- 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.
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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.
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Lucas GrindleyLUCAS GRINDLEY
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $129,016
- From this org
- $129,016
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Eric ShawERIC 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
-
$50,000
2023 GRANT FOR BUSINESS SUPPORT ORGANIZATION
-
$50,000
2022 READER REVENUE INITIATIVE
-
$32,500
2023 CROSSCUTTING STRATEGIES
-
2024 (A) = $30,000
-
$29,215
2022 PROGRAM SUPPORT
-
$27,700
2023 PROGRAM SUPPORT
-
$20,000
2024 INN SUPPORT - LABS
-
$16,020
2025 PROGRAM SUPPORT
-
$8,000
2022 INN DIRECT SUPPORT - 2022 COLUMBIA INTERNSHIP GRANT
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2023 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
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.