Us Green Building Council Central California Chapter

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
900404106
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Fresno, CA, USA
Phone
5599167023
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$77,014
Expenses
$106,917
Assets
$56,484
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Laura Gromis (Executive Director)
  • Uris Giron (President)
  • Mayuko Russell (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Laura Gromis (Executive Director)
  • Uris Giron (President)
  • Sheila Hakimipour (Secretary)

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

USGBC's mission is to engage San Joaquin Valley California communities in the transformational development and promotion of ecologically healthy built environments.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Transformative Climate Communities Project funds development and infrastructure projects that achieve major environmental, health, and economic benefits in California's most disadvantaged communities in the San Joaquin Valley. It empowers communities most impacted by pollution to greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution. The program is the community outreach and education component of the Transform Fresno initiative to create transformative climate communities in southwest Fresno, Downtown and Chinatown.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 71% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • 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: -38.8%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 73.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -30.1% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $107K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.