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BLACK SUSTAINABILITY INC

EIN 85-3364819 ATLANTA, GA

Largest nonprofits in Georgia

Revenue 2025
$498,578
Expenses 2025
$560,477

Program services were 50.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
1230
Street
352 UNIVERSITY AVE SW UNIT S103

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

To connect people of Afrikan descent in sustainability fields to resources and development opportunities.

  • All Other Programs (Education/Digital Platform, SBSR, Eco-Building/GWA, Community Development, 10x$10k, Alt. Economics, Green Lifestyle, Learning Journey, Sustainable Agriculture): BSI advanced its mission through multiple program areas including: the Black Sustainability eInstitute (BSeI) online learning platform and State of Black Sustainability Report (SBSR), a community-owned research publication spanning 12 industry houses; the Global Workforce Academy (GWA), a nationally registered apprenticeship program providing clean energy and construction credentials; Community Development programming including the Red, Black & Green Fund Regranting Initiative; and education and convening across Sustainable Agriculture, Alternative Economics, Green Lifestyle, and Learning Journey programs connecting people of Afrikan descent to sustainability resources and development opportunities.

    Expenses $140,447 · Grants $56,250 · Revenue $57,816

  • AfroEcology: AfroEcology is a movement, practice, and philosophy that merges ancestral African/diasporic agricultural wisdom with regenerative, climate-smart farming to build Black food sovereignty, community resilience, and ecological balance. It operates at the intersection of environmental justice, Black liberation, and land stewardship, focusing on reclaiming agrarian traditions to heal land and community.

    Expenses $61,291 · Grants $153,464 · Revenue $194,141

  • Annual Black Sustainability Summit: BSI hosted its 10th Annual Black Sustainability Summit as a multi-day in-person convening held in Ghana, West Africa (October 1527, 2025), bringing together practitioners, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts of Afrikan descent from across the global diaspora. The Summit provided a platform for networking, knowledge exchange, and collaborative strategy development across 12 sustainability industry houses. Participants engaged in beginner through advanced sessions on sustainable community development, land use, clean energy, food sovereignty, and cultural preservation. The event advanced BSIs mission to build interrelationships among Afrikans working across sustainability fields and to accelerate the development of sovereign, sustainable communities throughout the Afrikan diaspora and the continent.

    Expenses $55,618 · Grants $1,500 · Revenue $10,000

  • Alternative Energy: BSI advanced clean energy education, workforce development, and community access within the Black community through its Alternative Energy industry house, including programming aligned with its 12-pillar sustainability framework. Activities included research, convening, and knowledge-sharing connecting Black sustainability practitioners with clean energy resources, career pathways, and community-based energy solutions across the Afrikan diaspora.

    Expenses $17,180

  • Waste: BSI implemented waste reduction and circular economy initiatives within Black communities, including the Atlanta Shoe Deconstruction Training Program a 4-month hybrid course developed in partnership with Shoe Waste, LLC training participants in footwear deconstruction, material recovery, upcycling, and green job creation within the salvage economy. BSI also developed and deployed Zero Waste Event Strategies to assist Black-owned businesses and event organizers in eliminating single-use plastics, styrofoam, and aluminum foil in favor of biodegradable alternatives, advancing zero-waste goals within the Black community.

    Expenses $5,996 · Grants $181,694 · Revenue $181,694

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Raina Turner-Greenlea

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Yeamah Brewer

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Nobantu Ankoanda

    Finance Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • James Pippim

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Erica Hollman

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $498,578
    Expenses
    $560,477
    Contributions
    $53,695
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $822,822
    Expenses
    $1,181,582
    Contributions
    $95,695
    Grants paid
    $871,371
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,827,258
    Expenses
    $623,059
    Contributions
    $130,290
    Grants paid
    $404,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $298,514
    Expenses
    $433,270
    Contributions
    $4,393
    Grants paid
    $400,591

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $265,543
    Expenses
    $107,693
    Assets (EOY)
    $157,850

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2020

Tax period
1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
Principal officer
Raina Turner-Greenlea
Mailing address
1403 Downs Drive SWAtlanta GA 30311
Website
www.blacksustainabilitysummit.com

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.