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GREENER BY DEFAULT

EIN 92-1286554 CHICAGO, IL

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Revenue 2025
$1,767,869
Expenses 2025
$1,860,429

Program services were 87.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K40
Classification
2000
Street
1519 W WARREN BLVD UNIT 503 PMB 175

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

GREENER BY DEFAULT'S MISSION IS TO CONSULT WITH INSTITUTIONS TO APPLY BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE TO FOOD POLICY, NUDGING DINERS TOWARD SUSTAINABLE PLANT-BASED FOOD WHILE PRESERVING FREEDOM OF CHOICE.

  • IN 2025, WE SHIFTED AN ESTIMATED 6 MILLION MEALS FROM MEAT TO PLANT-BASED OPTIONS ACROSS OUR PARTNERSHIPS. WE EXPANDED OUR TEAM TO 18 STAFF MEMBERS AND GREW OUR EXPERTISE. ONE OF OUR KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS WAS EXPANDING PLANT-BASED PATIENT DEFAULTS TO 400 U.S. HOSPITALS THROUGH OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH SODEXO. WE ALSO LAUNCHED EIGHT PILOT PROGRAMS AT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY AND OUR WORK EXPANDED INTO NEW SECTORS, INCLUDING OUR FIRST PARTNERSHIPS WITH A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION, A CONVENTION CENTER, AND A PROFESSIONAL SPORTS VENUE. ADDITIONALLY, WE JOINED BILLIE EILISHS HIT ME HARD AND SOFT TOUR, PROVIDING MENU SUPPORT AND CULINARY TRAINING AT 11 MAJOR ARENAS. DURING THE YEAR, WE SHARED OUR EXPERTISE WITH OVER 25,000 PROFESSIONALS THROUGH FORUMS SUCH AS THE ASPEN IDEAS SUMMIT AND THE WORLD BANK.

    Expenses $1,626,514 · Revenue $18,025

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.

  • Katherine Cantrell

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $107,839
    From this org
    $97,189
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,650
    Hours/week
    40

  • Ilana Braverman

    COO

    Total calculated
    $108,443
    From this org
    $96,143
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,300
    Hours/week
    40

  • Wei Tai Kwok

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Sandeep Patel

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Lydia Chaudhry

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Katie Excoffier

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Benjamin Happ

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Ali Saad

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

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
    $1,767,869
    Expenses
    $1,860,429
    Contributions
    $1,706,307
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,654,373
    Expenses
    $890,843
    Contributions
    $1,588,881
    Grants paid
    $630
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,079,977
    Expenses
    $430,984
    Contributions
    $889,037
    Grants paid
    $1,000

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2022

Tax period
1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022
Principal officer
Ilana Braverman
Mailing address
2501 CHATHAM RD STE NSPRINGFIELD IL 627044188
Website
GREENERBYDEFAULT.COM

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.