environmental vulnerabilities. The program seeks to provide technical assistance, advance knowledge, and catalyze adoption of transformative market practices and policies. Through advisory services, research, convenings, and support of district council projects, the urban resilience program seeks to enhance community resilience with a focus on the built environment, real estate markets, and the land use policy sector.the uli building healthy places initiative is a multifaceted program including research and publications, convenings, and advisory activities to leverage the power of the institute's global networks to shape projects and places in ways that improve the health of people and communities.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 80.1%; rating input score 80
• Program expense ratio: 78%; rating input score 78
• Fundraising efficiency: $5.83 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Pass
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
• Grant itemization coverage: 99.7%; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 42nd 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: -2.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.99; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 6.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings