Form 990 for tax year 2025
Filed by URBAN SUSTAINABILITY SOLUTIONS INC.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $378,571
- Total expenses
- $321,677
- Contributions and grants received
- $35,720
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $342,019
- Investment income
- $832
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $146,786
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $60,000
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $86,786
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $259,296
- Management and general expenses
- $62,381
- Fundraising expenses
- $0
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $259,296
Program services were 80.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$35,720
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1g · Noncash contributions included above
$0
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2a · Program service revenue: 319 NPS EPA
total $111,985 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2b · Program service revenue: OCCCA
total $58,100 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2c · Program service revenue: Independent Contracting
total $16,254 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2d · Program service revenue: BURTS BEES FD
total $30,000 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2e · Program service revenue: CITY OF RELEIGH
total $125,680 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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3 · Investment income
total $832 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $0 · program services $0
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0 · program services $0
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0 · program services $0
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4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0 · program services $0
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $61,204 · program services $43,979 · management and general $17,225 · fundraising $0
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11a · Fees: management
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11b · Fees: legal
total $5,000 · program services $0 · management and general $5,000 · fundraising $0
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $10,380 · program services $0 · management and general $10,380 · fundraising $0
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13 · Office expenses
total $3,384 · program services $838 · management and general $2,546 · fundraising $0
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14 · Information technology
total $10,000 · program services $0 · management and general $10,000 · fundraising $0
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $510 · program services $0 · management and general $510 · fundraising $0
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24a · Other expenses: CONTRACT SERVICES
total $13,729 · program services $13,729 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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24b · Other expenses: ENVIRONMENTAL CONTRACTORS
total $81,977 · program services $81,977 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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24c · Other expenses: STUDENT STIPENDS
total $38,540 · program services $38,540 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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24d · Other expenses: TEACHER STIPENDS
total $37,750 · program services $37,750 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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24e · All other expenses
total $59,203 · program services $42,483 · management and general $16,720 · fundraising $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $29,892 · end of year $146,786
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19 · Deferred revenue
end of year $60,000
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31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds
beginning of year $29,892 · end of year $86,786
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
to provide an urban ecosystem services program that will address three community issues: 1)Workforce development for youth. 2)Drainage assistance program for low-income households. 3)Improved water quality
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Clean Water Act-Section 319 Nonpoint Source Grant Fund, which will be used to construct the Wild Oak Lane RSC ($40,000) and to begin a pilot cost share program ($180,000) to improve water quality and address nonpoint source pollution at single family parcels that contain or are adjacent to a jurisdictional waterways. The project team has identified potential installation sites within the designated N.C. Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) underserved area. DEQ hopes to assist low income landowners with installation of small scale practices that reduce erosion and protect local streams.
Expenses $76,958 · Revenue $111,985
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Orange Countys Community Climate Action This funding is crucial to helping implement our Growing More Than Rain Gardens program, which aims to assist 10 Orange County teachers in running an after-school program for up to 50 students. This green infrastructure workforce development program is designed to administer and obtain after-school green-jobs training by job shadowing with environmental contractors. Students will be installing rain-gardens, rain-harvesting cisterns, riparian buffers, and other sustainable stormwater best management practices on underserved/low-income properties suffering from flooding and erosion issues in Orange County.
Expenses $39,698 · Revenue $58,100
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Independent Contracting - installation of cisterns, rain gardens and enviromental landscaping projects to help support the overall mission of the organization
Expenses $9,851 · Revenue $16,254
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Burts Bees Foundation-The money will support a teacher training program in August 2023, in which teachers from Durham Public Schools will train Orange County teachers on how to integrate the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM) stormwater curriculum into their classrooms.
Expenses $10,009 · Revenue $30,000
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Funding from this grant will help train teachers in Raleigh on how to implement the stormwater management curriculum into the classroom and fund a pilot after-school STEM apprenticeship program for youth.
Expenses $122,780 · Revenue $125,680
As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
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Michael Dupree
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 24
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Stanley J Robboy
Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
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Mike Rooney
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Sabine Schmalbeck
Member at Large
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Carmen Hightower
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Kevin Boyer
Member at Large
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 6
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2025
- Filed
- 6 February 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.0
- Source object
- 202640649349300724
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