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NEXT CITY INC

EIN 22-3886361 PHILADELPHIA, PA

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Revenue 2024
$1,794,873
Expenses 2024
$1,493,013

Program services were 60.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 22449

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 · 2024

Mission

NEXT CITY, INC. IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION WITH A MISSION TO INSPIRE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN CITIES THROUGH JOURNALISM AND EVENTS AROUND THE WORLD. THE VISION OF THE ORGANIZATION IS FOR A WORLD IN WHICH CITIES ARE NOT IN CRISIS AND ARE, INSTEAD, LEADING THE WAY TOWARDS A MORE SUSTAINABLE, EQUITABLE FUTURE. THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES DAILY ONLINE COVERAGE OF THE LEADERS, POLICIES AND INNOVATIONS DRIVING PROGRESS IN METROPOLITAN REGIONS ACROSS THE WORLD. IN AN AGE WHEN ORIGINAL, ON-THE-GROUND REPORTING IS INCREASINGLY RARE, WE SEND OUR WRITERS INTO URBAN COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD TO PRODUCE OUR AWARD-WINNING LONG-FORM CONTENT. IN ADDITION TO OUR ONLINE JOURNALISM, WE PRODUCE EVENTS INCLUDING AN ANNUAL URBAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE, VANGUARD.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO INSPIRE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN CITIES THROUGH JOURNALISM AND EVENTS AROUND THE WORLD.

  • NEXT CITY, INC. IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION WITH A MISSION TO INSPIRE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN CITIES THROUGH JOURNALISM AND EVENTS AROUND THE WORLD. THE VISION OF THE ORGANIZATION IS FOR A WORLD IN WHICH CITIES ARE NOT IN CRISIS AND ARE, INSTEAD, LEADING THE WAY TOWARDS A MORE SUSTAINABLE, EQUITABLE FUTURE. THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES DAILY ONLINE COVERAGE OF THE LEADERS, POLICIES AND INNOVATIONS DRIVING PROGRESS IN METROPOLITAN REGIONS ACROSS THE WORLD. IN AN AGE WHEN ORIGINAL, ON-THE-GROUND REPORTING IS INCREASINGLY RARE, WE SEND OUR WRITERS INTO URBAN COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD TO PRODUCE OUR AWARD-WINNING LONG-FORM CONTENT. IN ADDITION TO OUR ONLINE JOURNALISM, WE PRODUCE EVENTS INCLUDING AN ANNUAL URBAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE, VANGUARD.

    Expenses $909,134 · Revenue $165,427

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Lucas Grindley

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $129,016
    From this org
    $129,016
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Eric Shaw

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jamie Alderslade

    vice chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Mauricio Andrs Garcia

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Allison S Joe

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Syed Ali

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Lilian Coral

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kate Didech

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Lynnette McRae

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Casius Pealer

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Khanh Russo

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Tamar Shapiro

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Courtney R Snowden

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,794,873
    Expenses
    $1,493,013
    Contributions
    $1,617,667
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,417,686
    Expenses
    $1,187,536
    Contributions
    $1,255,070
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,444,228
    Expenses
    $1,201,845
    Contributions
    $1,236,870
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $1,057,776
    Expenses
    $1,120,478
    Assets (EOY)
    $306,037
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,058,886
    Expenses
    $986,606
    Assets (EOY)
    $362,008
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $859,618
    Expenses
    $1,096,989
    Assets (EOY)
    $287,665
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $741,609
    Expenses
    $1,098,720
    Assets (EOY)
    $500,940
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $768,150
    Expenses
    $1,198,553
    Assets (EOY)
    $876,299
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,670,399
    Expenses
    $1,554,246
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,303,810
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $521,820
    Expenses
    $1,026,324
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,177,534
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,253,662
    Expenses
    $1,438,571
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,692,233
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,331,611
    Expenses
    $1,125,963
    Assets (EOY)
    $952,911
  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $192,623
    Assets (EOY)
    $269,615

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.