| (a) | The following is a copy of the report transmitted to shareholders pursuant to Rule 30e-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (17 CFR 270.30e-1). |
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| Microsoft Corporation |
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| NVIDIA Corporation |
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| Apple, Inc. |
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| Alphabet, Inc., Class A |
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| Mastercard, Inc., Class A |
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| Costco Wholesale Corporation |
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| TJX Companies, Inc. (The) |
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| PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (The) |
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| ServiceNow, Inc. |
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| Microsoft Corporation |
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| Apple, Inc. |
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| Alphabet, Inc., Class A |
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| TJX Companies, Inc. (The) |
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| PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (The) |
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| NVIDIA Corporation |
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| Microsoft Corporation |
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| Alphabet, Inc., Class A |
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| Tesla, Inc. |
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| Alphabet, Inc., Class C |
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| Visa, Inc., Class A |
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| Mastercard, Inc., Class A |
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| Home Depot, Inc. (The) |
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| Procter & Gamble Company (The) |
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| Salesforce, Inc. |
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| NVIDIA Corporation |
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| Alphabet, Inc., Class A |
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| Tesla, Inc. |
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| Alphabet, Inc., Class C |
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| Visa, Inc., Class A |
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| Mastercard, Inc., Class A |
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| Home Depot, Inc. (The) |
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| Procter & Gamble Company (The) |
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| Salesforce, Inc. |
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| ASML Holding NV |
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| Novo Nordisk A/S, Class B |
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| Unilever PLC |
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| Shopify, Inc. |
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| Schneider Electric SE |
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| Sony Group Corporation |
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| Hitachi Ltd. |
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| Toronto-Dominion Bank (The) |
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| RELX PLC |
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| Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. |
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| Novo Nordisk A/S, Class B |
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| Unilever PLC |
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| Shopify, Inc. |
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| Schneider Electric SE |
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| Sony Group Corporation |
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| Hitachi Ltd. |
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| Toronto-Dominion Bank (The) |
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| RELX PLC |
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| Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. |
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| (b) | Not applicable. |
Item 2. Code of Ethics.
Not applicable to semi-annual reports.
Item 3. Audit Committee Financial Expert.
Not applicable to semi-annual reports.
Item 4. Principal Accountant Fees and Services.
Not applicable to semi-annual reports.
Item 5. Audit Committee of Listed Registrants.
Not applicable.
Item 6. Investments.
| (a) | Included as part of the report to shareholders filed under Item 7(a) of this Form N-CSR. |
| (b) | Not applicable. |
Item 7. Financial Statements and Financial Highlights for Open-End Management Investment Companies.
| (a) | Copy of the most recent financial statements: |
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SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT Green Century Balanced Fund Green Century Equity Fund Green Century MSCI International Index Fund January 31, 2025 | |
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For information on the Green Century Funds®, call 1-800-93-GREEN. For information on how to open an account and account services, call 1-800-221-5519 8:00 am to 6:00 pm Eastern Time, Monday through Friday. For daily share price information twenty-four hours a day, visit www.greencentury.com.
Dear Green Century Funds Shareholder:
Thank you for investing in the Green Century Funds. I look forward to writing this letter every year to communicate directly with you about our exciting developments.
The heightened attention on sustainable investing has provided us with another opportunity to explain how we pursue competitive returns while working together for clean air, clean water, clean energy, wildlife, and open spaces.
Green Century° has been helping people save without compromising their values for more than 30 years, and we highlight our accomplishments on our new website www.greencentury.com. These include:
| • | Our investment strategy aims that keeps your money out of the most environmentally dangerous industries |
| • | Our award-winning shareholder advocacy program works with corporations to use less plastic, source more renewable energy, and protect your Right to Repair the products you purchase. |
| • | Our unique non-profit ownership means that our profits don’t go to some Wall Street bank but instead support state and national programs that help protect wildlife, preserve forests, and keep life-saving medicines effective. |
We also put a premium on serving you, our shareholders. An easy way to stay in touch is to join our email list. Just drop us a note at info@greencentury.com with the subject line JOIN or sign up at this quick link.
Through our emails, you will never miss stories such as:
| • | How our advocacy team helps protect the Amazon by stopping deforestation by agribusiness giants and secured another 26 environmental changes from companies around the world. |
| • | The work our nonprofit owners are doing to help protect pollinators and our food supply from Massachusetts to California. |
| • | The Top Ten Highlights of the Year, and details about our 2024 awards from Forbes 50 over 50, Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in Finance, and Investment News. |
It is simple to get these short emails and stay up to date on how together we are making a difference.
A sustainable investment strategy which incorporates environmental, social and governance criteria may result in lower or higher returns than an investment strategy that does not include such criteria.
Thank you for saving for your future with Green Century. Together, we are building a greener future.
Sincerely,
Leslie Samuelrich
President, Green Century Funds
P.S. If you have questions about our Funds or advocacy, please contact us at 1-800-934-7336 in our Boston office.
If you have questions about an existing account, please contact our shareholder services department at 1-800-221-5519.
°Green Century Capital Management, Inc. (Green Century) is the investment advisor to the Green Century Funds (the Funds).
The Green Century Funds are a family of fossil fuel-free, environmentally responsible mutual funds. Green Century Capital Management hosts an award-winning and in-house shareholder advocacy program and is the only mutual fund company in the U.S. wholly owned by environmental and public health nonprofit organizations.
You should carefully consider the Fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses before investing. To obtain a Prospectus that contains this and other information about the Funds please visit www.greencentury.com, email info@greencentury.com, or call 1-800-934-7336. Please read the Prospectus carefully before investing.
Stocks will fluctuate in response to factors that may affect a single company, industry, sector, country, region or the market as a whole and may perform worse than the market. Foreign securities are subject to additional risks such as currency fluctuations, regional economic and political conditions, differences in accounting methods, and other unique risks compared to investing in securities of U.S. issuers. Bonds are subject to a variety of risks including interest rate, credit, and inflation risk. A sustainable investment strategy which incorporates environmental, social and governance criteria may result in lower or higher returns than an investment strategy that does not include such criteria.
This information has been prepared from sources believed reliable. The views expressed are as the date of this writing and are those of the Advisor to the Funds.
The Green Century Funds are distributed by Distribution Services, LLC. 2/25. Distribution Services and Green Century are not affiliated.
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Online Access. Information on your account is available on our website at www.greencentury.com. From the home page, click on Access My Account. Shareholders may also perform online transactions on the site. While there, please consider registering for e-delivery of your statements and other Fund documents.
LinkedIn. Green Century is on LinkedIn. Follow us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/green-century-capital-management/.
The Green Century Funds’ proxy voting guidelines and a record of the Funds’ proxy votes for the year ended June 30, 2024 are available without charge, upon request, (i) at www.greencentury.com, (ii) by calling 1-800-934-7336, (iii) by sending an e-mail to info@greencentury.com, and (iv) on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov.
The Green Century Funds file their complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of the year on Form N-PORT, Part F. The Green Century Funds’ Forms N-PORT, Part F are available on the EDGAR database on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Copies may be obtained upon payment of a duplicating fee, by writing the SEC’s Public Reference Section, Washington DC 20549-0102 or by electronic request at the following e-mail address: publicinfo@sec.gov. The information on Form N-PORT, Part F may also be obtained by calling us at 1-800-934-7336, or by e-mailing a request to info@greencentury.com
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| GREEN CENTURY BALANCED FUND PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS January 31, 2025 (unaudited) |
| COMMON STOCKS — 66.8% |
| |||||||
| SHARES | VALUE | |||||||
| Software & Services — 8.6% |
| |||||||
| Adobe, Inc. (a) |
6,586 | $ | 2,881,046 | |||||
| Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (a) |
8,732 | 2,598,818 | ||||||
| Intuit, Inc. |
4,716 | 2,836,721 | ||||||
| Microsoft Corporation |
41,806 | 17,351,998 | ||||||
| Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (a) |
18,476 | 3,407,344 | ||||||
| ServiceNow, Inc. (a) |
5,144 | 5,238,547 | ||||||
|
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| 34,314,474 | ||||||||
|
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| Capital Goods — 5.7% |
| |||||||
| Eaton Corporation PLC |
10,408 | 3,397,587 | ||||||
| Ferguson Enterprises, Inc. |
15,607 | 2,826,740 | ||||||
| MYR Group, Inc. (a) |
14,633 | 2,071,594 | ||||||
| Rockwell Automation, Inc. |
7,827 | 2,179,272 | ||||||
| Trane Technologies PLC |
9,501 | 3,446,488 | ||||||
| United Rentals, Inc. |
3,116 | 2,362,115 | ||||||
| Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation |
18,706 | 3,889,351 | ||||||
| Xylem, Inc. |
19,149 | 2,375,242 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 22,548,389 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment — 5.5% |
| |||||||
| Analog Devices, Inc. |
11,600 | 2,457,924 | ||||||
| ASML Holding NV (b) |
3,740 | 2,765,020 | ||||||
| NVIDIA Corporation |
123,183 | 14,790,583 | ||||||
| NXP Semiconductors NV (b) |
9,455 | 1,971,840 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 21,985,367 | ||||||||
|
|
|
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| Media & Entertainment — 5.1% |
||||||||
| Alphabet, Inc., Class A |
62,283 | 12,706,978 | ||||||
| Netflix, Inc. (a) |
5,000 | 4,883,800 | ||||||
| Spotify Technology SA (a) |
5,107 | 2,801,445 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 20,392,223 | ||||||||
|
|
|
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| Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences — 4.5% |
| |||||||
| AstraZeneca PLC ADR (b) |
73,287 | 5,185,788 | ||||||
| Gilead Sciences, Inc. |
28,375 | 2,758,050 | ||||||
| IQVIA Holdings, Inc. (a) |
9,197 | 1,851,908 | ||||||
| Merck & Company, Inc. |
27,300 | 2,697,786 | ||||||
| Novo Nordisk A/S ADR (b) |
22,500 | 1,900,125 | ||||||
| Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. |
5,889 | 3,520,150 | ||||||
|
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| 17,913,807 | ||||||||
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| SHARES | VALUE | |||||||
| Banks — 3.8% |
||||||||
| Bank of America Corporation |
100,000 | $ | 4,630,000 | |||||
| East West Bancorp, Inc. |
48,032 | 4,945,855 | ||||||
| PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (The) |
28,515 | 5,730,089 | ||||||
|
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|
|||||||
| 15,305,944 | ||||||||
|
|
|
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| Technology Hardware & Equipment — 3.6% |
| |||||||
| Apple, Inc. |
60,169 | 14,199,884 | ||||||
|
|
|
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| Healthcare Equipment & Services — 3.5% |
| |||||||
| Alcon, Inc. |
35,019 | 3,189,881 | ||||||
| Elevance Health, Inc. |
7,489 | 2,963,397 | ||||||
| Stryker Corporation |
10,759 | 4,209,889 | ||||||
| UnitedHealth Group, Inc. |
6,970 | 3,781,155 | ||||||
|
|
|
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| 14,144,322 | ||||||||
|
|
|
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| Financial Services — 3.5% |
||||||||
| Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. |
17,678 | 2,825,475 | ||||||
| Mastercard, Inc., Class A |
14,830 | 8,237,027 | ||||||
| Visa, Inc., Class A |
8,317 | 2,842,750 | ||||||
|
|
|
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| 13,905,252 | ||||||||
|
|
|
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| Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail — 3.4% |
| |||||||
| Costco Wholesale Corporation |
7,236 | 7,090,412 | ||||||
| Sysco Corporation |
30,845 | 2,249,217 | ||||||
| Target Corporation |
31,755 | 4,379,332 | ||||||
|
|
|
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| 13,718,961 | ||||||||
|
|
|
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| Consumer Discretionary Distribution & Retail — 3.2% |
| |||||||
| Home Depot, Inc. (The) |
9,892 | 4,075,306 | ||||||
| MercadoLibre, Inc. (a)(b) |
1,324 | 2,544,979 | ||||||
| TJX Companies, Inc. (The) |
49,595 | 6,188,960 | ||||||
| Tractor Supply Company |
1,310 | 71,212 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 12,880,457 | ||||||||
|
|
|
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| Consumer Services — 2.6% |
| |||||||
| Booking Holdings, Inc. |
510 | 2,416,156 | ||||||
| Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc. (a) |
20,925 | 2,565,405 | ||||||
| Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (a) |
45,286 | 2,642,438 | ||||||
| Marriott International, Inc., Class A |
9,124 | 2,651,343 | ||||||
|
|
|
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| 10,275,342 | ||||||||
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| GREEN CENTURY BALANCED FUND PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS January 31, 2025 (unaudited) |
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| SHARES | VALUE | |||||||
| Insurance — 2.6% |
| |||||||
| Aflac, Inc. |
28,265 | $ | 3,035,096 | |||||
| Progressive Corporation (The) |
15,121 | 3,726,419 | ||||||
| Travelers Companies, Inc. (The) |
13,908 | 3,409,963 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 10,171,478 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) — 1.7% |
| |||||||
| American Tower Corporation REIT |
17,274 | 3,194,826 | ||||||
| Equinix, Inc. REIT |
2,596 | 2,371,861 | ||||||
| Prologis, Inc. REIT |
10,930 | 1,303,403 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 6,870,090 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Materials — 1.6% |
||||||||
| Avery Dennison Corporation |
11,233 | 2,086,305 | ||||||
| Ball Corporation |
38,581 | 2,148,962 | ||||||
| International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc. |
25,779 | 2,245,093 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 6,480,360 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Household & Personal Products — 1.4% |
| |||||||
| Procter & Gamble Company (The) |
17,374 | 2,883,911 | ||||||
| Unilever PLC ADR (b) |
49,477 | 2,838,990 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 5,722,901 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Consumer Durables & Apparel — 1.4% |
| |||||||
| Deckers Outdoor Corporation (a) |
14,495 | 2,570,833 | ||||||
| Lululemon Athletica, Inc. (a) |
7,160 | 2,965,672 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 5,536,505 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Transportation — 1.3% |
| |||||||
| J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. |
14,910 | 2,552,890 | ||||||
| Union Pacific Corporation |
10,254 | 2,540,839 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 5,093,729 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency — 1.2% |
| |||||||
| First Solar, Inc. (a) |
15,473 | 2,592,037 | ||||||
| Ormat Technologies, Inc. |
35,154 | 2,255,129 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 4,847,166 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Commercial & Professional Services — 0.8% |
| |||||||
| Verisk Analytics, Inc. |
10,870 | 3,124,473 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Real Estate Management & Development — 0.7% |
| |||||||
| Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc. (a) |
9,787 | 2,767,764 | ||||||
|
|
|
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| SHARES | VALUE | |||||||
| Utilities — 0.6% |
||||||||
| American Water Works Company, Inc. |
19,443 | $ | 2,423,376 | |||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Food & Beverage — 0.5% |
||||||||
| McCormick & Company, Inc. |
23,732 | 1,832,822 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Total Common Stocks |
266,455,086 | |||||||
|
|
|
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| PRINCIPAL AMOUNT |
||||||||
| BONDS & NOTES — 32.3% |
| |||||||
| Green and Sustainability Bonds — 24.3% |
| |||||||
| Alphabet, Inc. |
$ | 6,000,000 | 5,002,116 | |||||
| Apple, Inc. |
5,000,000 | 4,851,440 | ||||||
| Asian Development Bank |
4,000,000 | 3,839,020 | ||||||
| AvalonBay Communities, Inc. |
6,000,000 | 4,983,012 | ||||||
| Boston Properties LP |
5,000,000 | 4,869,220 | ||||||
| Bridge Housing Corporation |
4,500,000 | 3,877,938 | ||||||
| Century Housing Corporation |
4,500,000 | 4,505,382 | ||||||
| European Investment Bank |
500,000 | 487,522 | ||||||
| European Investment Bank |
5,000,000 | 4,730,015 | ||||||
| Export Development Canada |
5,000,000 | 5,031,660 | ||||||
| International Bank for Reconstruction & Development |
4,000,000 | 3,911,728 | ||||||
| International Finance Corporation |
2,885,000 | 2,811,877 | ||||||
| Johnson Controls International plc / Tyco Fire & Security Finance SCA |
3,000,000 | 2,526,753 | ||||||
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| GREEN CENTURY BALANCED FUND PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS January 31, 2025 (unaudited) |
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| PRINCIPAL AMOUNT |
VALUE | |||||||
| Green and Sustainability Bonds — (continued) |
| |||||||
| Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau |
$ | 4,000,000 | $ | 3,926,752 | ||||
| Mastercard, Inc. |
5,000,000 | 4,250,910 | ||||||
| Nederlandse Waterschapsbank NV |
3,500,000 | 3,421,201 | ||||||
| New Jersey Infrastructure Bank |
2,500,000 | 2,268,465 | ||||||
| NXP BV / NXP Funding LLC / NXP USA, Inc. |
4,500,000 | 4,392,099 | ||||||
| Prologis LP |
4,500,000 | 3,700,809 | ||||||
| Public Finance Authority |
3,000,000 | 2,998,656 | ||||||
| Salesforce, Inc. |
2,500,000 | 2,255,253 | ||||||
| San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District |
2,000,000 | 1,847,706 | ||||||
| Starbucks Corporation |
4,500,000 | 4,372,879 | ||||||
| United States International Development Finance Corporation |
2,560,697 | 2,183,071 | ||||||
| Verizon Communications, Inc. |
3,000,000 | 2,895,411 | ||||||
| Visa, Inc. |
3,500,000 | 3,199,399 | ||||||
| Xylem, Inc. |
4,500,000 | 3,860,658 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 97,000,952 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Community Development Financial Institutions — 3.5% |
| |||||||
| Capital Impact Partners |
1,500,000 | 1,408,233 | ||||||
| Capital Impact Partners |
3,750,000 | 3,743,696 | ||||||
| PRINCIPAL AMOUNT |
VALUE | |||||||
| Community Development Financial Institutions — (continued) |
| |||||||
| Local Initiatives Support Corporation |
$ | 2,000,000 | $ | 1,920,914 | ||||
| Local Initiatives Support Corporation |
2,000,000 | 1,964,420 | ||||||
| National Community Renaissance of California |
4,000,000 | 3,349,876 | ||||||
| Reinvestment Fund, Inc. (The) |
1,400,000 | 1,374,397 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 13,761,536 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| U.S. Government Agencies — 3.3% |
|
|||||||
| Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation |
4,000,000 | 3,939,676 | ||||||
| Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation |
5,500,000 | 4,743,502 | ||||||
| Federal Home Loan Banks |
5,000,000 | 4,371,735 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 13,054,913 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Capital Goods — 0.8% |
||||||||
| Trane Technologies Financing Ltd. |
3,500,000 | 3,362,814 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Municipal — 0.4% |
||||||||
| Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
1,652,678 | 1,616,385 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Total Bonds & Notes |
128,796,600 | |||||||
|
|
|
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| GREEN CENTURY BALANCED FUND PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS January 31, 2025 (unaudited) |
concluded |
| SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS — 0.6% | ||||||||
| PRINCIPAL AMOUNT |
VALUE | |||||||
| UMB Money Market Fiduciary Account, 0.01% (e) |
$ | 2,564,262 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Total Short-term Investments |
2,564,262 | |||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| TOTAL INVESTMENTS (f) — 99.7% |
| |||||||
| (Cost $272,261,587) |
397,815,948 | |||||||
| Other Assets Less Liabilities — 0.3% |
|
1,303,038 | ||||||
|
|
|
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| NET ASSETS — 100.0% |
$ | 399,118,986 | ||||||
|
|
|
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| PLC | – Public Limited Company |
| ADR | – American Depository Receipt |
| REIT | – Real Estate Investment Trusts |
| LP | – Limited Partnership |
| LLC | – Limited Liability Company |
| (a) | Non-income producing security. |
| (b) | Securities whose value are determined or significantly influenced by trading in markets other than the United States or Canada. |
| (c) | Callable |
| (d) | Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration to qualified institutional buyers. The total value of these securities is $3,421,201. |
| (e) | The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at the period end. |
| (f) | The cost of investments for federal income tax purposes is $272,263,589 resulting in gross unrealized appreciation and depreciation of $134,833,173 and $9,280,814 respectively, or net unrealized appreciation of $125,552,359. |
See Notes to Financial Statements
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| GREEN CENTURY EQUITY FUND PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS January 31, 2025 (unaudited) |
| COMMON STOCKS — 99.9% |
||||||||
| SHARES | VALUE | |||||||
| Software & Services — 19.3% |
||||||||
| Accenture PLC, Class A (a) |
17,005 | $ | 6,546,075 | |||||
| Adobe, Inc. (b) |
11,975 | 5,238,464 | ||||||
| ANSYS, Inc. (b) |
2,473 | 866,786 | ||||||
| Autodesk, Inc. (b) |
5,791 | 1,802,970 | ||||||
| Automatic Data Processing, Inc. |
11,161 | 3,381,895 | ||||||
| Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (b) |
7,425 | 2,209,828 | ||||||
| Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, Class A |
13,875 | 1,146,214 | ||||||
| Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. |
14,708 | 1,198,261 | ||||||
| Fortinet, Inc. (b) |
17,591 | 1,774,580 | ||||||
| Gen Digital, Inc. |
15,913 | 428,219 | ||||||
| International Business Machines Corporation |
24,840 | 6,351,588 | ||||||
| Intuit, Inc. |
7,654 | 4,603,958 | ||||||
| Microsoft Corporation |
190,687 | 79,146,546 | ||||||
| Okta, Inc., Class A (b) |
4,375 | 412,212 | ||||||
| Paycom Software, Inc. |
1,448 | 300,547 | ||||||
| PayPal Holdings, Inc. (b) |
26,495 | 2,346,927 | ||||||
| PTC, Inc. (b) |
3,459 | 669,247 | ||||||
| Salesforce, Inc. |
25,906 | 8,852,080 | ||||||
| ServiceNow, Inc. (b) |
5,597 | 5,699,873 | ||||||
| Teradata Corporation (b) |
2,334 | 74,478 | ||||||
| Western Union Company (The) |
7,023 | 72,477 | ||||||
| Workday, Inc., Class A (b) |
5,884 | 1,541,961 | ||||||
| ZoomInfo Technologies, Inc. (b) |
5,168 | 53,179 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 134,718,365 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment — 15.0% |
| |||||||
| Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (b) |
43,696 | 5,066,551 | ||||||
| Analog Devices, Inc. |
13,232 | 2,803,729 | ||||||
| Applied Materials, Inc. |
22,064 | 3,979,243 | ||||||
| Intel Corporation |
116,831 | 2,270,026 | ||||||
| Lam Research Corporation |
35,179 | 2,851,258 | ||||||
| Microchip Technology, Inc. |
14,608 | 793,214 | ||||||
| NVIDIA Corporation |
664,358 | 79,769,465 | ||||||
| NXP Semiconductors NV (a) |
6,917 | 1,442,540 | ||||||
| ON Semiconductor Corporation (b) |
11,955 | 625,725 | ||||||
| Skyworks Solutions, Inc. |
4,591 | 407,497 | ||||||
| Texas Instruments, Inc. |
24,823 | 4,582,574 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 104,591,822 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Media & Entertainment — 9.8% |
| |||||||
| Alphabet, Inc., Class A |
158,535 | 32,344,311 | ||||||
| Alphabet, Inc., Class C |
136,120 | 27,986,272 | ||||||
| SHARES | VALUE | |||||||
| Media & Entertainment — (continued) |
| |||||||
| Electronic Arts, Inc. |
6,683 | $ | 821,408 | |||||
| John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Class A |
1,195 | 48,911 | ||||||
| New York Times Company (The), Class A |
4,528 | 245,871 | ||||||
| Omnicom Group, Inc. |
5,443 | 472,398 | ||||||
| Scholastic Corporation |
537 | 10,423 | ||||||
| Walt Disney Company (The) |
49,323 | 5,576,458 | ||||||
| Warner Bros Discovery, Inc. (b) |
63,455 | 662,470 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 68,168,522 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Financial Services — 9.5% |
||||||||
| Ally Financial, Inc. |
7,840 | 305,525 | ||||||
| American Express Company |
15,471 | 4,911,269 | ||||||
| Ameriprise Financial, Inc. |
2,630 | 1,429,037 | ||||||
| Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (The) |
20,481 | 1,759,932 | ||||||
| BlackRock, Inc. |
4,060 | 4,366,530 | ||||||
| Charles Schwab Corporation (The) |
43,647 | 3,610,480 | ||||||
| CME Group, Inc. |
9,769 | 2,310,564 | ||||||
| Equitable Holdings, Inc. |
7,976 | 434,054 | ||||||
| FactSet Research Systems, Inc. |
1,018 | 482,949 | ||||||
| Franklin Resources, Inc. |
7,424 | 165,110 | ||||||
| Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. |
15,648 | 2,501,020 | ||||||
| Invesco Ltd. |
8,529 | 164,013 | ||||||
| Mastercard, Inc., Class A |
22,263 | 12,365,538 | ||||||
| Moody’s Corporation |
4,485 | 2,239,988 | ||||||
| Morgan Stanley |
33,179 | 4,592,969 | ||||||
| Nasdaq, Inc. |
11,724 | 965,354 | ||||||
| Northern Trust Corporation |
5,441 | 610,970 | ||||||
| Raymond James Financial, Inc. |
5,342 | 900,020 | ||||||
| S&P Global, Inc. |
8,499 | 4,431,464 | ||||||
| State Street Corporation |
8,035 | 816,517 | ||||||
| Synchrony Financial |
11,126 | 767,471 | ||||||
| T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. |
6,057 | 708,184 | ||||||
| Visa, Inc., Class A |
45,232 | 15,460,298 | ||||||
| Voya Financial, Inc. |
2,477 | 175,842 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 66,475,098 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences — 5.9% |
| |||||||
| AbbVie, Inc. |
47,440 | 8,724,216 | ||||||
| Agilent Technologies, Inc. |
7,990 | 1,210,645 | ||||||
| Amgen, Inc. |
14,632 | 4,176,265 | ||||||
| Biogen, Inc. (b) |
3,886 | 559,312 | ||||||
| BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc. (b) |
5,079 | 321,805 | ||||||
| Bio-Techne Corporation |
4,230 | 311,117 | ||||||
| Bristol-Myers Squibb Company |
55,015 | 3,243,134 | ||||||
| Danaher Corporation |
17,736 | 3,950,517 | ||||||
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| GREEN CENTURY EQUITY FUND PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS January 31, 2025 (unaudited) |
continued |
| SHARES | VALUE | |||||||
| Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences — (continued) |
| |||||||
| Gilead Sciences, Inc. |
33,964 | $ | 3,301,301 | |||||
| Illumina, Inc. (b) |
4,266 | 566,269 | ||||||
| IQVIA Holdings, Inc. (b) |
4,923 | 991,295 | ||||||
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC (a)(b) |
1,421 | 176,730 | ||||||
| Merck & Company, Inc. |
68,605 | 6,779,546 | ||||||
| Mettler-Toledo International, Inc. (b) |
589 | 803,655 | ||||||
| Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (b) |
7,003 | 3,233,145 | ||||||
| Waters Corporation (b) |
1,617 | 671,831 | ||||||
| Zoetis, Inc. |
12,329 | 2,107,026 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 41,127,809 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Capital Goods — 5.4% |
| |||||||
| 3M Company |
14,955 | 2,276,151 | ||||||
| A.O. Smith Corporation |
3,506 | 235,954 | ||||||
| AGCO Corporation |
1,602 | 167,297 | ||||||
| Air Lease Corporation, Class A |
2,574 | 118,919 | ||||||
| Allegion PLC (a) |
2,360 | 313,243 | ||||||
| Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. |
1,079 | 280,572 | ||||||
| Builders FirstSource, Inc. (b) |
3,184 | 532,619 | ||||||
| Carrier Global Corporation |
22,322 | 1,459,412 | ||||||
| CNH Industrial NV (a) |
22,472 | 289,439 | ||||||
| Cummins, Inc. |
3,759 | 1,339,144 | ||||||
| Deere & Company |
7,067 | 3,367,849 | ||||||
| Dover Corporation |
3,631 | 739,562 | ||||||
| Eaton Corporation PLC |
10,803 | 3,526,531 | ||||||
| EMCOR Group, Inc. |
1,267 | 567,692 | ||||||
| Fastenal Company |
15,750 | 1,153,530 | ||||||
| Ferguson Enterprises, Inc. |
5,625 | 1,018,800 | ||||||
| Flowserve Corporation |
3,157 | 197,691 | ||||||
| Fortive Corporation |
9,308 | 757,020 | ||||||
| Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. |
3,216 | 230,491 | ||||||
| Graco, Inc. |
4,541 | 382,216 | ||||||
| Granite Construction, Inc. |
1,230 | 108,412 | ||||||
| Hubbell, Inc. |
1,459 | 617,172 | ||||||
| IDEX Corporation |
1,893 | 424,619 | ||||||
| Illinois Tool Works, Inc. |
8,086 | 2,095,568 | ||||||
| Lennox International, Inc. |
889 | 526,661 | ||||||
| Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. |
1,521 | 302,344 | ||||||
| Masco Corporation |
5,851 | 463,867 | ||||||
| Middleby Corporation (The) (b) |
1,312 | 224,536 | ||||||
| Owens Corning |
2,421 | 446,796 | ||||||
| PACCAR, Inc. |
14,334 | 1,589,354 | ||||||
| SHARES | VALUE | |||||||
| Capital Goods — (continued) |
| |||||||
| Pentair PLC (a) |
4,190 | $ | 434,419 | |||||
| Quanta Services, Inc. |
4,042 | 1,243,360 | ||||||
| Rockwell Automation, Inc. |
3,054 | 850,325 | ||||||
| Roper Technologies, Inc. |
2,985 | 1,718,315 | ||||||
| Sensata Technologies Holding PLC |
3,742 | 101,633 | ||||||
| Snap-on, Inc. |
1,409 | 500,406 | ||||||
| Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. |
4,110 | 361,968 | ||||||
| Tennant Company |
298 | 25,485 | ||||||
| Timken Company (The) |
1,617 | 129,797 | ||||||
| Trane Technologies PLC |
5,665 | 2,054,979 | ||||||
| United Rentals, Inc. |
1,810 | 1,372,089 | ||||||
| W.W. Grainger, Inc. |
1,215 | 1,291,144 | ||||||
| Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation |
4,878 | 1,014,234 | ||||||
| Xylem, Inc. |
6,711 | 832,432 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 37,684,047 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency — 4.9% |
| |||||||
| Acuity Brands, Inc. |
831 | 276,216 | ||||||
| First Solar, Inc. (b) |
2,782 | 466,041 | ||||||
| Itron, Inc. (b) |
1,302 | 139,783 | ||||||
| Johnson Controls International, PLC (a) |
17,789 | 1,387,542 | ||||||
| Ormat Technologies, Inc. |
1,343 | 86,153 | ||||||
| Tesla, Inc. (b) |
77,970 | 31,546,662 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 33,902,397 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Healthcare Equipment & Services — 3.3% |
|
|||||||
| Align Technology, Inc. (b) |
1,976 | 432,961 | ||||||
| Becton, Dickinson & Company |
7,844 | 1,942,174 | ||||||
| Cardinal Health, Inc. |
6,605 | 816,774 | ||||||
| Cencora, Inc. |
4,876 | 1,239,528 | ||||||
| Centene Corporation (b) |
14,466 | 926,258 | ||||||
| Cigna Group (The) |
7,611 | 2,239,232 | ||||||
| Cooper Cos., Inc. (The) (b) |
5,312 | 512,874 | ||||||
| DaVita, Inc. (b) |
1,208 | 212,850 | ||||||
| DENTSPLY SIRONA, Inc. |
5,127 | 101,310 | ||||||
| Dexcom, Inc. (b) |
10,935 | 949,486 | ||||||
| Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (b) |
16,481 | 1,194,049 | ||||||
| Elevance Health, Inc. |
6,345 | 2,510,717 | ||||||
| HCA Healthcare, Inc. |
5,152 | 1,699,696 | ||||||
| Henry Schein, Inc. (b) |
3,231 | 258,480 | ||||||
| Hologic, Inc. (b) |
6,056 | 436,880 | ||||||
| Humana, Inc. |
3,272 | 959,449 | ||||||
| IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (b) |
2,314 | 976,624 | ||||||
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| GREEN CENTURY EQUITY FUND PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS January 31, 2025 (unaudited) |
continued |
| SHARES | VALUE | |||||||
| Healthcare Equipment & Services — (continued) |
| |||||||
| Insulet Corporation (b) |
1,908 | $ | 531,149 | |||||
| Labcorp Holdings, Inc. |
2,185 | 545,813 | ||||||
| Patterson Companies, Inc. |
1,973 | 61,064 | ||||||
| Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc. (b) |
2,069 | 28,925 | ||||||
| Quest Diagnostics, Inc. |
2,942 | 479,840 | ||||||
| ResMed, Inc. |
4,030 | 951,805 | ||||||
| Select Medical Holdings Corporation |
2,866 | 56,374 | ||||||
| STERIS PLC |
2,650 | 584,723 | ||||||
| Teladoc Health, Inc. (b) |
4,457 | 45,283 | ||||||
| Veeva Systems, Inc., Class A (b) |
4,239 | 988,789 | ||||||
| West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. |
1,993 | 680,709 | ||||||
| Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. |
5,355 | 586,265 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 22,950,081 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Consumer Discretionary Distribution & Retail — 3.0% |
| |||||||
| AutoNation, Inc. (b) |
664 | 125,197 | ||||||
| Best Buy Company, Inc. |
5,640 | 484,250 | ||||||
| Buckle, Inc. (The) |
889 | 42,325 | ||||||
| CarMax, Inc. (b) |
4,278 | 366,368 | ||||||
| Foot Locker, Inc. (b) |
2,330 | 46,717 | ||||||
| GameStop Corporation, Class A (b) |
11,551 | 310,722 | ||||||
| Gap, Inc. (The) |
6,246 | 150,341 | ||||||
| Home Depot, Inc. (The) |
26,983 | 11,116,456 | ||||||
| Kohl’s Corporation |
2,823 | 37,292 | ||||||
| LKQ Corporation |
6,472 | 241,988 | ||||||
| Lowe’s Companies, Inc. |
15,128 | 3,933,885 | ||||||
| Nordstrom, Inc. |
2,841 | 68,752 | ||||||
| ODP Corporation (The) (b) |
814 | 18,396 | ||||||
| Pool Corporation |
1,013 | 348,725 | ||||||
| Signet Jewelers Ltd. |
1,194 | 70,721 | ||||||
| Target Corporation |
12,577 | 1,734,494 | ||||||
| Tractor Supply Company |
14,955 | 812,954 | ||||||
| Ulta Beauty, Inc. (b) |
1,331 | 548,572 | ||||||
| Williams-Sonoma, Inc. |
3,453 | 729,861 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 21,188,016 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Food & Beverage — 3.0% |
| |||||||
| Archer-Daniels-Midland Company |
13,608 | 697,138 | ||||||
| Bunge Global SA |
3,809 | 289,979 | ||||||
| Campbell Soup Company (The) |
4,724 | 183,149 | ||||||
| Coca-Cola Company (The) |
110,683 | 7,026,157 | ||||||
| Conagra Brands, Inc. |
11,850 | 306,797 | ||||||
| Darling Ingredients, Inc. (b) |
4,102 | 153,661 | ||||||
| SHARES | VALUE | |||||||
| Food & Beverage — (continued) |
| |||||||
| General Mills, Inc. |
14,829 | $ | 891,816 | |||||
| Hormel Foods Corporation |
7,838 | 234,983 | ||||||
| Ingredion, Inc. |
1,693 | 230,993 | ||||||
| JM Smucker Company (The) |
2,700 | 288,603 | ||||||
| Kellanova |
7,459 | 609,624 | ||||||
| Keurig Dr Pepper, Inc. |
31,365 | 1,006,817 | ||||||
| Kraft Heinz Company (The) |
24,667 | 736,063 | ||||||
| Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. |
3,918 | 234,845 | ||||||
| McCormick & Company, Inc. |
6,635 | 512,421 | ||||||
| Mondelez International, Inc., Class A |
36,579 | 2,121,216 | ||||||
| PepsiCo, Inc. |
37,533 | 5,655,848 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 21,180,110 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) — 3.0% |
| |||||||
| American Tower Corporation REIT |
12,797 | 2,366,805 | ||||||
| Anywhere Real Estate, Inc. (b) |
2,732 | 9,863 | ||||||
| AvalonBay Communities, Inc. REIT |
3,835 | 849,491 | ||||||
| BXP, Inc. REIT |
3,850 | 281,589 | ||||||
| CBRE Group, Inc., Class A (b) |
8,320 | 1,204,237 | ||||||
| COPT Defense Properties REIT |
2,665 | 78,458 | ||||||
| Crown Castle, Inc. REIT |
11,754 | 1,049,397 | ||||||
| Digital Realty Trust, Inc. REIT |
8,971 | 1,469,988 | ||||||
| Equinix, Inc. REIT |
2,593 | 2,369,120 | ||||||
| Equity Residential REIT |
9,228 | 651,774 | ||||||
| Federal Realty Investment Trust REIT |
1,735 | 188,473 | ||||||
| Healthpeak Properties, Inc. |
18,872 | 389,895 | ||||||
| Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. REIT |
18,939 | 316,471 | ||||||
| Iron Mountain, Inc. REIT |
7,869 | 799,254 | ||||||
| Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc. (b) |
1,351 | 382,063 | ||||||
| Macerich Company (The) REIT |
6,763 | 140,535 | ||||||
| Prologis, Inc. REIT |
25,339 | 3,021,676 | ||||||
| SBA Communications Corporation, Class A REIT |
2,809 | 554,946 | ||||||
| Simon Property Group, Inc. REIT |
9,084 | 1,579,344 | ||||||
| UDR, Inc. REIT |
8,127 | 339,221 | ||||||
| Ventas, Inc. REIT |
11,353 | 685,948 | ||||||
| Welltower, Inc. REIT |
16,749 | 2,285,903 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 21,014,451 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Consumer Services — 2.9% |
||||||||
| Aramark |
6,506 | 253,148 | ||||||
| Booking Holdings, Inc. |
909 | 4,306,442 | ||||||
| Choice Hotels International, Inc. |
653 | 96,206 | ||||||
| Darden Restaurants, Inc. |
3,240 | 632,578 | ||||||
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| GREEN CENTURY EQUITY FUND PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS January 31, 2025 (unaudited) |
continued |
| SHARES | VALUE | |||||||
| Consumer Services — (continued) |
| |||||||
| Domino’s Pizza, Inc. |
924 | $ | 414,987 | |||||
| Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc. |
6,727 | 1,722,583 | ||||||
| Jack in the Box, Inc. |
266 | 10,424 | ||||||
| Marriott International, Inc., Class A |
6,588 | 1,914,407 | ||||||
| McDonald’s Corporation |
19,519 | 5,635,135 | ||||||
| Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. |
6,631 | 1,767,825 | ||||||
| Starbucks Corporation |
30,879 | 3,325,051 | ||||||
| Vail Resorts, Inc. |
922 | 156,851 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 20,235,637 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Insurance — 2.7% |
||||||||
| Allstate Corporation (The) |
7,232 | 1,390,931 | ||||||
| Arthur J. Gallagher & Company |
6,718 | 2,027,627 | ||||||
| Chubb Ltd. (a) |
10,467 | 2,845,768 | ||||||
| Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (The) |
8,164 | 910,694 | ||||||
| Lincoln National Corporation |
4,685 | 164,725 | ||||||
| Loews Corporation |
5,003 | 427,506 | ||||||
| Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. |
13,374 | 2,900,553 | ||||||
| Principal Financial Group, Inc. |
6,410 | 528,504 | ||||||
| Progressive Corporation (The) |
15,855 | 3,907,306 | ||||||
| Prudential Financial, Inc. |
9,697 | 1,171,010 | ||||||
| Travelers Companies, Inc. (The) |
6,292 | 1,542,673 | ||||||
| Willis Towers Watson PLC (a) |
2,705 | 891,473 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 18,708,770 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Materials — 2.4% |
| |||||||
| Albemarle Corporation |
3,144 | 264,693 | ||||||
| Amcor PLC (a) |
38,678 | 375,950 | ||||||
| Avery Dennison Corporation |
2,263 | 420,307 | ||||||
| Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. (b) |
5,095 | 183,114 | ||||||
| Ball Corporation |
8,340 | 464,538 | ||||||
| Compass Minerals International, Inc. |
775 | 9,037 | ||||||
| CRH PLC |
18,868 | 1,868,498 | ||||||
| Ecolab, Inc. |
7,168 | 1,793,362 | ||||||
| H.B. Fuller Company |
1,079 | 68,117 | ||||||
| International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc. |
6,938 | 604,231 | ||||||
| Linde PLC (a) |
12,939 | 5,772,347 | ||||||
| Minerals Technologies, Inc. |
887 | 68,024 | ||||||
| Mosaic Company (The) |
8,443 | 235,475 | ||||||
| Newmont Corporation |
31,368 | 1,340,041 | ||||||
| PPG Industries, Inc. |
6,139 | 708,318 | ||||||
| Radius Recycling, Inc. |
721 | 8,659 | ||||||
| SHARES | VALUE | |||||||
| Materials — (continued) |
| |||||||
| Sealed Air Corporation |
3,582 | $ | 124,761 | |||||
| Sherwin-Williams Company (The) |
6,526 | 2,337,352 | ||||||
| Sonoco Products Company |
2,267 | 108,000 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 16,754,824 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Technology Hardware & Equipment — 2.4% |
| |||||||
| Cisco Systems, Inc. |
108,392 | 6,568,555 | ||||||
| Cognex Corporation |
4,685 | 186,932 | ||||||
| Corning, Inc. |
22,413 | 1,167,269 | ||||||
| Dell Technologies, Inc., Class C |
8,705 | 901,838 | ||||||
| F5, Inc. (b) |
1,575 | 468,185 | ||||||
| Flex Ltd. (b) |
11,256 | 468,812 | ||||||
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company |
36,305 | 769,303 | ||||||
| HP, Inc. |
27,037 | 878,703 | ||||||
| Keysight Technologies, Inc. (b) |
4,751 | 847,341 | ||||||
| Motorola Solutions, Inc. |
4,518 | 2,120,071 | ||||||
| TE Connectivity PLC (a) |
8,347 | 1,235,106 | ||||||
| Trimble, Inc. (b) |
6,663 | 499,458 | ||||||
| Xerox Holdings Corporation |
3,436 | 29,343 | ||||||
| Zebra Technologies Corporation, Class A (b) |
1,416 | 554,987 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 16,695,903 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Household & Personal Products — 2.1% |
|
|||||||
| Clorox Company (The) |
3,262 | 517,614 | ||||||
| Colgate-Palmolive Company |
21,289 | 1,845,756 | ||||||
| Estee Lauder Companies, Inc. (The), Class A |
6,306 | 526,110 | ||||||
| Kimberly-Clark Corporation |
9,226 | 1,199,103 | ||||||
| Procter & Gamble Company (The) |
63,497 | 10,539,867 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 14,628,450 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Transportation — 1.4% |
||||||||
| ArcBest Corporation |
692 | 66,162 | ||||||
| Avis Budget Group, Inc. (b) |
493 | 44,222 | ||||||
| C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. |
3,164 | 314,786 | ||||||
| CSX Corporation |
53,561 | 1,760,550 | ||||||
| Delta Air Lines, Inc. |
4,348 | 292,490 | ||||||
| Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. |
3,868 | 439,328 | ||||||
| J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. |
2,250 | 385,245 | ||||||
| Ryder System, Inc. |
1,202 | 191,611 | ||||||
| U-Haul Holding Company |
2,436 | 157,707 | ||||||
| Union Pacific Corporation |
16,582 | 4,108,854 | ||||||
| United Parcel Service, Inc., Class B |
20,075 | 2,293,167 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 10,054,122 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
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| GREEN CENTURY EQUITY FUND PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS January 31, 2025 (unaudited) |
continued |
| SHARES | VALUE | |||||||
| Banks — 1.2% |
||||||||
| Bank of Hawaii Corporation |
927 | $ | 69,071 | |||||
| Cathay General Bancorp |
1,232 | 58,508 | ||||||
| Citizens Financial Group, Inc. |
12,780 | 607,945 | ||||||
| Comerica, Inc. |
3,480 | 234,274 | ||||||
| Huntington Bancshares, Inc. |
40,066 | 689,135 | ||||||
| International Bancshares Corporation |
1,407 | 92,707 | ||||||
| KeyCorp |
25,746 | 462,913 | ||||||
| M&T Bank Corporation |
4,641 | 933,955 | ||||||
| Old National Bancorp |
7,198 | 171,672 | ||||||
| PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (The) |
10,668 | 2,143,734 | ||||||
| Regions Financial Corporation |
24,522 | 604,222 | ||||||
| Truist Financial Corporation |
36,358 | 1,731,368 | ||||||
| Zions Bancorp NA |
3,956 | 228,894 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 8,028,398 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Consumer Durables & Apparel — 0.8% |
|
|||||||
| Capri Holdings Ltd. (a)(b) |
3,074 | 76,174 | ||||||
| Columbia Sportswear Company |
791 | 69,845 | ||||||
| Deckers Outdoor Corporation (b) |
4,217 | 747,927 | ||||||
| Ethan Allen Interiors, Inc. |
161 | 4,994 | ||||||
| Garmin Ltd. (a) |
4,207 | 908,081 | ||||||
| Hanesbrands, Inc. (b) |
9,129 | 74,128 | ||||||
| Hasbro, Inc. |
3,419 | 197,755 | ||||||
| La-Z-Boy, Inc. |
1,152 | 54,374 | ||||||
| Mattel, Inc. (b) |
8,275 | 154,246 | ||||||
| Meritage Homes Corporation |
1,958 | 152,469 | ||||||
| Mohawk Industries, Inc. (b) |
1,488 | 181,982 | ||||||
| Newell Brands, Inc. |
10,704 | 106,612 | ||||||
| NIKE, Inc., Class B |
32,547 | 2,502,864 | ||||||
| PVH Corporation |
1,260 | 112,896 | ||||||
| Topgolf Callaway Brands Corporation (b) |
3,717 | 29,216 | ||||||
| Under Armour, Inc., Class A (b) |
7,885 | 65,840 | ||||||
| Under Armour, Inc., Class C (b) |
276 | 2,078 | ||||||
| VF Corporation |
8,794 | 228,380 | ||||||
| Whirlpool Corporation |
1,452 | 152,475 | ||||||
| Wolverine World Wide, Inc. |
2,136 | 47,697 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 5,870,033 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Telecommunication Services — 0.7% |
| |||||||
| Lumen Technologies Inc. (b) |
26,703 | 131,913 | ||||||
| Verizon Communications, Inc. |
115,025 | 4,530,835 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 4,662,748 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| SHARES | VALUE | |||||||
| Commercial & Professional Services — 0.6% |
| |||||||
| ACCO Brands Corporation |
2,001 | $ | 10,525 | |||||
| ASGN, Inc. (b) |
1,165 | 102,765 | ||||||
| Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. |
3,124 | 744,199 | ||||||
| Copart, Inc. (b) |
23,455 | 1,358,748 | ||||||
| Deluxe Corporation |
1,064 | 24,674 | ||||||
| Exponent, Inc. |
1,449 | 132,830 | ||||||
| Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. |
562 | 26,128 | ||||||
| HNI Corporation |
1,540 | 76,769 | ||||||
| ICF International, Inc. |
500 | 58,355 | ||||||
| Interface, Inc. |
1,599 | 39,591 | ||||||
| Kelly Services, Inc., Class A |
1,229 | 17,304 | ||||||
| ManpowerGroup, Inc. |
1,245 | 74,974 | ||||||
| Robert Half, Inc. |
2,752 | 178,302 | ||||||
| Steelcase, Inc., Class A |
2,858 | 32,810 | ||||||
| Tetra Tech, Inc. |
7,358 | 270,775 | ||||||
| TransUnion |
5,305 | 526,521 | ||||||
| Veralto Corporation |
6,841 | 707,291 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 4,382,561 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail — 0.3% |
| |||||||
| Kroger Co. (The) |
18,882 | 1,163,886 | ||||||
| Sysco Corporation |
13,300 | 969,836 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 2,133,722 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Automobiles & Components — 0.2% |
|
|||||||
| Aptiv PLC (b) |
7,235 | 451,609 | ||||||
| Autoliv, Inc. (a) |
2,063 | 199,410 | ||||||
| BorgWarner, Inc. |
5,871 | 187,285 | ||||||
| Harley-Davidson, Inc. |
3,202 | 86,646 | ||||||
| Rivian Automotive, Inc., Class A (b) |
20,472 | 257,128 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 1,182,078 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Utilities — 0.1% |
||||||||
| American Water Works Company, Inc. |
5,370 | 669,317 | ||||||
| Essential Utilities, Inc. |
6,573 | 233,210 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 902,527 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Healthy Living — 0.0% |
||||||||
| Hain Celestial Group, Inc. (The) (b) |
2,185 | 11,056 | ||||||
| United Natural Foods, Inc. (b) |
1,542 | 45,859 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 56,915 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Total Common Stocks |
697,297,406 | |||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
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| GREEN CENTURY EQUITY FUND PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS January 31, 2025 (unaudited) |
concluded |
| SHARES | VALUE | |||||||
| SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS — 0.2% |
| |||||||
| UMB Money Market Fiduciary Account, 0.01% (c) |
$ | 1,142,635 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Total Short-term Investments |
1,142,635 | |||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| TOTAL INVESTMENTS (d) — 100.1% |
| |||||||
| (Cost $253,428,733) |
698,440,041 | |||||||
| Liabilites Less Other Assets —(0.1)% |
|
(566,969 | ) | |||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| NET ASSETS — 100.0% |
$ | 697,873,072 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| PLC | – Public Limited Company |
| REIT | – Real Estate Investment Trusts |
| (a) | Securities whose value are determined or significantly influenced by trading in markets other than the United States or Canada. |
| (b) | Non-income producing security. |
| (c) | The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at the period end. |
| (d) | The cost of investments for federal income tax purposes is $259,894,001 resulting in gross unrealized appreciation and depreciation of $453,043,797 and $14,497,757 respectively, or net unrealized appreciation of $438,546,040. |
See Notes to Financial Statements
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| GREEN CENTURY MSCI INTERNATIONAL INDEX FUND PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS January 31, 2025 (unaudited) |
| COMMON STOCKS — 99.2% |
| |||||||
| SHARES | VALUE | |||||||
| Japan — 24.6% |
||||||||
| Ajinomoto Company, Inc. |
18,100 | $ | 725,582 | |||||
| ANA Holdings, Inc. |
6,000 | 112,554 | ||||||
| Asahi Kasei Corporation |
48,500 | 329,395 | ||||||
| Bridgestone Corporation |
22,100 | 792,747 | ||||||
| Brother Industries Ltd. |
9,100 | 160,342 | ||||||
| Concordia Financial Group Ltd. |
40,300 | 233,999 | ||||||
| Daikin Industries Ltd. |
10,200 | 1,198,105 | ||||||
| Daiwa Securities Group, Inc. |
51,700 | 374,265 | ||||||
| FANUC Corporation |
36,631 | 1,091,305 | ||||||
| Fuji Electric Company Ltd. |
5,300 | 252,518 | ||||||
| Fujitsu Ltd. |
64,400 | 1,245,481 | ||||||
| Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc. |
9,100 | 231,546 | ||||||
| Hitachi Ltd. |
180,015 | 4,525,656 | ||||||
| Hoya Corporation |
13,501 | 1,812,995 | ||||||
| JFE Holdings, Inc. |
22,700 | 262,513 | ||||||
| Kao Corp. |
18,200 | 721,673 | ||||||
| KDDI Corp. |
59,517 | 1,982,869 | ||||||
| Kubota Corporation |
36,300 | 455,323 | ||||||
| LY Corporation |
110,800 | 323,639 | ||||||
| MatsukiyoCocokara & Company |
12,700 | 187,974 | ||||||
| Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corporation |
52,300 | 267,131 | ||||||
| Mitsubishi Estate Company Ltd. |
42,200 | 613,208 | ||||||
| Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. |
6,500 | 142,541 | ||||||
| NEC Corporation |
9,500 | 942,199 | ||||||
| Nitto Denko Corporation |
27,500 | 487,828 | ||||||
| Nomura Research Institute Ltd. |
14,714 | 497,146 | ||||||
| Omron Corporation |
6,700 | 221,030 | ||||||
| Oriental Land Company Ltd. |
42,200 | 948,407 | ||||||
| Pan Pacific International Holdings Corporation |
14,800 | 412,052 | ||||||
| Rakuten Group, Inc. (a) |
58,300 | 366,075 | ||||||
| Renesas Electronics Corporation (a) |
65,100 | 871,981 | ||||||
| Ricoh Company Ltd. |
20,300 | 232,807 | ||||||
| Secom Company Ltd. |
16,400 | 551,879 | ||||||
| Seiko Epson Corporation |
11,389 | 205,814 | ||||||
| Sekisui House Ltd. |
23,000 | 528,608 | ||||||
| SG Holdings Company Ltd. |
12,000 | 113,093 | ||||||
| Shimadzu Corporation |
9,100 | 263,982 | ||||||
| Shiseido Company Ltd. |
15,600 | 261,977 | ||||||
| SoftBank Corporation |
1,111,970 | 1,430,285 | ||||||
| Sompo Holdings, Inc. |
34,484 | 961,623 | ||||||
| Sony Group Corporation |
242,380 | 5,349,167 | ||||||
| SHARES | VALUE | |||||||
| Japan — (continued) |
||||||||
| Sumitomo Metal Mining Company, Ltd. |
9,600 | $ | 219,226 | |||||
| Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. |
144,773 | 3,567,656 | ||||||
| Sysmex Corporation |
19,500 | 372,750 | ||||||
| T&D Holdings, Inc. |
18,900 | 359,569 | ||||||
| TDK Corporation |
75,300 | 910,174 | ||||||
| TIS, Inc. |
8,400 | 185,735 | ||||||
| Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. |
73,000 | 2,407,786 | ||||||
| Tokyu Corp. |
20,500 | 233,953 | ||||||
| Toray Industries, Inc. |
53,500 | 371,235 | ||||||
| Unicharm Corporation |
43,300 | 338,165 | ||||||
| Yamaha Motor Company Ltd. |
35,800 | 299,489 | ||||||
| Yokogawa Electric Corporation |
9,000 | 197,560 | ||||||
| ZOZO, Inc. |
5,400 | 177,133 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 42,329,745 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Canada — 13.5% |
||||||||
| Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. |
19,481 | 1,810,578 | ||||||
| Bank of Nova Scotia (The) |
47,982 | 2,454,893 | ||||||
| CGI, Inc. |
7,915 | 933,038 | ||||||
| Dollarama, Inc. |
10,910 | 1,032,374 | ||||||
| Element Fleet Management Corporation |
15,708 | 308,562 | ||||||
| FirstService Corporation |
1,569 | 285,333 | ||||||
| Gildan Activewear, Inc. |
5,498 | 283,525 | ||||||
| iA Financial Corporation, Inc. |
3,636 | 335,756 | ||||||
| Metro, Inc. |
8,176 | 510,845 | ||||||
| National Bank of Canada |
13,198 | 1,171,329 | ||||||
| Nutrien Ltd. |
19,187 | 990,241 | ||||||
| Open Text Corporation |
10,292 | 302,797 | ||||||
| RB Global, Inc. |
7,173 | 641,345 | ||||||
| Saputo, Inc. |
9,720 | 161,509 | ||||||
| Shopify, Inc. (a) |
47,048 | 5,490,444 | ||||||
| Sun Life Financial, Inc. |
22,403 | 1,291,864 | ||||||
| TELUS Corporation |
19,268 | 279,462 | ||||||
| Toronto-Dominion Bank (The) |
67,809 | 3,868,202 | ||||||
| West Fraser Timber Company Ltd. |
2,130 | 184,671 | ||||||
| WSP Global, Inc. |
5,065 | 859,489 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 23,196,257 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| United Kingdom — 9.5% |
||||||||
| 3i Group PLC |
37,798 | 1,815,982 | ||||||
| Admiral Group PLC |
10,012 | 334,512 | ||||||
| Associated British Foods PLC |
12,907 | 302,864 | ||||||
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| GREEN CENTURY MSCI INTERNATIONAL INDEX FUND PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS January 31, 2025 (unaudited) |
continued |
| SHARES | VALUE | |||||||
| United Kingdom — (continued) |
||||||||
| Barratt Redrow PLC |
53,291 | $ | 298,529 | |||||
| Berkeley Group Holdings PLC |
3,896 | 186,407 | ||||||
| Croda International PLC |
5,185 | 213,570 | ||||||
| Informa PLC |
51,273 | 547,118 | ||||||
| Intertek Group PLC |
6,257 | 394,629 | ||||||
| Kingfisher PLC |
71,835 | 218,239 | ||||||
| Land Securities Group PLC REIT |
26,932 | 194,234 | ||||||
| Legal & General Group PLC |
229,696 | 685,927 | ||||||
| M&G PLC |
86,930 | 223,948 | ||||||
| Mondi PLC |
16,967 | 264,109 | ||||||
| Pearson PLC |
23,061 | 382,607 | ||||||
| Phoenix Group Holdings PLC |
27,738 | 178,775 | ||||||
| RELX PLC |
72,357 | 3,593,070 | ||||||
| Schroders PLC |
31,470 | 137,434 | ||||||
| Segro PLC REIT |
49,669 | 439,163 | ||||||
| Taylor Wimpey PLC |
137,858 | 204,180 | ||||||
| Unilever PLC |
96,385 | 5,520,763 | ||||||
| Whitbread PLC |
7,077 | 245,482 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 16,381,542 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| France — 9.3% |
||||||||
| AXA SA |
68,290 | 2,590,593 | ||||||
| Cie Generale des Etablissements Michelin SCA |
25,872 | 899,704 | ||||||
| Credit Agricole SA |
41,467 | 624,229 | ||||||
| Danone SA |
25,021 | 1,752,501 | ||||||
| Eurazeo SE |
1,659 | 136,948 | ||||||
| Hermes International SCA |
1,229 | 3,456,574 | ||||||
| Publicis Groupe SA |
8,872 | 943,504 | ||||||
| Rexel SA |
8,542 | 226,128 | ||||||
| Schneider Electric SE |
21,221 | 5,381,883 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 16,012,064 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Switzerland — 9.0% |
||||||||
| ABB Ltd. |
61,376 | 3,341,886 | ||||||
| Banque Cantonale Vaudoise |
1,199 | 120,991 | ||||||
| Coca-Cola HBC AG (a) |
8,391 | 291,294 | ||||||
| DSM-Firmenich AG |
7,249 | 740,006 | ||||||
| Givaudan SA |
358 | 1,567,134 | ||||||
| Julius Baer Group Ltd. |
8,019 | 563,419 | ||||||
| Kuehne + Nagel International AG |
1,865 | 423,766 | ||||||
| Lonza Group AG |
2,803 | 1,777,264 | ||||||
| SGS SA |
5,920 | 575,028 | ||||||
| SIG Group AG (a) |
11,676 | 254,622 | ||||||
| Sonova Holding AG |
1,957 | 682,728 | ||||||
| SHARES | VALUE | |||||||
| Switzerland — (continued) |
||||||||
| Swiss Re AG |
11,708 | $ | 1,787,330 | |||||
| Zurich Insurance Group AG |
5,678 | 3,440,479 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 15,565,947 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Netherlands — 8.1% |
||||||||
| Akzo Nobel NV |
6,595 | 374,563 | ||||||
| ASML Holding NV |
12,634 | 9,345,662 | ||||||
| Koninklijke KPN NV |
151,564 | 548,413 | ||||||
| Prosus NV |
53,036 | 2,025,739 | ||||||
| Wolters Kluwer NV |
9,256 | 1,681,374 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 13,975,751 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Australia — 5.9% |
||||||||
| ASX Ltd. |
7,542 | 295,717 | ||||||
| BlueScope Steel Ltd. |
17,266 | 225,464 | ||||||
| Brambles Ltd. |
54,241 | 662,850 | ||||||
| Cochlear Ltd. |
2,542 | 500,319 | ||||||
| CSL Ltd. |
18,796 | 3,244,981 | ||||||
| Goodman Group |
66,653 | 1,486,368 | ||||||
| GPT Group (The) REIT |
73,380 | 208,315 | ||||||
| Northern Star Resources Ltd. |
44,504 | 471,015 | ||||||
| Orica Ltd. |
19,145 | 207,531 | ||||||
| QBE Insurance Group Ltd. |
58,141 | 750,465 | ||||||
| Suncorp Group Ltd. |
49,530 | 635,022 | ||||||
| Transurban Group |
120,207 | 990,151 | ||||||
| WiseTech Global Ltd. |
7,095 | 537,108 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 10,215,306 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Denmark — 5.0% |
||||||||
| Novo Nordisk A/S, Class B |
78,265 | 6,607,497 | ||||||
| Novonesis (Novozymes) B |
13,646 | 782,367 | ||||||
| Pandora A/S |
3,183 | 608,966 | ||||||
| Vestas Wind Systems A/S (a) |
39,290 | 540,420 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 8,539,250 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Germany — 3.6% |
||||||||
| adidas AG |
6,281 | 1,655,958 | ||||||
| Deutsche Boerse AG |
7,300 | 1,803,280 | ||||||
| GEA Group AG |
6,009 | 317,120 | ||||||
| Henkel AG & Company KGaA |
4,064 | 313,916 | ||||||
| Henkel AG & Company KGaA (b) |
6,534 | 570,844 | ||||||
| LEG Immobilien SE |
2,935 | 241,855 | ||||||
| Merck KGaA |
5,038 | 760,458 | ||||||
| Puma SE |
4,102 | 128,715 | ||||||
| Zalando SE (a)(c) |
8,681 | 323,506 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 6,115,652 | ||||||||
|
|
|
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| GREEN CENTURY MSCI INTERNATIONAL INDEX FUND PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS January 31, 2025 (unaudited) |
continued |
| SHARES | VALUE | |||||||
| Hong Kong — 2.2% |
||||||||
| AIA Group Ltd. |
428,249 | $ | 3,010,653 | |||||
| Hang Seng Bank Ltd. |
29,217 | 366,106 | ||||||
| MTR Corporation Ltd. |
61,167 | 191,754 | ||||||
| Sino Land Company Ltd. |
155,793 | 149,411 | ||||||
| Swire Pacific Ltd. A Shares |
15,500 | 134,613 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 3,852,537 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Finland — 1.6% |
||||||||
| Elisa Oyj |
5,605 | 241,527 | ||||||
| Kesko Oyj B Shares |
10,544 | 202,238 | ||||||
| Kone Oyj, Class B |
13,182 | 682,277 | ||||||
| Metso OYJ |
24,211 | 240,299 | ||||||
| Sampo Oyj A Shares |
19,102 | 788,494 | ||||||
| Stora Enso Oyj R Shares |
22,819 | 252,713 | ||||||
| Wartsila OYJ Abp |
19,454 | 367,471 | ||||||
|
|
|
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| 2,775,019 | ||||||||
|
|
|
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| Italy — 1.6% |
||||||||
| FinecoBank Banca Fineco SpA |
23,760 | 451,063 | ||||||
| Generali |
36,560 | 1,157,556 | ||||||
| Mediobanca Banca di Credito Finanziario SpA |
19,321 | 315,830 | ||||||
| Moncler SpA |
9,114 | 576,912 | ||||||
| Poste Italiane SpA (c) |
17,649 | 267,820 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 2,769,181 | ||||||||
|
|
|
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| Sweden — 1.4% |
||||||||
| Boliden AB |
10,641 | 319,606 | ||||||
| Essity AB, Class B |
23,577 | 597,106 | ||||||
| Svenska Cellulosa AB SCA, Class B |
23,787 | 327,602 | ||||||
| Svenska Handelsbanken AB A Shares |
56,597 | 626,171 | ||||||
| Tele2 AB B Shares |
20,933 | 232,876 | ||||||
| Telia Company AB |
92,925 | 273,467 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 2,376,828 | ||||||||
|
|
|
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| Spain — 1.1% |
||||||||
| Amadeus IT Group SA |
17,480 | 1,279,075 | ||||||
| Cellnex Telecom SA (c) |
20,641 | 691,296 | ||||||
|
|
|
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| 1,970,371 | ||||||||
|
|
|
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| Norway — 1.0% |
||||||||
| DNB Bank ASA |
34,869 | 740,641 | ||||||
| Gjensidige Forsikring ASA |
7,668 | 157,307 | ||||||
| Mowi ASA |
18,109 | 363,662 | ||||||
| SHARES | VALUE | |||||||
| Norway — (continued) |
| |||||||
| Orkla ASA |
26,811 | $ | 248,968 | |||||
| Telenor ASA |
23,667 | 289,389 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 1,799,967 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Ireland — 0.7% |
||||||||
| James Hardie Industries PLC (a) |
16,687 | 560,866 | ||||||
| Kerry Group PLC, Class A |
5,958 | 611,804 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 1,172,670 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Belgium — 0.6% |
||||||||
| Ageas SA |
6,214 | 320,088 | ||||||
| KBC Group NV |
8,889 | 681,819 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 1,001,907 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Singapore — 0.4% |
||||||||
| CapitaLand Ascendas REIT |
143,700 | 272,438 | ||||||
| CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust REIT |
226,200 | 322,888 | ||||||
| CapitaLand Investment Ltd. |
89,111 | 160,426 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| 755,752 | ||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| New Zealand — 0.1% |
||||||||
| Meridian Energy Ltd. |
49,672 | 165,331 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Total Common Stocks |
170,971,077 | |||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS — 0.0% |
|
|||||||
| UMB Money Market Fiduciary Account, 0.01% (d) |
14,641 | |||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| Total Short-term Investments |
14,641 | |||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| TOTAL INVESTMENTS (e) — 99.2% |
| |||||||
| (Cost $135,732,872) |
170,985,718 | |||||||
| Other Assets Less Liabilities — 0.8% |
|
1,447,957 | ||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
| NET ASSETS — 100.0% |
$ | 172,433,675 | ||||||
|
|
|
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| PLC | – Public Limited Company |
| REIT | – Real Estate Investment Trusts |
| (a) | Non-income producing security. |
| (b) | Preference shares. |
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| GREEN CENTURY MSCI INTERNATIONAL INDEX FUND PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS January 31, 2025 (unaudited) |
concluded |
| (c) | Security exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration to qualified institutional buyers. The total value of these securities is $1,282,622. |
| (d) | The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at the period end. |
| (e) | The cost of investments for federal income tax purposes is $140,585,275 resulting in gross unrealized appreciation and depreciation of $42,279,629 and $11,879,186 respectively, or net unrealized appreciation of $30,400,443. |
FORWARD FOREIGN CURRENCY EXCHANGE CONTRACTS
| Purchase Contracts |
Counterparty | Currency Exchange |
Settlement Date |
Currency Amount Purchased |
Value At Settlement Date |
Value At January 31, 2025 |
Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) |
|||||||||||||||||||
| Australian Dollar | JP Morgan | AUD per USD | 3/19/2025 | 110,000 | $ | 70,318 | $ | 68,402 | $ | (1,916 | ) | |||||||||||||||
| British Pound | Bank of Montreal | GBP per USD | 3/19/2025 | 60,000 | 76,071 | 74,382 | (1,689 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Canadian Dollar | Bank of Montreal | CAD per USD | 3/19/2025 | 280,000 | 197,940 | 193,039 | (4,901 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Euro | Bank of Montreal | EUR per USD | 3/19/2025 | 90,000 | 94,775 | 93,572 | (1,203 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Japanese Yen | Toronto Dominion | JPY per USD | 3/19/2025 | 47,290,000 | 313,022 | 306,524 | (6,498 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
| $ | 752,126 | $ | 735,919 | $ | (16,207 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
| Sale Contracts |
Counterparty | Currency Exchange |
Settlement Date |
Currency Amount Sold |
Value At Settlement Date |
Value At January 31, 2025 |
Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) |
|||||||||||||||||||
| Canadian Dollar | TD Securities | CAD per USD | 3/19/2025 | (95,000 | ) | $ | (66,084 | ) | $ | (65,495 | ) | $ | 589 | |||||||||||||
| Switzerland Franc | Citibank | CHF per USD | 3/19/2025 | (230,000 | ) | (261,228 | ) | (253,861 | ) | 7,367 | ||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
| $ | (327,312 | ) | $ | (319,356 | ) | $ | 7,956 | |||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
| TOTAL FORWARD FOREIGN CURRENCY EXCHANGE CONTRACTS |
|
$ | 424,814 | $ | 416,563 | $ | (8,251 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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| AUD | – Australian Dollar |
| CAD | – Canadian Dollar |
| CHF | – Switzerland Franc |
| EUR | – Euro |
| GBP | – British Pound |
| JPY | – Japanese Yen |
See Notes to Financial Statements
17
GREEN CENTURY FUNDS STATEMENTS OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
January 31, 2025
(unaudited)
| BALANCED FUND | EQUITY FUND | MSCI INTERNATIONAL INDEX FUND |
||||||||||
| ASSETS: |
||||||||||||
| Investments, at value (cost $272,261,587, $253,428,733 and $135,732,872, respectively) |
$ | 397,815,948 | $ | 698,440,041 | $ | 170,985,718 | ||||||
| Foreign cash, at value (cost $0, $0 and $477,048, respectively) |
— | — | 476,095 | |||||||||
| Receivables for: | ||||||||||||
| Securities sold |
— | — | 330,936 | |||||||||
| Capital stock sold |
972,501 | 171,930 | 139,960 | |||||||||
| Interest |
980,084 | 5 | 1 | |||||||||
| Dividends |
146,417 | 532,796 | 843,660 | |||||||||
| Unrealized appreciation on forward foreign currency exchange contracts |
— | — | 7,956 | |||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
| Total assets |
399,914,950 | 699,144,772 | 172,784,326 | |||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
| LIABILITIES: |
||||||||||||
| Payable for capital stock repurchased |
335,196 | 637,691 | 179,710 | |||||||||
| Accrued expenses |
460,768 | 634,009 | 154,734 | |||||||||
| Unrealized depreciation on forward foreign currency exchange contracts |
— | — | 16,207 | |||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
| Total liabilities |
795,964 | 1,271,700 | 350,651 | |||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
| NET ASSETS |
$ | 399,118,986 | $ | 697,873,072 | $ | 172,433,675 | ||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
| NET ASSETS CONSIST OF: |
||||||||||||
| Paid-in capital (par value of $0.01 per share with unlimited number of shares authorized) |
$ | 274,740,975 | $ | 253,354,076 | $ | 141,605,420 | ||||||
| Net distributable earnings |
124,378,011 | 444,518,996 | 30,828,255 | |||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
| NET ASSETS |
$ | 399,118,986 | $ | 697,873,072 | $ | 172,433,675 | ||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
| NET ASSET VALUE PER SHARE PER CLASS: |
||||||||||||
| Individual Investor Class Shares: | ||||||||||||
| Net assets applicable to shares outstanding |
$ | 271,312,166 | $ | 388,988,154 | $ | 50,802,824 | ||||||
| Shares of beneficial interest issued and outstanding |
7,834,576 | 4,237,277 | 3,567,098 | |||||||||
| Net asset value per share |
$ | 34.63 | $ | 91.80 | $ | 14.24 | ||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
| Institutional Class Shares: | ||||||||||||
| Net assets applicable to shares outstanding |
$ | 127,806,820 | $ | 308,884,918 | $ | 121,630,851 | ||||||
| Shares of beneficial interest issued and outstanding |
3,677,020 | 3,383,440 | 8,576,668 | |||||||||
| Net asset value per share |
$ | 34.76 | $ | 91.29 | $ | 14.18 | ||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
See Notes to Financial Statements
18
GREEN CENTURY FUNDS STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
For the six months ended January 31, 2025
(unaudited)
| BALANCED FUND | EQUITY FUND | MSCI INTERNATIONAL INDEX FUND |
||||||||||
| INVESTMENT INCOME: |
||||||||||||
| Interest income |
$ | 2,544,740 | $ | 53 | $ | 9 | ||||||
| Dividend and other income (net of $5,542, $2,155 and $128,412 foreign withholding taxes, respectively) |
1,421,450 | 4,491,272 | 1,336,476 | |||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
| Total investment income |
3,966,190 | 4,491,325 | 1,336,485 | |||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
| EXPENSES: |
||||||||||||
| Administrative services fee |
1,512,403 | 2,977,780 | 735,086 | |||||||||
| Investment advisory fee |
1,295,538 | 731,827 | 260,427 | |||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
| Total expenses |
2,807,941 | 3,709,607 | 995,513 | |||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
| NET INVESTMENT INCOME |
1,158,249 | 781,718 | 340,972 | |||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
| NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS): |
||||||||||||
| Net realized gain (loss) on: | ||||||||||||
| Investments |
5,164,877 | 12,088,589 | 955,437 | |||||||||
| Foreign currency transactions |
— | — | (9,131 | ) | ||||||||
| Forward foreign currency exchange contracts |
— | — | (22 | ) | ||||||||
| Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: | ||||||||||||
| Investments |
1,118,222 | 34,377,872 | (1,853,824 | ) | ||||||||
| Foreign currency translations |
— | — | (32,766 | ) | ||||||||
| Forward foreign currency exchange contracts |
— | — | (20,503 | ) | ||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
| NET REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS) ON INVESTMENTS |
6,283,099 | 46,466,461 | (960,809 | ) | ||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
| NET INCREASE (DECREASE) IN NET ASSETS RESULTING FROM OPERATIONS |
$ | 7,441,348 | $ | 47,248,179 | $ | (619,837 | ) | |||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
See Notes to Financial Statements
19
GREEN CENTURY FUNDS STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS
| BALANCED FUND | EQUITY FUND | MSCI INTERNATIONAL INDEX FUND | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JANUARY 31, 2025 (UNAUDITED) |
FOR THE YEAR ENDED JULY 31, 2024 |
FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JANUARY 31, 2025 (UNAUDITED) |
FOR THE YEAR ENDED JULY 31, 2024 |
FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JANUARY 31, 2025 (UNAUDITED) |
FOR THE YEAR ENDED JULY 31, 2024 |
|||||||||||||||||||
| INCREASE (DECREASE) IN NET ASSETS: |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| From operations: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net investment income |
$ | 1,158,249 | $ | 2,319,344 | $ | 781,718 | $ | 1,771,017 | $ | 340,972 | $ | 2,632,753 | ||||||||||||
| Net realized gain on investments, foreign currency transactions, and forward foreign currency exchange contracts |
5,164,877 | 18,057,161 | 12,088,589 | 1,791,902 | 946,284 | 4,361,978 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Change in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments, foreign currency translations, and forward foreign currency exchange contracts |
1,118,222 | 23,038,445 | 34,377,872 | 109,762,461 | (1,907,093 | ) | 14,915,925 | |||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
| Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations |
7,441,348 | 43,414,950 | 47,248,179 | 113,325,380 | (619,837 | ) | 21,910,656 | |||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
| Dividends and distributions to shareholders: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distributions |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Individual Investor Class |
(17,337,311 | ) | (8,227,012 | ) | (3,793,802 | ) | (549,959 | ) | (283,071 | ) | (639,922 | ) | ||||||||||||
| Institutional Class |
(8,234,449 | ) | (3,609,310 | ) | (3,417,264 | ) | (1,138,050 | ) | (838,229 | ) | (2,048,738 | ) | ||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
| Total dividends and distributions |
(25,571,760 | ) | (11,836,322 | ) | (7,211,066 | ) | (1,688,009 | ) | (1,121,300 | ) | (2,688,660 | ) | ||||||||||||
| Capital share transactions: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Proceeds from sales of shares |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Individual Investor Class |
8,922,261 | 17,299,282 | 17,083,619 | 34,307,961 | 4,371,096 | 8,440,202 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Institutional Class |
10,610,553 | 22,294,622 | 18,342,633 | 41,817,824 | 6,055,481 | 20,418,761 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Reinvestment of dividends and distributions |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Individual Investor Class |
16,789,101 | 7,973,126 | 3,691,116 | 534,875 | 279,565 | 632,980 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Institutional Class |
8,101,685 | 3,548,005 | 3,041,299 | 1,013,383 | 835,966 | 2,046,659 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Payments for shares redeemed |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Individual Investor Class1 |
(22,757,741 | ) | (46,487,264 | ) | (25,962,679 | ) | (40,518,479 | ) | (12,135,570 | ) | (7,807,554 | ) | ||||||||||||
| Institutional Class2 |
(9,390,450 | ) | (25,821,729 | ) | (23,154,431 | ) | (41,886,673 | ) | (16,876,615 | ) | (39,097,119 | ) | ||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
| Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from capital share transactions |
12,275,409 | (21,193,958 | ) | (6,958,443 | ) | (4,731,109 | ) | (17,470,077 | ) | (15,366,071 | ) | |||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
| Total increase (decrease) in net assets |
(5,855,003 | ) | 10,384,670 | 33,078,670 | 106,906,262 | (19,211,214 | ) | 3,855,925 | ||||||||||||||||
| NET ASSETS: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Beginning of period |
404,973,989 | 394,589,319 | 664,794,402 | 557,888,140 | 191,644,889 | 187,788,964 | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
| End of period |
$ | 399,118,986 | $ | 404,973,989 | $ | 697,873,072 | $ | 664,794,402 | $ | 172,433,675 | $ | 191,644,889 | ||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
| 1 | Net of redemption fee received of $357, $3,419, $2,504, $13,514, $3,452 and $3,388, respectively. |
| 2 | Net of redemption fee received of $2,606, $843, $6,442, $562, $2,762 and $26,591, respectively. |
See Notes to Financial Statements
20
GREEN CENTURY BALANCED FUND INDIVIDUAL INVESTOR CLASS FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
| FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JANUARY 31, 2025 |
FOR THE YEARS ENDED JULY 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (UNAUDITED) | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net Asset Value, beginning of period |
$ | 36.32 | $ | 33.46 | $ | 32.93 | $ | 37.21 | $ | 30.83 | $ | 29.05 | ||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
| Income (loss) from investment operations: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net investment income (loss) |
0.09 | 0.17 | 0.11 | (0.01 | ) | 0.02 | 0.11 | |||||||||||||||||
| Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments |
0.54 | 3.72 | 1.05 | (2.78 | ) | 7.51 | 2.25 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Total increase (decrease) from investment operations |
0.63 | 3.89 | 1.16 | (2.79 | ) | 7.53 | 2.36 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Less dividends: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dividends from net investment income |
(0.10 | ) | (0.18 | ) | (0.09 | ) | — | (0.02 | ) | (0.11 | ) | |||||||||||||
| Distributions from net realized gains |
(2.22 | ) | (0.85 | ) | (0.54 | ) | (1.49 | ) | (1.13 | ) | (0.47 | ) | ||||||||||||
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| Total decrease from dividends |
(2.32 | ) | (1.03 | ) | (0.63 | ) | (1.49 | ) | (1.15 | ) | (0.58 | ) | ||||||||||||
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| Net Asset Value, end of period |
$ | 34.63 | $ | 36.32 | $ | 33.46 | $ | 32.93 | $ | 37.21 | $ | 30.83 | ||||||||||||
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| Total return |
1.80 | %(a) | 11.89 | % | 3.67 | % | (7.97 | )% | 24.86 | % | 8.19 | % | ||||||||||||
| Ratios/Supplemental data: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net assets, end of period (in 000’s) |
$ | 271,312 | $ | 280,643 | $ | 279,640 | $ | 296,605 | $ | 323,991 | $ | 309,871 | ||||||||||||
| Ratio of expenses to average net assets |
1.46 | %(b) | 1.46 | % | 1.46 | % | 1.46 | % | 1.46 | % | 1.47 | % | ||||||||||||
| Ratio of net investment income to average net assets |
0.47 | %(b) | 0.52 | % | 0.35 | % | (0.03 | )% | 0.07 | % | 0.37 | % | ||||||||||||
| Portfolio turnover(c) |
14 | %(a) | 13 | % | 21 | % | 9 | % | 17 | % | 25 | % | ||||||||||||
| (a) | Not annualized. |
| (b) | Annualized. |
| (c) | Calculated at Fund level. |
GREEN CENTURY BALANCED FUND INSTITUTIONAL CLASS FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
| FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JANUARY 31, 2025 |
FOR THE YEARS ENDED JULY 31, |
FOR THE PERIOD NOVEMBER 30, 2020 (COMMENCEMENT OF OPERATIONS) TO JULY 31, |
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| (UNAUDITED) | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||
| Net Asset Value, beginning of period |
$ | 36.44 | $ | 33.56 | $ | 33.06 | $ | 37.27 | $ | 33.58 | ||||||||||
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| Net investment income |
0.13 | 0.29 | 0.20 | 0.08 | 0.08 | |||||||||||||||
| Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments |
0.55 | 3.72 | 1.07 | (2.78 | ) | 4.78 | ||||||||||||||
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| Total increase (decrease) from investment operations |
0.68 | 4.01 | 1.27 | (2.70 | ) | 4.86 | ||||||||||||||
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| Dividends from net investment income |
(0.14 | ) | (0.28 | ) | (0.23 | ) | (0.02 | ) | (0.04 | ) | ||||||||||
| Distributions from net realized gains |
(2.22 | ) | (0.85 | ) | (0.54 | ) | (1.49 | ) | (1.13 | ) | ||||||||||
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| Total decrease from dividends |
(2.36 | ) | (1.13 | ) | (0.77 | ) | (1.51 | ) | (1.17 | ) | ||||||||||
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| Net Asset Value, end of period |
$ | 34.76 | $ | 36.44 | $ | 33.56 | $ | 33.06 | $ | 37.27 | ||||||||||
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| Total return |
1.95 | %(a) | 12.21 | % | 4.01 | % | (7.72 | )% | 14.89 | %(a) | ||||||||||
| Ratios/Supplemental data: | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Net assets, end of period (in 000’s) |
$ | 127,807 | $ | 124,331 | $ | 114,950 | $ | 101,317 | $ | 86,347 | ||||||||||
| Ratio of expenses to average net assets |
1.16 | %(b) | 1.16 | % | 1.16 | % | 1.16 | % | 1.16 | %(b) | ||||||||||
| Ratio of net investment income to average net assets |
0.77 | %(b) | 0.82 | % | 0.65 | % | 0.27 | % | 0.33 | %(b) | ||||||||||
| Portfolio turnover(c) |
14 | %(a) | 13 | % | 21 | % | 9 | % | 17 | %(a) | ||||||||||
| (a) | Not annualized. |
| (b) | Annualized. |
| (c) | Calculated at Fund level. |
See Notes to Financial Statements
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GREEN CENTURY EQUITY FUND INDIVIDUAL INVESTOR CLASS FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
| FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JANUARY 31, 2025 |
FOR THE YEARS ENDED JULY 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (UNAUDITED) | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net Asset Value, beginning of period |
$ | 86.57 | $ | 72.03 | $ | 64.46 | $ | 71.35 | $ | 52.23 | $ | 46.17 | ||||||||||||
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| Net investment income |
0.05 | 0.14 | 0.23 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.25 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments |
6.08 | 14.53 | 7.68 | (6.11 | ) | 19.60 | 6.16 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Total increase (decrease) from investment operations |
6.13 | 14.67 | 7.91 | (6.02 | ) | 19.69 | 6.41 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Dividends from net investment income |
(0.04 | ) | (0.13 | ) | (0.18 | ) | (0.02 | ) | (0.06 | ) | (0.22 | ) | ||||||||||||
| Distributions from net realized gains |
(0.86 | ) | — | (0.16 | ) | (0.85 | ) | (0.51 | ) | (0.13 | ) | |||||||||||||
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| Total decrease from dividends |
(0.90 | ) | (0.13 | ) | (0.34 | ) | (0.87 | ) | (0.57 | ) | (0.35 | ) | ||||||||||||
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| Net Asset Value, end of period |
$ | 91.80 | $ | 86.57 | $ | 72.03 | $ | 64.46 | $ | 71.35 | $ | 52.23 | ||||||||||||
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| Total return |
7.09 | %(a) | 20.37 | % | 12.37 | % | (8.64 | )% | 37.90 | % | 13.95 | % | ||||||||||||
| Ratios/Supplemental data: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net assets, end of period (in 000’s) |
$ | 388,988 | $ | 371,751 | $ | 314,349 | $ | 301,668 | $ | 338,094 | $ | 265,946 | ||||||||||||
| Ratio of expenses to average net assets |
1.20 | %(b) | 1.23 | %(c) | 1.25 | % | 1.25 | % | 1.25 | % | 1.25 | % | ||||||||||||
| Ratio of net investment income to average net assets |
0.09 | %(b) | 0.17 | % | 0.35 | % | 0.11 | % | 0.14 | % | 0.52 | % | ||||||||||||
| Portfolio turnover(d) |
3 | %(a) | 5 | % | 4 | % | 5 | % | 9 | % | 10 | % | ||||||||||||
| (a) | Not annualized. |
| (b) | Annualized. |
| (c) | Effective March 1, 2024, the Adviser has contractually agreed to lower the total annual operating expenses to 1.20%. Prior to March 1, 2024, the Adviser had contractually agreed to annual operating expenses of 1.25%. |
| (d) | Calculated at Fund level. |
GREEN CENTURY EQUITY FUND INSTITUTIONAL CLASS FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
| FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JANUARY 31, 2025 |
FOR THE YEARS ENDED JULY 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (UNAUDITED) | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net Asset Value, beginning of period |
$ | 86.07 | $ | 71.59 | $ | 64.13 | $ | 71.12 | $ | 52.10 | $ | 46.11 | ||||||||||||
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| Income from investment operations: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net investment income |
0.18 | 0.36 | 0.42 | 0.31 | 0.30 | 0.39 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments |
6.05 | 14.46 | 7.65 | (6.13 | ) | 19.54 | 6.16 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Total increase (decrease) from investment operations |
6.23 | 14.82 | 8.07 | (5.82 | ) | 19.84 | 6.55 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Dividends from net investment income |
(0.15 | ) | (0.34 | ) | (0.45 | ) | (0.32 | ) | (0.31 | ) | (0.43 | ) | ||||||||||||
| Distributions from net realized gains |
(0.86 | ) | — | (0.16 | ) | (0.85 | ) | (0.51 | ) | (0.13 | ) | |||||||||||||
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| Total decrease from dividends |
(1.01 | ) | (0.34 | ) | (0.61 | ) | (1.17 | ) | (0.82 | ) | (0.56 | ) | ||||||||||||
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| Net Asset Value, end of period |
$ | 91.29 | $ | 86.07 | $ | 71.59 | $ | 64.13 | $ | 71.12 | $ | 52.10 | ||||||||||||
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| Total return |
7.25 | %(a) | 20.72 | % | 12.72 | % | (8.38 | )% | 38.33 | % | 14.28 | % | ||||||||||||
| Ratios/Supplemental data: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net assets, end of period (in 000’s) |
$ | 308,885 | $ | 293,044 | $ | 243,539 | $ | 213,705 | $ | 178,038 | $ | 94,039 | ||||||||||||
| Ratio of expenses to average net assets |
0.90 | %(b) | 0.93 | %(c) | 0.95 | % | 0.95 | % | 0.95 | % | 0.95 | % | ||||||||||||
| Ratio of net investment income to average net assets |
0.39 | %(b) | 0.47 | % | 0.65 | % | 0.41 | % | 0.44 | % | 0.82 | % | ||||||||||||
| Portfolio turnover(d) |
3 | %(a) | 5 | % | 4 | % | 5 | % | 9 | % | 10 | % | ||||||||||||
| (a) | Not annualized. |
| (b) | Annualized. |
| (c) | Effective March 1, 2024, the Adviser has contractually agreed to lower the total annual operating expenses to 0.90%. Prior to March 1, 2024, the Adviser had contractually agreed to annual operating expenses of 0.95%. |
| (d) | Calculated at Fund level. |
See Notes to Financial Statements
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GREEN CENTURY MSCI INTERNATIONAL INDEX FUND INDIVIDUAL INVESTOR CLASS FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
| FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JANUARY 31, 2025 |
FOR THE YEARS ENDED JULY 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (UNAUDITED) | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net Asset Value, beginning of period |
$ | 14.36 | $ | 13.07 | $ | 11.82 | $ | 14.94 | $ | 11.68 | $ | 11.07 | ||||||||||||
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| Net investment income |
0.02 | 0.15 | 0.16 | 0.19 | 0.09 | 0.10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments |
(0.06 | ) | 1.30 | 1.23 | (2.87 | ) | 3.27 | 0.59 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Total increase (decrease) from investment operations |
(0.04 | ) | 1.45 | 1.39 | (2.68 | ) | 3.36 | 0.69 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Dividends from net investment income |
(0.08 | ) | (0.16 | ) | (0.14 | ) | (0.18 | ) | (0.10 | ) | (0.08 | ) | ||||||||||||
| Distributions from net realized gains |
— | — | — | (0.26 | ) | — | — | |||||||||||||||||
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| Total decrease from dividends |
(0.08 | ) | (0.16 | ) | (0.14 | ) | (0.44 | ) | (0.10 | ) | (0.08 | ) | ||||||||||||
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| Net Asset Value, end of period |
$ | 14.24 | $ | 14.36 | $ | 13.07 | $ | 11.82 | $ | 14.94 | $ | 11.68 | ||||||||||||
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| Total return |
(0.28 | )%(a) | 11.11 | % | 11.83 | % | (18.36 | )% | 28.76 | % | 6.28 | % | ||||||||||||
| Ratios/Supplemental data: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net assets, end of period (in 000’s) |
$ | 50,803 | $ | 58,855 | $ | 52,275 | $ | 47,435 | $ | 46,508 | $ | 29,073 | ||||||||||||
| Ratio of expenses to average net assets |
1.28 | %(b) | 1.28 | % | 1.28 | % | 1.28 | % | 1.28 | % | 1.28 | % | ||||||||||||
| Ratio of net investment income to average net assets |
0.16 | %(b) | 1.15 | % | 1.34 | % | 1.55 | % | 0.77 | % | 0.98 | % | ||||||||||||
| Portfolio turnover(c) |
3 | %(a) | 29 | % | 42 | % | 29 | % | 31 | % | 20 | % | ||||||||||||
| (a) | Not annualized. |
| (b) | Annualized. |
| (c) | Calculated at Fund level. |
GREEN CENTURY MSCI INTERNATIONAL INDEX FUND INSTITUTIONAL CLASS FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
| FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JANUARY 31, 2025 |
FOR THE YEARS ENDED JULY 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (UNAUDITED) | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net Asset Value, beginning of period |
$ | 14.30 | $ | 13.01 | $ | 11.78 | $ | 14.90 | $ | 11.66 | $ | 11.07 | ||||||||||||
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| Net investment income |
0.04 | 0.18 | 0.19 | 0.24 | 0.13 | 0.13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments |
(0.06 | ) | 1.30 | 1.23 | (2.86 | ) | 3.26 | 0.59 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Total increase (decrease) from investment operations |
(0.02 | ) | 1.48 | 1.42 | (2.62 | ) | 3.39 | 0.72 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Dividends from net investment income |
(0.10 | ) | (0.19 | ) | (0.19 | ) | (0.24 | ) | (0.15 | ) | (0.13 | ) | ||||||||||||
| Distributions from net realized gains |
— | — | — | (0.26 | ) | — | — | |||||||||||||||||
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| Total decrease from dividends |
(0.10 | ) | (0.19 | ) | (0.19 | ) | (0.50 | ) | (0.15 | ) | (0.13 | ) | ||||||||||||
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| Net Asset Value, end of period |
$ | 14.18 | $ | 14.30 | $ | 13.01 | $ | 11.78 | $ | 14.90 | $ | 11.66 | ||||||||||||
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| Total return |
(0.14 | )%(a) | 11.46 | % | 12.15 | % | (18.05 | )% | 29.09 | % | 6.51 | % | ||||||||||||
| Ratios/Supplemental data: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net assets, end of period (in 000’s) |
$ | 121,631 | $ | 132,790 | $ | 135,514 | $ | 115,620 | $ | 112,002 | $ | 61,608 | ||||||||||||
| Ratio of expenses to average net assets |
0.98 | %(b) | 0.98 | % | 0.98 | % | 0.98 | % | 0.98 | % | 0.98 | % | ||||||||||||
| Ratio of net investment income to average net assets |
0.46 | %(b) | 1.45 | % | 1.64 | % | 1.85 | % | 1.07 | % | 1.28 | % | ||||||||||||
| Portfolio turnover(c) |
3 | %(a) | 29 | % | 42 | % | 29 | % | 31 | % | 20 | % | ||||||||||||
| (a) | Not annualized. |
| (b) | Annualized. |
| (c) | Calculated at Fund level. |
See Notes to Financial Statements
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| GREEN CENTURY FUNDS NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (unaudited) |
NOTE 1 — Organization and Significant Accounting Policies
Green Century Funds (the “Trust”) is a Massachusetts business trust which offers three separate series, the Green Century Balanced Fund (the “Balanced Fund”), the Green Century Equity Fund (the “Equity Fund”) and the Green Century MSCI International Index Fund (the “MSCI International Index Fund”), each a “Fund” and collectively, the “Funds”. The Trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Act”), as an open-end, diversified management investment company. The Trust accounts separately for the assets, liabilities and operations of each series. The Balanced Fund Investor Share Class commenced operations on March 18, 1992, the Balanced Fund Institutional Share Class commenced operations on November 30, 2020, the Equity Fund Individual Investor Share Class commenced operations on September 13, 1995, the Equity Fund Institutional Share Class commenced operations on April 30, 2018, and the Individual Investor Share Class and Institutional Share Class of the MSCI International Index Fund commenced operations on September 30, 2016.
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”) requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Each Fund is an investment company and accordingly follows the investment company accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) Accounting Standard Codification Topic 946 “Financial Services—Investment Companies”.
The following is a summary of the Funds’ significant accounting policies:
| (A) | Investment Valuation: Equity securities listed on U.S. national securities exchanges other than NASDAQ are valued at last sale price. If a last sale price is not available, securities listed on U.S. national exchanges other than NASDAQ are valued at the mean between the closing bid and closing ask prices. NASDAQ National Market® and SmallCapSM securities are valued at the NASDAQ Official Closing Price (“NOCP”). The NOCP is based on the last traded price if it falls within the concurrent best bid and ask prices and is normalized pursuant to NASDAQ’s published procedures if it falls outside this range. If a NOCP is not available for any such security, the security is valued at the last sale price, or, if there have been no sales that day, at the mean between the closing bid and closing ask prices. Unlisted U.S. equity securities are valued at last sale price, or when last sale prices are not available, at the last quoted bid price. Debt securities (other than certificates of deposit and short-term obligations maturing in sixty days or less) are valued on the basis of valuations furnished by an independent pricing service which takes into account appropriate factors such as institution-size trading in similar groups of securities, yield, quality, coupon rate, maturity, type of issue, and other market data, without exclusive reliance on quoted prices, exchange or over-the-counter prices. Certificates of deposit are valued at cost plus accrued interest, and short-term obligations maturing in sixty days or less are valued at amortized cost, both of which approximate fair value. Securities, if any, for which there are no such valuations or quotations available, or for which the market quotation or valuation provided by a pricing service is deemed not reliable, are valued at fair value by management as determined in good faith under guidelines established by the Trustees. Effective September 8, 2022, pursuant to Rule 2a-5 under the 1940 Act, the Board of Trustees has designated Green Century Capital Management, Inc. (“GCCM”) as a valuation designee (the “Valuation Designee”) to determine the fair value, in good faith, of securities and other instruments for which no readily available market quotation exists. As Valuation Designee, GCCM is |
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| GREEN CENTURY FUNDS NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (unaudited) |
continued |
| responsible for the supervision and implementation of the valuation process with respect to the Funds, subject to the Board’s oversight. GCCM will, among other things, (1) assess and manage material risks associated with fair value determinations; (2) select, apply and test fair value methodologies; and (3) oversee and evaluate pricing services used. |
For non-U.S. securities traded in foreign markets, the MSCI International Index Fund uses a fair value model developed by an independent pricing service to assist in valuing those securities. If an event occurs after the time at which the market for foreign securities held by the Fund closes but before the time that the Fund’s next NAV is calculated, such event may cause the closing price on the foreign exchange to not represent the readily available reliable market value quotation for such securities at the time the Fund determines its NAV. In such a case, the Fund will use the fair value of such securities as determined under the Fund’s valuation procedures. Events after the close of trading on a foreign market that could require a Fund to fair value some or all of its foreign securities include, among others, securities trading in the U.S. and other markets, corporate announcements, natural and other disasters, and political and other events. Among other elements of analysis in the determination of a security’s fair value, the Board has authorized the use of one or more independent research services to assist with such determinations. An independent research service may use statistical analyses and quantitative models to help determine fair value as of the time the Fund calculates its NAV. There can be no assurance that such models accurately reflect the behavior of the applicable markets or the effect of the behavior of such markets on the fair value of securities, or that such markets will continue to behave in a fashion that is consistent with such models. Unlike the closing price of a security on an exchange, fair value determinations employ elements of judgment. Consequently, the fair value assigned to a security may not represent the actual value that the Fund could obtain if it were to sell the security at the time of the close of the NYSE. Pursuant to procedures adopted by the Board, the Fund is not obligated to use the fair valuations suggested by any research service, and valuation recommendations provided by such research services may be overridden if other events have occurred or if other fair valuations are determined in good faith to be more accurate. Unless an event is such that it causes the Fund to determine that the closing prices for one or more securities do not represent readily available reliable market value quotations at the time the Fund determines its NAV, events that occur between the time of the close of the foreign market on which they are traded and the close of regular trading on the NYSE will not be reflected in the Fund’s NAV.
In accordance with U.S. GAAP, fair value is defined as the price that each Fund would receive to sell an investment or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction with an independent buyer in the principal market, or in the absence of a principal market the most advantageous market for the investment or liability. Various inputs are used in determining the value of the Fund’s investments. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:
Level 1 — quoted prices for active markets for identical securities. An active market for the security is a market in which transactions occur with sufficient frequency and volume to provide pricing information on an ongoing basis. A quoted price in an active market provides the most reliable evidence of fair value.
Level 2 — other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.). Examples of level 2 inputs include 1) quoted prices for identical or similar assets in markets that are not active 2) investments valued at amortized cost and 3) investments valued with inputs that are derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data. An adjustment to any observable input that is significant to the fair value may render the measurement a Level 3 measurement.
Level 3 — significant unobservable inputs, including the Funds’ own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments.
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In some cases, the inputs used to measure the fair value of an asset or a liability might be categorized within different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In those cases, the fair value measurement is categorized in its entirety in the same level of the fair value hierarchy as the lowest level input that is significant to the entire measurement. The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the Balanced Fund’s net assets as of January 31, 2025:
| LEVEL 1 | LEVEL 2 | LEVEL 3 | TOTAL | |||||||||||||
| COMMON STOCKS |
$266,455,086 | $ — | $ — | $266,455,086 | ||||||||||||
| BONDS & NOTES |
— | 128,796,600 | — | 128,796,600 | ||||||||||||
| SHORT-TERM OBLIGATIONS |
2,564,262 | — | — | 2,564,262 | ||||||||||||
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| TOTAL |
$269,019,348 | $128,796,600 | $ — | $397,815,948 | ||||||||||||
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The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the Equity Fund’s net assets as of January 31, 2025:
| LEVEL 1 | LEVEL 2 | LEVEL 3 | TOTAL | |||||||||||||
| COMMON STOCKS |
$697,297,406 | $ — | $ — | $697,297,406 | ||||||||||||
| SHORT-TERM OBLIGATIONS |
1,142,635 | — | — | 1,142,635 | ||||||||||||
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| TOTAL |
$698,400,041 | $ — | $ — | $698,400,041 | ||||||||||||
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The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the MSCI International Index Fund’s net assets as of January 31, 2025:
| LEVEL 1 | LEVEL 2 | LEVEL 3 | TOTAL | |||||||||||||
| COMMON STOCKS | ||||||||||||||||
| JAPAN |
$ — | $42,329,745 | $ — | $42,329,745 | ||||||||||||
| CANADA |
23,196,257 | — | — | 23,196,257 | ||||||||||||
| UNITED KINGDOM |
— | 16,381,542 | — | 16,381,542 | ||||||||||||
| FRANCE |
— | 16,012,064 | — | 16,012,064 | ||||||||||||
| SWITZERLAND |
1,567,134 | 13,998,813 | — | 15,565,947 | ||||||||||||
| NETHERLANDS |
— | 13,975,751 | — | 13,975,751 | ||||||||||||
| AUSTRALIA |
— | 10,215,306 | — | 10,215,306 | ||||||||||||
| DENMARK |
— | 8,539,250 | — | 8,539,250 | ||||||||||||
| GERMANY |
570,844 | 5,544,808 | — | 6,115,652 | ||||||||||||
| HONG KONG |
— | 3,852,537 | — | 3,852,537 | ||||||||||||
| FINLAND |
241,527 | 2,533,492 | — | 2,775,019 | ||||||||||||
| ITALY |
— | 2,769,181 | — | 2,769,181 | ||||||||||||
| SWEDEN |
506,343 | 1,870,485 | — | 2,376,828 | ||||||||||||
| SPAIN |
— | 1,970,371 | — | 1,970,371 | ||||||||||||
| NORWAY |
810,358 | 989,609 | — | 1,799,967 | ||||||||||||
| IRELAND |
— | 1,172,670 | — | 1,172,670 | ||||||||||||
| BELGIUM |
— | 1,001,907 | — | 1,001,907 | ||||||||||||
| SINGAPORE |
— | 755,752 | — | 755,752 | ||||||||||||
| NEW ZEALAND |
165,331 | — | — | 165,331 | ||||||||||||
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| TOTAL COMMON STOCKS |
27,057,794 | 143,913,283 | — | 170,971,077 | ||||||||||||
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| SHORT-TERM OBLIGATIONS |
14,641 | — | — | 14,641 | ||||||||||||
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| TOTAL |
$27,072,435 | $143,913,283 | $ — | $170,985,718 | ||||||||||||
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| LIABILITIES OTHER FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS* |
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| FORWARD CONTRACTS |
$ — | $ (8,251) | $ — | $ (8,251) | ||||||||||||
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| TOTAL OTHER FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS |
$ — | $ (8,251) | $ — | $ (8,251) | ||||||||||||
* Other financial instruments are derivative instruments such as forward contracts. Forward contracts are valued at the unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on the instrument.
There were no transfers into or out of Level 3 during the reporting period.
| (B) | Securities Transactions and Investment Income: Securities transactions are recorded on a trade date basis. Realized gains and losses from securities transactions are determined using the identified cost basis. Interest income, including amortization of premiums and accretion of discounts on bonds, is recognized on the accrual basis and dividend income is recorded on ex-dividend date. Income, expenses and realized and unrealized gains and losses on investments are allocated to each class of shares in proportion to their relative shares outstanding. |
| (C) | Currency Translations and Contracts: Securities and other assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollar amounts on the date of valuation. Purchases and sales of securities, and income and expense items denominated in foreign currencies, are translated into U.S. dollar amounts on |
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| the respective dates of such transactions. Occasionally, events impact the availability or reliability of foreign exchange rates used to convert the U.S. dollar equivalent value. If such an event occurs, the foreign exchange rate will be valued at fair value using procedures established and approved by the Board of Trustees. The Funds do not separately report the effect of fluctuations in foreign exchange rates from changes in market prices on securities held. Such fluctuations are included with the net realized and unrealized gain or loss from investments. Realized foreign exchange gains or losses arise from sales of foreign currencies, currency gains or losses realized between the trade and settlement dates on securities transactions, and the difference between the recorded amounts of dividends, interest, and foreign withholding taxes and the U.S. dollar equivalent of the amounts actually received or paid. Net unrealized foreign exchange gains and losses arise from changes in fair value of assets and liabilities other than investments in securities held at the end of the reporting period, resulting from changes in exchange rates. When a Fund purchases or sells foreign securities, it enters into foreign exchange contracts to minimize foreign exchange risk from the trade date to the settlement date of the transactions. A foreign exchange contract is an agreement between two parties to exchange different currencies at an agreed-upon exchange rate on a specified date. The MSCI International Index Fund held open foreign currency spot contracts outstanding as of January 31, 2025 that are not considered investments. The MSCI International Index Fund held forward foreign currency exchange contracts (“Forward Contracts”) as of January 31, 2025 displayed in the Portfolio of Investments. |
Cash, including cash denominated in foreign currencies, represents cash on hand held at major financial institutions and is subject to credit risk to the extent the balance exceeds applicable Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) or Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) limitations.
| (D) | Distributions: Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. The Funds declare and pay dividends of net investment income, if any, semi-annually and distribute net realized capital gains, if any, annually. The amount and character of income and net realized gains to be distributed are determined in accordance with Federal income tax rules and regulations, which may differ from U.S. GAAP. To the extent that these differences are attributable to permanent book and tax accounting differences, the components of net assets have been adjusted. |
| (E) | Federal Taxes: Each series of the Trust is treated as a separate entity for Federal income tax purposes. Each Fund’s policy is to comply with the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to regulated investment companies (“RICs”). Accordingly, no provisions for Federal income or excise tax are necessary. |
U.S. GAAP requires that all entities, including pass-through entities such as the Funds, establish a minimum threshold for financial statement recognition of the benefit of positions taken in filing tax returns (including whether an entity is taxable in a particular jurisdiction). The Funds recognize tax benefits only if it is more likely than not that a tax position (including the Funds’ assertion that their income is exempt from tax) will be sustained upon examination. The Funds had no material uncertain tax positions and have not recorded a liability for unrecognized tax benefits as of January 31, 2025. Also, the Funds had recognized no interest and penalties related to uncertain tax benefits through January 31, 2025. At January 31, 2025, the tax years 2021 through 2024 remain open to examination by the Internal Revenue Service.
| (F) | Redemption Fee: A 2.00% redemption fee is retained by the Funds to offset the effect of transaction costs and other expenses associated with short-term investing. The fee is imposed on redemptions or exchanges of shares held 60 days or less from their purchase date. For the six months ended January 31, 2025, the Balanced Fund, Equity Fund and MSCI International Index Fund received $2,963, $8,946, and $6,214 respectively, in redemption fees. Redemption fees are recorded as an adjustment to paid-in capital. |
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| (G) | Indemnification: The Funds’ organizational documents provide that trustees and officers are indemnified against certain liabilities arising out of the performance of their duties to the Funds. In the normal course of business, the Funds may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Funds’ maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Funds. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote. As of January 31, 2025, no liability has been accrued. |
| (H) | Offsetting of Assets and Liabilities: As of January 31, 2025, there are no master netting arrangements related to the Funds. The Funds’ Statements of Assets and Liabilities present derivative instruments on a gross basis, if applicable. As of January 31, 2025, no derivative instruments with master netting arrangements were held by the Funds. |
NOTE 2 — Transactions With Affiliates
| (A) | Investment Adviser: GCCM is the adviser (“the Adviser”) for the Funds. Green Century is owned by Paradigm Partners. Green Century oversees the portfolio management of the Funds on a day-to-day basis. Green Century’s investment advisory fee paid by the Balanced Fund shall be equal on an annual basis to 0.65% of the average daily net assets of the Fund up to $250 million and 0.60% of the value of the average daily net assets of the Fund in excess of $250 million, accrued daily and paid monthly. The Equity Fund pays Green Century a fee, accrued daily and paid monthly, at an annual rate of 0.25% of the Equity Fund’s average daily net assets up to but not including $100 million, 0.22% of average daily net assets including $100 million up to but not including $500 million, 0.17% of average daily net assets including $500 million up to but not including $1 billion and 0.12% of average daily net assets equal to or in excess of $1 billion. The MSCI International Index Fund pays Green Century a fee, accrued daily and paid monthly, at an annual rate of 0.28% of the MSCI International Index Fund’s average daily net assets. |
| (B) | Subadvisers: Trillium Asset Management, LLC (“Trillium”) is the subadviser for the Balanced Fund. Trillium’s investment subadvisory fee with respect to the Fund shall be equal on an annual basis to 0.40% of the value of the average daily net assets of the Fund up to $30 million, 0.35% of the value of the average daily net assets of the Fund in excess of $30 million up to $250 million, and 0.30% of the value of the average daily net assets of the Fund in excess of $250 million. For the six months ended January 31, 2025, Green Century accrued fees of $686,810 to Trillium. Northern Trust Investments, Inc. (“Northern Trust”) is the subadviser for the Equity Fund and MSCI International Index Fund. For the Equity Fund, Northern Trust is paid a fee by the Adviser based on Northern Trust’s fee schedule of the greater of $75,000 or 0.10% of the value of the average daily net assets of the Fund up to but not including $50 million, 0.05% of the average daily net assets of the Fund from and including $50 million up to but not including $100 million and 0.03% of the average daily net assets of the Fund equal to or in excess of $100 million for its services. For the MSCI International Index Fund, Northern Trust is paid a fee by the Adviser based on Northern Trust’s fee schedule of the greater of $100,000 or 0.17% of the value of the average daily net assets of the Fund up to but not including $50 million, 0.12% of the average daily net assets of the Fund from and including $50 million up to but not including $100 million and 0.08% of the average daily net assets of the Fund equal to or in excess of $100 million for its services. For the six months ended January 31, 2025, Green Century accrued fees of $126,917 and $107,171 to Northern Trust for the Equity Fund and the MSCI International Index Fund, respectively. |
| (C) | Administrator: Green Century is the administrator (“the Administrator”) of the Green Century Funds. Pursuant to the Administrative Services Agreement, Green Century pays all the expenses of each Fund other than the investment advisory fees; interest; taxes; brokerage costs and other capital expenses; expenses of |
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| non-interested trustees (including counsel fees) and any extraordinary expenses. The Balanced Fund pays Green Century a fee at a rate such that immediately following any payment to the Administrator, the total operating expenses of the Fund, on an annual basis, do not exceed 1.48% of the Fund’s Individual Investor Class average daily net assets up to and including $250 million and 1.43% of the Fund’s Individual Investor Class average daily net assets in excess of $250 million, and 1.18% of the Fund’s Institutional Class average daily net assets up to and including $250 million and 1.13% of the Fund’s Institutional Class average daily net assets in excess of $250 million. The Equity Fund pays Green Century a fee at a rate such that immediately following any payment to the Administrator, the total operating expenses of the Fund, on an annual basis, do not exceed 1.20% of the Fund’s Individual Investor Class average daily net assets, and 0.90% of the Fund’s Institutional Class average daily net assets. Prior to March 1, 2024, the Equity Fund paid Green Century a fee at a rate such that immediately following any payment to the Administrator, the total operating expenses of the Fund, on an annual basis, did not exceed 1.25% of the Fund’s Individual Investor Class average daily net assets, and 0.95% of the Fund’s Institutional Class average daily net assets. The MSCI International Index Fund pays Green Century a fee at a rate such that immediately following any payment to the Administrator, the total operating expenses of the Fund, on an annual basis, do not exceed 1.28% of the Fund’s Individual Investor Class average daily net assets, and 0.98% of the Fund’s Institutional Class average daily net assets. |
| (D) | Subadministrator: Pursuant to a Subadministrative and Fund Accounting Services Agreement with the Administrator, UMB Fund Services, Inc. (“UMBFS”) as Subadministrator and Fund Accountant, is responsible for conducting fund accounting and certain day-to-day administration of the Trust subject to the supervision and direction of the Administrator. For the six months ended January 31, 2025, Green Century accrued fees of $134,708, $205,723, and $76,182 to UMBFS related to services performed on behalf of the Balanced Fund, the Equity Fund, and the MSCI International Index Fund, respectively. |
| (E) | Index Agreements: The Equity Fund invests in the securities of the companies included in the MSCI KLD 400 Social ex Fossil Fuels Index (the “KLD Index”). The Index is owned and maintained by MSCI ESG Research (“MSCI”). For the use of the KLD Index for the Equity Fund, MSCI is paid by the Adviser an annual license fee of $29,913, plus the greater of $26,000 or at an annual rate of 0.05% on the first $100 million of average daily net assets, 0.04% on the next $100 million of average daily net assets, and 0.03% on average daily net assets in excess of $200 million. The MSCI International Index Fund invests in the securities included in the MSCI World ex USA SRI ex Fossil Fuels Index (the “World Index”). The Index is owned and maintained by MSCI. For the use of the World Index for the MSCI International Index Fund, MSCI is paid by the Adviser an annual license fee of $31,094, plus the greater of $25,000 or at an annual rate of 0.05% on the first $100 million of average daily net assets, 0.04% on the next $100 million of average daily net assets, and 0.03% on average daily net assets in excess of $200 million. For the six months ended January 31, 2025, Green Century accrued fees of $134,289 and $57,442 to MSCI for the Equity Fund and MSCI International Index Fund, respectively. |
NOTE 3 — Investment Transactions
For the six months ended January 31, 2025, the Balanced Fund’s cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $56,550,807 and $65,488,261 respectively. The Equity Fund’s cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $18,479,468 and $29,638,178, respectively. The MSCI International Index Fund’s cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of securities, other than short-term securities, aggregated $6,384,326 and $24,186,046, respectively.
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NOTE 4 — Federal Income Tax Information
The tax basis of the components of distributable net earnings (deficit) at July 31, 2024 were as follows:
| BALANCED FUND | EQUITY FUND | MSCI INTERNATIONAL INDEX FUND |
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| Undistributed ordinary income |
$ | 754,958 | $ | 37,307 | $ | 729,173 | ||||||
| Undistributed long-term capital gains |
17,319,329 | 604,489 | — | |||||||||
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| Tax accumulated earnings |
18,074,287 | 641,796 | 729,173 | |||||||||
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| Accumulated capital and other losses |
— | (387,129 | ) | |||||||||
| Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) |
124,434,137 | 403,840,087 | 32,218,716 | |||||||||
| Foreign currency translations |
— | — | 8,632 | |||||||||
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| Distributable net earnings (deficit) |
$ | 142,508,424 | $ | 404,481,883 | $ | 32,569,392 | ||||||
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As of July 31, 2024, the Funds had net capital loss carryovers as follows:
| BALANCED FUND | EQUITY FUND | MSCI INTERNATIONAL INDEX FUND |
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| Not subject to expiration | ||||||||||||
| Short Term |
$ | — | $ | — | $ | 259,480 | ||||||
| Long Term |
— | — | 127,649 | |||||||||
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| $ | — | $ | — | $ | 387,129 | |||||||
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To the extent that the Fund realizes future net capital gains, those gains will be offset by any unused capital loss carryforwards.
The tax character of distributions paid during the fiscal year ended July 31, 2024 and the year ended July 31, 2023 were as follows:
| BALANCED FUND | EQUITY FUND | |||||||||||||||
| YEAR ENDED JULY 31, 2024 |
YEAR ENDED JULY 31, 2023 |
YEAR ENDED July 31, 2024 |
YEAR ENDED JULY 31, 2023 |
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| Ordinary income |
$ | 3,113,789 | $ | 1,829,536 | $ | 1,688,009 | $ | 2,391,471 | ||||||||
| Long-term capital gains |
8,722,533 | 6,110,122 | — | 1,235,177 | ||||||||||||
| MSCI INTERNATIONAL INDEX FUND | ||||||||||||||||
| YEAR ENDED JULY 31, 2024 |
YEAR ENDED JULY 31, 2023 |
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| Ordinary income |
$ | 2,688,660 | $ | 2,583,158 | ||||||||||||
| Long-term capital gains |
— | — | ||||||||||||||
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NOTE 5 — Capital Share Transactions
Capital Share transactions for the Balanced Fund, the Equity Fund and the MSCI International Index Fund were as follows:
| BALANCED FUND INDIVIDUAL INVESTOR CLASS |
BALANCED FUND INDIVIDUAL INVESTOR CLASS |
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| SIX MONTHS ENDED JANUARY 31, 2025 |
YEAR ENDED JULY 31, 2024 |
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| Shares sold |
244,670 | 510,635 | ||||||
| Reinvestment of dividends |
489,764 | 237,628 | ||||||
| Shares redeemed |
(626,294 | ) | (1,378,980 | ) | ||||
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| 108,140 | (630,717 | ) | ||||||
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| BALANCED FUND INSTITUTIONAL CLASS |
BALANCED FUND INSTITUTIONAL CLASS |
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| SIX MONTHS ENDED JANUARY 31, 2025 |
YEAR ENDED JULY 31, 2024 |
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| Shares sold |
289,354 | 647,509 | ||||||
| Reinvestment of dividends |
235,514 | 105,049 | ||||||
| Shares redeemed |
(259,755 | ) | (766,329 | ) | ||||
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| 265,113 | (13,771 | ) | ||||||
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| EQUITY FUND INDIVIDUAL INVESTOR CLASS |
EQUITY FUND INDIVIDUAL INVESTOR CLASS |
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| SIX MONTHS ENDED JANUARY 31, 2025 |
YEAR ENDED JULY 31, 2024 |
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| Shares sold |
187,807 | 443,726 | ||||||
| Reinvestment of dividends |
40,486 | 6,359 | ||||||
| Shares redeemed |
(285,449 | ) | (519,947 | ) | ||||
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| (57,156 | ) | (69,862 | ) | |||||
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| EQUITY FUND INSTITUTIONAL CLASS |
EQUITY FUND INSTITUTIONAL CLASS |
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| SIX MONTHS ENDED JANUARY 31, 2025 |
YEAR ENDED JULY 31, 2024 |
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| Shares sold |
202,877 | 546,578 | ||||||
| Reinvestment of dividends |
33,554 | 12,357 | ||||||
| Shares redeemed |
(257,817 | ) | (556,153 | ) | ||||
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| (21,386 | ) | 2,782 | ||||||
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| MSCI INTERNATIONAL INDEX INDIVIDUAL INVESTOR CLASS |
MSCI INTERNATIONAL INDEX INDIVIDUAL INVESTOR CLASS |
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| SIX MONTHS ENDED JANUARY 31, 2025 |
YEAR ENDED JULY 31, 2024 |
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| Shares sold |
305,411 | 641,629 | ||||||
| Reinvestment of dividends |
20,288 | 45,497 | ||||||
| Shares redeemed |
(856,274 | ) | (589,765 | ) | ||||
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| (530,575 | ) | 97,361 | ||||||
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| MSCI INTERNATIONAL INDEX INSTITUTIONAL CLASS |
MSCI INTERNATIONAL INDEX INSTITUTIONAL CLASS |
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| SIX MONTHS ENDED JANUARY 31, 2025 |
YEAR ENDED JULY 31, 2024 |
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| Shares sold |
425,286 | 1,560,326 | ||||||
| Reinvestment of dividends |
60,930 | 148,184 | ||||||
| Shares redeemed |
(1,194,669 | ) | (2,842,556 | ) | ||||
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| (708,453 | ) | (1,134,046 | ) | |||||
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Note 6 — Derivative and Hedging Disclosure
Derivatives and Hedging requires enhanced disclosures about the Funds’ derivative and hedging activities, including how such activities are accounted for and their effects on the Funds’ financial position and performance. The MSCI International Index Fund invested in forward foreign currency exchange contracts during the six months ended January 31, 2025.
The effects of these derivative instruments on the Fund’s financial position and financial performance as reflected in the Statements of Assets and Liabilities and Statements of Operations are presented in the tables below. The fair values of derivative instruments, as of January 31, 2025, by risk category are as follows:
| MSCI INTERNATIONAL INDEX |
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| Asset Derivatives |
Liability Derivatives |
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| Derivatives designated as hedging instruments |
Statements of Assets and Liabilities |
Value | Statements of Assets and Liabilities |
Value | ||||||||
| Foreign Exchange Contract |
Unrealized appreciation on forward foreign currency exchange contracts |
$ | 7,956 | Unrealized depreciation on forward foreign currency exchange contracts |
$ | 16,207 | ||||||
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| GREEN CENTURY FUNDS NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (unaudited) |
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The effects of derivative instruments on the Statements of Operations for the six months ended January 31, 2025, are as follows:
| MSCI INTERNATIONAL INDEX |
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| Amount of Realized Gain or (Loss) on Derivatives Recognized in the Statements of Operations |
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| Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments |
Forward Contracts | |||
| Foreign exchange contracts |
$(22 | ) | ||
| MSCI INTERNATIONAL INDEX |
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| Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) on Derivatives Recognized in the Statements of Operations |
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| Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments |
Forward Contracts | |||
| Foreign exchange contracts |
$ | (20,503 | ) | |
The average quarterly volume of derivative instruments held by the Funds during the six months ended January 31, 2025 are as follows:
| MSCI INTERNATIONAL INDEX |
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| Forward Contracts | ||||||||
| Foreign exchange purchase contracts |
Notional Value | $ | 851,662 | |||||
| Foreign exchange sale contracts |
Notional Value | $ | (408,609 | ) | ||||
NOTE 7 — Segment Reporting
Operating segments are components of an entity that engage in business activities, have discrete financial information available, and have their operating results regularly reviewed by a chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) when assessing segment performance and making decisions about segment resources. Officers of the Advisor act as the Funds’ CODM. The Funds’ operations are managed to a single investment objective, as detailed in its prospectus, through the execution of the Funds’ investment strategies. The Funds’ portfolio composition, total returns, expense ratios and changes in net assets used by the CODM to assess segment performance and make resource allocations are consistent with the information presented within the Funds’ Financial Statements. The accompanying Financial Statements detail the Funds’ segment assets, liabilities, income, and expenses.
The accounting policies of the segment are the same as those described in the summary of significant accounting policies. The financial statements include all details of the segment assets, segment revenue and expenses; and reflect the financial results of the segment.
NOTE 8 — Market Risks and Geopolitical Risks
Certain local, regional, or global events such as war, acts of terrorism, the spread of infectious illness and/or other public health issues, financial institution instability or other events may have a significant impact on a security or instrument. These types of events and other like them are collectively referred to as “Market Disruptions and Geopolitical Risks” and they may have adverse impacts on the worldwide economy, as well as the economies of individual countries, the financial health of individual companies and the market in general in significant and
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| GREEN CENTURY FUNDS NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (unaudited) |
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unforeseen ways. Some of the impacts noted in recent times include but are not limited to embargos, political actions, supply chain disruptions, bank failures, restrictions to investment and/or monetary movement including the forced selling of securities or the inability to participate impacted markets. The duration of these events could adversely affect the Funds’ performance, the performance of the securities in which the Funds invest and may lead to losses on your investment. The ultimate impact of “Market Disruptions and Geopolitical Risks” on the financial performance of the Funds’ investments is not reasonably estimable at this time. Management is actively monitoring these events.
NOTE 9 — Subsequent Events
Subsequent to January 31, 2025 and through the date on which the financial statements were available for issuance, management has evaluated subsequent events requiring disclosure.
There were no other events requiring accrual or disclosure.
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REPORT OF TRUSTEES REGARDING 2024 CONTRACT APPROVAL
The Board of Trustees of the Green Century Funds (the “Board” or the “Trustees”) considered and approved the continuation of the Funds’ advisory and subadvisory agreements.
INVESTMENT ADVISORY AGREEMENTS
The Trustees, including the Trustees who are not “interested persons” (as defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended) (the “Independent Trustees”), voted to approve the continuance of the Investment Advisory Agreements, as amended (the “Advisory Agreements”) between the Trust, on behalf of each of the Balanced Fund, the Equity Fund, and the International Fund and Green Century Capital Management (“Green Century” or the “Adviser”) at the November 14, 2024 meeting. The Trustees considered, among other things, information provided by Green Century regarding the investment performance of each Fund; the expenses of each Fund and the advisory fee paid to Green Century by each Fund; and the profitability to Green Century of its advisory relationship with each Fund. The Independent Trustees were assisted by independent counsel in considering these materials and the approval and continuance of the Advisory Agreements. The Trustees considered all of the information provided to them by Green Century, including information provided at Board meetings throughout the year and in connection with other communications and discussions with Green Century. The Independent Trustees also received a memorandum from independent legal counsel advising them of their duties and responsibilities in connection with the review of the Advisory Agreements. The Trustees met with representatives of Green Century at the Trustees’ November 14, 2024 meeting to discuss matters related to the continuation of the Advisory Agreements. Prior to voting, the Independent Trustees met with their independent counsel in private sessions at which no representatives of management were present. In approving the Advisory Agreements, the Independent Trustees did not identify any single factor as determinative. Matters considered in connection with their approval of the Advisory Agreements included the following.
Nature, Quality, and Extent of Services Performed. The Trustees considered the scope and quality of the services performed for each of the Funds by the Adviser, including the resources dedicated by the Adviser.
With respect to the Balanced Fund, the services performed include the oversight and monitoring of the portfolio management and performance of the Balanced Fund; monitoring the implementation of the Balanced Fund’s environmental screens; implementing the environmental and other policies of the Trust by voting the Balanced Fund’s shareholder proxies independently and without reliance on third-party proxy advisory firms; and overall compliance oversight provided by the Adviser. The Trustees also considered the Adviser’s supervision of Trillium Asset Management, LLC (“Trillium”), the subadviser of the Balanced Fund, which performs the day-to-day portfolio management for the Fund.
With respect to the Equity Fund and the International Fund, these services include monitoring the Equity Fund’s performance and tracking error relative to the MSCI KLD 400 Social ex Fossil Fuels Index (the “MSCI KLD Index”); monitoring the International Fund’s performance and tracking error relative to the MSCI World ex USA SRI ex Fossil Fuels Index (the “MSCI World Index”); implementing the environmental and other policies of the Trust by voting the Equity Fund’s and the International Fund’s shareholder proxies independently and without reliance on third-party proxy advisory firms; and overall compliance oversight provided by the Adviser. The Trustees also considered the Adviser’s supervision of Northern Trust Investments, Inc. (“Northern Trust”), the subadviser of the Equity Fund and the International Fund, which performs day-to-day portfolio management for those two Funds.
In addition, the Trustees considered the Adviser’s mission to promote corporate environmental responsibility and to foster a sustainable economy, implemented in part by its commitment with respect to shareholder advocacy for more environmentally responsible policies and practices at major corporations. They took into account the not-for-profit ownership of the Adviser’s business, including its history of making grants to non-profit organizations out of its own
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resources and the fact that any distribution of profits by the Adviser are paid to its 100% owner, Paradigm Partners, which is comprised entirely of nonprofit environmental and public interest advocacy organizations so that no for-profit corporations directly benefit from the distributed earned profits of the Adviser. The Trustees noted that the organizations under Paradigm Partners advocate for critical public health and environmental campaigns. The Trustees considered the Adviser’s distribution of profits in recent years and acknowledged the long-term commitment from Paradigm Partners over the 30+ years since the Trust was created. The Trustees also acknowledged their appreciation of the Funds’ new chief compliance officer and the effort undertaken by management to engage the new chief compliance officer. They also evaluated the administrative services provided by Green Century to the Funds under a separate agreement, including the coordination of the activities of the Funds’ other service providers. Based on its review of all of the services provided, the Trustees concluded that the nature, quality, and extent of services provided by the Adviser supported the continuance of the Advisory Agreements with respect to each Fund.
Investment Performance. With respect to the Balanced Fund, the Trustees reviewed and considered information regarding the investment performance of the Balanced Fund and comparative data with respect to the performance of other funds designated by Morningstar to have similar investment objectives as well as the Balanced Fund’s performance measured against the Lipper Balanced Fund Index (“Lipper Index”), which is a broad-based balanced fund market index, and against a custom balanced index (“Custom Index”) comprised of a 60% weighting in the S&P 1500 Index and a 40% weighting in the BofA Merrill Lynch 1-10 Year US Corporate and Government Index. In addition, the Trustees took into account the performance information they had been provided throughout the year. After weighing all the factors deemed appropriate, including the environmental screens applied to the Fund’s investment process, the Trustees concluded that the performance of the Balanced Fund supported the continuance of the Advisory Agreement with respect to the Balanced Fund.
With respect to the Equity Fund and the International Fund, the Trustees considered that due to each Fund’s passive investment strategy, the principal concern with regard to investment performance was the extent to which each Fund tracked its respective index. After considering all the factors deemed appropriate, the Trustees concluded that the performance of the Equity Fund and the International Fund supported the continuance of the respective Advisory Agreement.
The Costs of Services Provided and Profitability. The Trustees considered the costs of the services provided to the Funds and the profitability to the Adviser from its arrangements with the Funds.
The Trustees reviewed and considered an analysis of the advisory fees and total expenses ratios of each Fund and comparative data for multiple categories of mutual funds included in and as defined by Morningstar’s mutual fund database of thousands of mutual funds. In addition, the Trustees considered comparative advisory fee and expense ratio information provided by Green Century relating to a smaller set of peer funds identified by Green Century. The Trustees took into account, among other things, the distinct nature of the Funds as compared with peer funds, particularly with respect to the Funds’ social investing, the non-profit ownership of the Adviser, and the Adviser’s advocacy efforts and how those characteristics distinguished the Funds from their peers. The Trustees considered the size of Green Century and that Green Century was not at the same operational scale as most competitors, The Trustees also noted that, based on information provided by Green Century, competitors to the Equity Fund include actively managed funds in addition to index funds.
With respect to the Morningstar peer groups, for the Balanced Fund, the Trustees observed that, based on the information provided, the Fund’s advisory fee for the Individual Investor Class was higher than the average advisory fee for sustainable investment funds (by 11 basis points), sustainable investment balanced funds (by 15 basis points), all balanced funds (by 16 basis points) and balanced funds with assets between $300 million and $400 million (by 9 basis points). The Trustees also noted that the total expense ratio for the Individual Investor Class of the Balanced Fund was
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effectively capped at 1.46% through the application of a “unitary administrative fee” paid to Green Century, and that the total expense ratio was higher than that of the average of sustainable investment funds (by 55 basis points), sustainable investment balanced funds (by 39 basis points), all balanced funds (by 53 basis points) and balanced funds with assets between $300 million and $400 million (by 45 basis points).
For the Equity Fund, the Trustees observed that, based on the information provided, the Fund’s advisory fee for the Individual Investor Class was lower than the average advisory fee for sustainable investment funds (by 30 basis points), sustainable investment large growth funds (by 36 basis points), all large growth funds (by 44 basis points), large growth funds with assets between $600 million and $700 million (by 31 basis points) and large growth index funds (by 28 basis points). The Trustees also noted that the total expense ratio of Individual Investor Class of the Equity Fund was effectively capped at 1.20% through the application of a “unitary administrative fee” paid to Green Century, and that effective March 1, 2024, Green Century had contractually reduced the administrative fee for each share class of the Equity Fund by five basis points. The Trustees noted that the total expense ratio was higher than the average of sustainable investment funds (by 29 basis points), sustainable investment large growth funds (by 17 basis points) and all large growth funds (by 3 basis points) and large growth funds with assets between $600 million and $700 million (by 18 basis points), and was lower than the average of large growth index funds (by 3 basis points).
For the International Fund, the Trustees noted that, based on the information provided, the Fund’s advisory fee for the Individual Investor Class was lower than that of the average advisory fee for sustainable investment funds (by 24 basis points), sustainable investment foreign large blend funds (by 32 basis points), all foreign large blend funds (by 33 basis points) and foreign large blend funds with assets between $100 million and $200 million (by 40 basis points) and was higher than the average advisory fee for foreign large blend index funds (by 13 basis points). The Trustees also noted that the total expense ratio of Individual Investor Class shares of the International Fund was effectively capped at 1.28% through the application of a “unitary administrative fee” paid to Green Century, and that the total expense ratio was higher than that of the average of sustainable investment funds (by 37 basis points), sustainable investment foreign large blend funds (by 31 basis points), all foreign large blend funds (by 23 basis points), foreign large blend index funds (by 90 basis points) and was lower than the average of foreign large blend funds with assets between $100 million and $200 million (by 9 basis points).
Green Century provided the Trustees with information relating to the profitability to Green Century of its advisory relationships to the Funds. The Trustees noted that, based on information provided by Green Century, the relationships to the Funds had been unprofitable for the earlier years of the Trust, though recent growth in Fund assets resulted in a profit for the Adviser’s fiscal year ended June 30, 2015 and increasing levels of profit for subsequent periods through the Adviser’s fiscal year ended June 30, 2024. The Trustees considered an analysis of the estimated Fund-by-Fund profitability for Green Century from the investment management and administrative service it provides to the Trust, which showed that the Adviser had made a profit from managing each Fund for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024. In this regard, the Independent Trustees considered the subadvisory fees and the other expenses incurred by the Adviser in providing advisory services to the Funds and the amount retained by Green Century out of the advisory fees. The Trustees also considered the fees received by Green Century for providing administrative services to the Funds and the expenses incurred in providing those services. In considering the cost allocation methodology used by Green Century, the Trustees took into consideration that the Adviser derives all of its revenues from the Funds and does not provide advisory or administrative services to other mutual funds or to non-mutual fund clients. The Trustees considered the costs and entrepreneurial risks assumed by the Adviser in connection with launching, branding and maintaining publicly-offered mutual funds and that the Adviser had been unprofitable for nine of the last twenty fiscal years. The Trustees took into account the operational enhancements that Green Century had indicated it would need to undertake in connection with the growth of Fund assets, the addition of new share classes, and the expansion into different types of assets. The Trustees also considered Green Century’s non-profit ownership structure, its cost structure and personnel needs, and its investment in shareholder advocacy that aligns with the Funds’ stated intention to promote greater
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corporate environmental accountability. The Trustees also took into account that, as disclosed in the Funds’ prospectus, Green Century may provide grants and other funding to non-profit advocacy organizations to support their campaign work on wilderness protection, environmental protection, clean energy and other public benefit issues. After reviewing the information described above, the Trustees concluded that the fees specified in the Advisory Agreements, taking into account the costs of the services provided by the Adviser and the profitability to the Adviser of its relationships with the Funds, supported the continuance of the Advisory Agreements with respect to the Funds.
Other Benefits. With respect to fall-out benefits from the Adviser’s arrangements with the Funds, the Trustees considered that neither Green Century nor any affiliate of Green Century receives any brokerage fees, soft dollar benefits, liquidity rebates from electronic communications networks or payments for order flow from the trades executed for each Fund. The Trustees noted that Green Century does potentially benefit from its relationship with the Funds due to the Funds’ reputation as the first family of no-load environmentally responsible mutual funds and, more recently, as a pioneer in responsible and diversified fossil fuel free mutual funds. The Trustees considered that the association with the Funds supports Green Century’s own stated mission of advocating for corporate environmental responsibility. Further, pursuant to the Advisory Agreements, Green Century has reserved for itself the rights to the names “Green Century Funds” and any similar names; thus, Green Century may benefit in the future from developing other funds or investment products with the Green Century brand. The Trustees considered these fall-out benefits in context of the Adviser’s non-profit ownership structure and its history of providing grants and other funding to non-profit advocacy organizations. The Trustees concluded that the fall-out benefits to be realized by Green Century were appropriate.
Economies of Scale. The Trustees also considered whether economies of scale could be realized by the Adviser as the Funds grow in asset size and the extent to which such economies of scale were reflected in the level of fees charged. They noted the relatively small size of each Fund and the resultant difficulty of achieving meaningful economies of scale, though they took into account the effects of significant increases in Fund and Trust assets over the past few years, building upon what had historically been a very small base. They considered that if the assets were to increase further, the Funds could have the opportunity to experience economies of scale as fixed costs would become a smaller percentage of the Funds’ assets and some of the Funds’ service providers’ fees, as a percentage of the Funds’ assets, could decrease. The Trustees noted that the advisory fee structure for each of the Equity Fund and the Balanced Fund includes breakpoints that would cause the advisory fee to decrease as a percentage of net assets as the Fund increased in size, though under certain circumstances the structure of the Equity Fund’s unitary administrative fee arrangement with the Adviser offsets the effects of any advisory fee reduction on the total expense ratio. The Trustees noted that, effective March 1, 2024, Green Century had contractually reduced the administrative fee for each share class of the Equity Fund by five basis points. The Trustees also considered information provided by Green Century regarding how it seeks to reinvest its higher fee revenues from economies of scale into augmenting the quality and sophistication of its business in support of the Funds. The Trustees concluded that, in light of all of the facts and circumstances, breakpoints were not warranted at this time, and that if assets increased significantly the Trustees would have opportunities to negotiate further breakpoints or other decreases in fees with the Adviser.
Based on a review of all factors deemed relevant the Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, concluded that the Advisory Agreements with respect to all of the Funds should be continued for an additional one-year period.
INVESTMENT SUBADVISORY AGREEMENTS
The Trustees, including the Independent Trustees voted to approve the continuance of the subadvisory agreement between the Trust, on behalf of the Balanced Fund, Green Century, and Trillium, as amended (the “Balanced Fund Subadvisory Agreement”), the continuance of the subadvisory agreements among Green Century, Northern Trust and the Trust, on behalf of the Equity Fund (the “Equity Fund Subadvisory Agreement”) and the International Fund (the “International Fund Subadvisory Agreement” and together with the Balanced Fund Subadvisory Agreement and the
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Equity Fund Subadvisory Agreement, the “Subadvisory Agreements”) at the November 14, 2024 meeting. In connection with their deliberations at the meetings, the Trustees considered, among other things, information provided by Trillium regarding the investment performance of the Balanced Fund, and information provided by Northern Trust regarding the investment performance of the Equity Fund (including the success with which the Equity Fund tracked the MSCI KLD Index) and the International Fund (including the success with which the International Fund tracked the MSCI World Index), the subadvisory fees paid to Trillium and Northern Trust, the profitability to Trillium of its subadvisory relationship to the Balanced Fund and financial information about Northern Trust. The Independent Trustees were assisted by independent counsel in considering these materials and the continuance of the Subadvisory Agreements. The Trustees considered all of the information provided to them by Trillium and Northern Trust, including information provided throughout the year. The Independent Trustees also received a memorandum from independent legal counsel advising them of their duties and responsibilities in connection with the contract review. The Trustees met with representatives of Trillium and Northern Trust at the Trustees’ November 14, 2024 meeting to discuss matters related to the continuation of the Subadvisory Agreements. Prior to voting, the Independent Trustees met with their independent counsel in private sessions at which no representatives of management were present. In approving the continuance of the Subadvisory Agreements the Trustees did not identify any single factor as determinative. Matters considered in connection with their approval of the Subadvisory Agreements included the following.
Nature, Quality, and Extent of Services Performed. The Trustees noted that under the terms of the Balanced Fund Subadvisory Agreement, Trillium provided the day-to-day portfolio management of the Balanced Fund, including determining asset and sector allocation; conducting securities selection and discovery; researching and analyzing environmental policies and practices of companies and implementing the Balanced Fund’s environmental screening criteria; managing the volatility, liquidity, risk, and turnover of the portfolio; and investing the portfolio consistent with the Balanced Fund’s investment objective and policies. The Trustees considered the professional expertise, tenure, and qualifications of the portfolio management team and noted that Trillium was devoted exclusively to environmentally and socially responsible investing and managed over $4 billion in assets. The Trustees also noted the recent staff turnover at Trillium and Trillium’s efforts to address the turnover as well as recent public announcements of potential corporate activity at Trillium’s Australian parent company. The Trustees also considered Trillium’s compliance record as well as the professional experience and responsiveness of Trillium’s compliance staff, as reported to them by the Trust’s chief compliance officer. The Trustees also considered Trillium’s leadership in social and environmental responsibility, including its shareholder advocacy efforts.
The Trustees noted that under the terms of the Equity Fund Subadvisory Agreement and the International Fund Subadvisory Agreement, Northern Trust provided the day-to-day portfolio management of each of the Equity Fund and the International Fund, making purchases and sales of portfolio securities consistent with each such Fund’s investment objective and policies and with changes to the applicable index. The Trustees considered the professional expertise, tenure, and qualifications of the portfolio management team as well as the team’s experience in passive management. The Trustees also considered Northern Trust’s handling of daily inflows and outflows, transaction costs, tracking error, and the portfolio turnover rates for each of the Equity Fund and the International Fund. The Trustees also considered Northern Trust’s compliance record as well as the professional experience and responsiveness of Northern Trust’s compliance staff, as reported to them by the Trust’s chief compliance officer.
Based on its review of all of the services provided and to be provided, the Trustees concluded that the nature, quality, and extent of services provided by Trillium and Northern Trust, respectively, supported the continuance of the Subadvisory Agreements.
Investment Performance. The Trustees reviewed and considered information regarding the investment performance of the Individual Investor Class of the Balanced Fund and comparative data with respect to the performance of mutual funds with similar investment objectives as well as other broad-based market indexes. The Trustees noted that as of
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periods ended July 31, 2024, the Balanced Fund’s five- and ten-year average annual returns outperformed the Lipper Index and its one-and three-year average annual returns underperformed the Lipper Index. The Trustees also noted that as of periods ended July 31, 2024, the Balanced Fund’s one-, three-, five- and ten-year average annual returns underperformed the Custom Index. After considering all the factors deemed appropriate, the Trustees concluded that the performance of the Balanced Fund together with Trillium’s investment process, philosophies and experience in environmental and sustainable investing, supported the continuance of the Balanced Fund Subadvisory Agreement.
With respect to the Equity Fund and the International Fund, the Trustees considered that due to each Fund’s passive investment strategy, the principal concern with regard to investment performance was the extent to which the Fund tracked its respective index. The Trustees reviewed the performance of the Individual Investor Class shares of the Equity Fund as compared to that of the MSCI KLD Index for the twelve-month period ended July 31, 2024, and noted that the Equity Fund’s performance underperformed that of the MSCI KLD Index. In particular, they observed that, after taking into consideration the fees and expenses of the Individual Investor Class shares, for the one-year period the Equity Fund’s performance was in line with that of the MSCI KLD Index. After considering all the factors deemed appropriate, the Trustees concluded that the performance of the Equity Fund together with Northern Trust’s investment process and experience in passive portfolio management supported the continuance of the Equity Fund Subadvisory Agreement. The Trustees reviewed the performance of the Individual Investor Class shares of the International Fund, exclusive of the expenses of the class, as compared to that of the MSCI World Index for the twelve-month period ended July 31, 2024, and noted that the Fund’s performance underperformed that of the MSCI World Index. The Trustees took into account that the non-U.S. nature of the securities in which the International Fund invests and the Fund’s fees and expenses have an impact on the Fund’s tracking error. After considering all the factors they deemed appropriate, the Trustees concluded that the performance of the International Fund together with Northern Trust’s investment process and experience in passive portfolio management supported the continuance of the International Fund Subadvisory Agreement.
Costs of Services Provided and Profitability. The Trustees considered that the subadvisory fees paid by Green Century to Trillium under the Balanced Fund Subadvisory Agreement were 0.40% of the value of the average daily net assets of the Balanced Fund up to $30 million, 0.35% of the value of the average daily net assets of the Balanced Fund in excess of $30 million up to $250 million, and 0.30% of the value of the average daily net assets of the Balanced Fund in excess of $250 million.
In evaluating the profitability of the Subadvisory Agreement to Trillium, the Trustees noted that based on information provided by Trillium, the relationship was profitable. The Trustees considered the financial resources Trillium dedicated and the other expenses Trillium incurred in providing subadvisory services to the Balanced Fund, including startup costs relating to the relationship, and additional personnel, legal, trading analysis and compliance costs required in the context of providing subadvisory services to a mutual fund. The Trustees took into account that Trillium is the investment adviser or sub-adviser to other mutual funds and to non-fund clients.
The Trustees considered that the subadvisory fees paid by Green Century to Northern Trust under the Equity Fund Subadvisory Agreement were effectively an annual fee equal to 0.10% of the value of the average daily net assets of the Equity Fund up to but not including $50 million, 0.05% of the value of the average daily net assets of the Equity Fund from and including $50 million up to but not including $100 million, and 0.03% of the value of the average daily net assets of the Equity Fund equal to or in excess of $100 million.
The Trustees considered that that the subadvisory fees paid by Green Century to Northern Trust under the International Fund Subadvisory Agreement were effectively an annual fee equal to 0.17% of the value of the average daily net assets of the Fund up to but not including $50 million, 0.12% of the average daily net assets of the Fund from and including $50 million up to but not including $100 million, and 0.08% of the average daily net assets of the Fund equal to or in excess of $100 million.
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The Trustees reviewed and considered an analysis of the subadvisory fees for the Equity Fund and the International Fund against comparative data for mutual funds subadvised by Northern Trust with a similar investment strategy and asset size. The Trustees noted that each Fund paid subadvisory fees at effective rates comparable to those paid to Northern Trust by funds having similar strategies that Northern Trust manages with similar levels of net assets. In evaluating the profitability of each of the Equity Fund Subadvisory Agreement and International Fund Subadvisory Agreement to Northern Trust, the Trustees noted that Northern Trust does not calculate earnings at the subadvisory client level.
The Trustees also considered that the subadvisory fees are paid by Green Century, and are not in addition to the advisory fees paid to Green Century by the Funds.
After reviewing the information described above, the Trustees concluded that the fees specified in the Subadvisory Agreements, taking into account the nature and quality of services provided and the costs of the services provided by Trillium and Northern Trust as applicable, supported the continuance of the Subadvisory Agreements.
Other Benefits. The Trustees evaluated potential other benefits that each of Trillium and Northern Trust may realize from its relationship with the applicable Fund(s). The Trustees considered the brokerage practices of Trillium, including the soft dollar commissions that were generated with respect to the Balanced Fund’s portfolio transactions. The Trustees considered that Trillium was not affiliated with a broker/dealer and therefore no benefit would be realized by Trillium through transactions with affiliated brokers. The Trustees also considered the brokerage practices of Northern Trust, including that Northern Trust does not trade for the Equity Fund or the International Fund through its affiliated broker. The Trustees also considered that no soft dollars have been paid in connection with Northern Trust’s management of the Equity Fund and the International Fund.
The Trustees further considered the reputational and other advantages that each of Trillium and Northern Trust may gain from its relationship with the applicable Fund(s), including that Northern Trust’s management of the Equity Fund and the International Fund will broaden its exposure to the socially responsible mutual fund market. The Trustees concluded that the benefits received by each of Trillium and Northern Trust were reasonable in the context of its relationship with the applicable Fund(s).
Economies of Scale. The Trustees also considered whether economies of scale would be realized by each of Trillium and Northern Trust as the Funds grow in asset size and the extent to which such economies of scale might be reflected in the subadvisory fees. They noted the relatively small size of each Fund (compared with similar funds in the industry) and the resultant difficulty of achieving meaningful economies of scale, despite the effects of significant increases in Fund and Trust assets over the past few years. They considered that if the assets were to increase further, Trillium and Northern Trust could have the opportunity to experience economies of scale. They also noted that, pursuant to the Balanced Fund Subadvisory Agreement, the overall subadvisory fees paid to Trillium by Green Century (out of the advisory fee that Green Century receives from the Fund, which is subject to a breakpoint) include breakpoints at $30 million and $250 million, so that fees as a percentage of net assets decrease modestly (from 40 basis points towards 30 basis points) as assets in the Balanced Fund increase. They also noted that pursuant to the Equity Fund Subadvisory Agreement and the International Fund Subadvisory Agreement, the overall subadvisory fees paid to Northern Trust by Green Century (out of the advisory fee that Green Century receives from the applicable Fund, which, for the Equity Fund, is subject to breakpoints) include breakpoints at $50 million and $100 million, so that fees as a percentage of net assets decrease as assets in the Equity Fund and the International Fund increase. The Trustees concluded that economies of scale could be realized as the Funds grow, and that the fee schedules as specified were appropriate, and supported the continuance of the Subadvisory Agreements.
Based on a review of all factors deemed relevant, the Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, concluded that all of the Subadvisory Agreements should be continued for an additional one-year period.
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Semi-Annual Report
INVESTMENT ADVISER AND ADMINISTRATOR
Green Century Capital Management, Inc.
114 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
1-800-93-GREEN
www.greencentury.com
info@greencentury.com
INVESTMENT SUBADVISER (Balanced Fund)
Trillium Asset Management, LLC
Two Financial Center
60 South Street, Suite 1100
Boston, MA 02111
INVESTMENT SUBADVISER (Equity Fund and International Fund)
Northern Trust Investments, Inc.
50 South LaSalle Street
Chicago, IL 60603
DISTRIBUTOR
Distributor Services, LLC (an affiliate of ACA Group)
140 E. 45th Street, 29th Floor
(2 Grand Central Tower)
New York, NY 10017
SUBADMINISTRATOR
UMB Fund Services, Inc.
235 West Galena Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212
CUSTODIAN
UMB Bank, n.a.
928 Grand Blvd
Kansas City, MO 64106
TRANSFER AGENT
Atlantic Shareholder Services, LLC
Three Canal Plaza
Portland, ME 04101
INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
KPMG LLP
Two Financial Center
60 South Street
Boston, MA 02111
January 31, 2025
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Item 8. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants for Open-End Management Investment Companies.
Not applicable.
Item 9. Proxy Disclosures for Open-End Management Investment Companies.
Not applicable.
Item 10. Remuneration Paid to Directors, Officers, and Others of Open-End Management Investment Companies.
The aggregate remuneration paid by the company during the period covered by the report is as follows:
(1) All directors and all members of any advisory board for regular compensation: $0 which is paid by the investment adviser.
(2) Each director and each member of an advisory board for special compensation: Not Applicable
(3) All officers: Not Applicable
(4) Each person of whom any officer or director of the Fund is an affiliated person: Investment adviser compensation included under Item 7.
Item 11. Statement Regarding Basis for Approval of Investment Advisory Contract.
REPORT OF TRUSTEES REGARDING 2024 CONTRACT APPROVAL
The Board of Trustees of the Green Century Funds (the “Board” or the “Trustees”) considered and approved the continuation of the Funds’ advisory and subadvisory agreements.
INVESTMENT ADVISORY AGREEMENTS
The Trustees, including the Trustees who are not “interested persons” (as defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended) (the “Independent Trustees”), voted to approve the continuance of the Investment Advisory Agreements, as amended (the “Advisory Agreements”) between the Trust, on behalf of each of the Balanced Fund, the Equity Fund, and the International Fund and Green Century Capital Management (“Green Century” or the “Adviser”) at the November 14, 2024 meeting. The Trustees considered, among other things, information provided by Green Century regarding the investment performance of each Fund; the expenses of each Fund and the advisory fee paid to Green Century by each Fund; and the profitability to Green Century of its advisory relationship with each Fund. The Independent Trustees were assisted by independent counsel in considering these materials and the approval and continuance of the Advisory Agreements. The Trustees considered all of the information provided to them by Green Century, including information provided at Board meetings throughout the year and in connection with other communications and discussions with Green Century. The Independent Trustees also received a memorandum from independent legal counsel advising them of their duties and responsibilities in connection with the review of the Advisory Agreements. The Trustees met with representatives of Green Century at the Trustees’ November 14, 2024 meeting to discuss matters related to the continuation of the Advisory Agreements. Prior to voting, the Independent Trustees met with their independent counsel in private sessions at which no representatives of management were present. In approving the Advisory Agreements, the Independent Trustees did not identify any single factor as determinative. Matters considered in connection with their approval of the Advisory Agreements included the following.
Nature, Quality, and Extent of Services Performed. The Trustees considered the scope and quality of the services performed for each of the Funds by the Adviser, including the resources dedicated by the Adviser.
With respect to the Balanced Fund, the services performed include the oversight and monitoring of the portfolio management and performance of the Balanced Fund; monitoring the implementation of the Balanced Fund’s environmental screens; implementing the environmental and other policies of the Trust by voting the Balanced Fund’s shareholder proxies independently and without reliance on third-party proxy advisory firms; and overall compliance oversight provided by the Adviser. The Trustees also considered the Adviser’s supervision of Trillium Asset Management, LLC (“Trillium”), the subadviser of the Balanced Fund, which performs the day-to-day portfolio management for the Fund.
With respect to the Equity Fund and the International Fund, these services include monitoring the Equity Fund’s performance and tracking error relative to the MSCI KLD 400 Social ex Fossil Fuels Index (the “MSCI KLD Index”); monitoring the International Fund’s performance and tracking error relative to the MSCI World ex USA SRI ex Fossil Fuels Index (the “MSCI World Index”); implementing the environmental and other policies of the Trust by voting the Equity Fund’s and the International Fund’s shareholder proxies independently and without reliance on third-party proxy advisory firms; and overall compliance oversight provided by the Adviser. The Trustees also considered the Adviser’s supervision of Northern Trust Investments, Inc. (“Northern Trust”), the subadviser of the Equity Fund and the International Fund, which performs day-to-day portfolio management for those two Funds.
In addition, the Trustees considered the Adviser’s mission to promote corporate environmental responsibility and to foster a sustainable economy, implemented in part by its commitment with respect to shareholder advocacy for more environmentally responsible policies and practices at major corporations. They took into account the not-for-profit ownership of the Adviser’s business, including its history of making grants to non-profit organizations out of its own
resources and the fact that any distribution of profits by the Adviser are paid to its 100% owner, Paradigm Partners, which is comprised entirely of nonprofit environmental and public interest advocacy organizations so that no for-profit corporations directly benefit from the distributed earned profits of the Adviser. The Trustees noted that the organizations under Paradigm Partners advocate for critical public health and environmental campaigns. The Trustees considered the Adviser’s distribution of profits in recent years and acknowledged the long-term commitment from Paradigm Partners over the 30+ years since the Trust was created. The Trustees also acknowledged their appreciation of the Funds’ new chief compliance officer and the effort undertaken by management to engage the new chief compliance officer. They also evaluated the administrative services provided by Green Century to the Funds under a separate agreement, including the coordination of the activities of the Funds’ other service providers. Based on its review of all of the services provided, the Trustees concluded that the nature, quality, and extent of services provided by the Adviser supported the continuance of the Advisory Agreements with respect to each Fund.
Investment Performance. With respect to the Balanced Fund, the Trustees reviewed and considered information regarding the investment performance of the Balanced Fund and comparative data with respect to the performance of other funds designated by Morningstar to have similar investment objectives as well as the Balanced Fund’s performance measured against the Lipper Balanced Fund Index (“Lipper Index”), which is a broad-based balanced fund market index, and against a custom balanced index (“Custom Index”) comprised of a 60% weighting in the S&P 1500 Index and a 40% weighting in the BofA Merrill Lynch 1-10 Year US Corporate and Government Index. In addition, the Trustees took into account the performance information they had been provided throughout the year. After weighing all the factors deemed appropriate, including the environmental screens applied to the Fund’s investment process, the Trustees concluded that the performance of the Balanced Fund supported the continuance of the Advisory Agreement with respect to the Balanced Fund.
With respect to the Equity Fund and the International Fund, the Trustees considered that due to each Fund’s passive investment strategy, the principal concern with regard to investment performance was the extent to which each Fund tracked its respective index. After considering all the factors deemed appropriate, the Trustees concluded that the performance of the Equity Fund and the International Fund supported the continuance of the respective Advisory Agreement.
The Costs of Services Provided and Profitability. The Trustees considered the costs of the services provided to the Funds and the profitability to the Adviser from its arrangements with the Funds.
The Trustees reviewed and considered an analysis of the advisory fees and total expenses ratios of each Fund and comparative data for multiple categories of mutual funds included in and as defined by Morningstar’s mutual fund database of thousands of mutual funds. In addition, the Trustees considered comparative advisory fee and expense ratio information provided by Green Century relating to a smaller set of peer funds identified by Green Century. The Trustees took into account, among other things, the distinct nature of the Funds as compared with peer funds, particularly with respect to the Funds’ social investing, the non-profit ownership of the Adviser, and the Adviser’s advocacy efforts and how those characteristics distinguished the Funds from their peers. The Trustees considered the size of Green Century and that Green Century was not at the same operational scale as most competitors, The Trustees also noted that, based on information provided by Green Century, competitors to the Equity Fund include actively managed funds in addition to index funds.
With respect to the Morningstar peer groups, for the Balanced Fund, the Trustees observed that, based on the information provided, the Fund’s advisory fee for the Individual Investor Class was higher than the average advisory fee for sustainable investment funds (by 11 basis points), sustainable investment balanced funds (by 15 basis points), all balanced funds (by 16 basis points) and balanced funds with assets between $300 million and $400 million (by 9 basis points). The Trustees also noted that the total expense ratio for the Individual Investor Class of the Balanced Fund was
effectively capped at 1.46% through the application of a “unitary administrative fee” paid to Green Century, and that the total expense ratio was higher than that of the average of sustainable investment funds (by 55 basis points), sustainable investment balanced funds (by 39 basis points), all balanced funds (by 53 basis points) and balanced funds with assets between $300 million and $400 million (by 45 basis points).
For the Equity Fund, the Trustees observed that, based on the information provided, the Fund’s advisory fee for the Individual Investor Class was lower than the average advisory fee for sustainable investment funds (by 30 basis points), sustainable investment large growth funds (by 36 basis points), all large growth funds (by 44 basis points), large growth funds with assets between $600 million and $700 million (by 31 basis points) and large growth index funds (by 28 basis points). The Trustees also noted that the total expense ratio of Individual Investor Class of the Equity Fund was effectively capped at 1.20% through the application of a “unitary administrative fee” paid to Green Century, and that effective March 1, 2024, Green Century had contractually reduced the administrative fee for each share class of the Equity Fund by five basis points. The Trustees noted that the total expense ratio was higher than the average of sustainable investment funds (by 29 basis points), sustainable investment large growth funds (by 17 basis points) and all large growth funds (by 3 basis points) and large growth funds with assets between $600 million and $700 million (by 18 basis points), and was lower than the average of large growth index funds (by 3 basis points).
For the International Fund, the Trustees noted that, based on the information provided, the Fund’s advisory fee for the Individual Investor Class was lower than that of the average advisory fee for sustainable investment funds (by 24 basis points), sustainable investment foreign large blend funds (by 32 basis points), all foreign large blend funds (by 33 basis points) and foreign large blend funds with assets between $100 million and $200 million (by 40 basis points) and was higher than the average advisory fee for foreign large blend index funds (by 13 basis points). The Trustees also noted that the total expense ratio of Individual Investor Class shares of the International Fund was effectively capped at 1.28% through the application of a “unitary administrative fee” paid to Green Century, and that the total expense ratio was higher than that of the average of sustainable investment funds (by 37 basis points), sustainable investment foreign large blend funds (by 31 basis points), all foreign large blend funds (by 23 basis points), foreign large blend index funds (by 90 basis points) and was lower than the average of foreign large blend funds with assets between $100 million and $200 million (by 9 basis points).
Green Century provided the Trustees with information relating to the profitability to Green Century of its advisory relationships to the Funds. The Trustees noted that, based on information provided by Green Century, the relationships to the Funds had been unprofitable for the earlier years of the Trust, though recent growth in Fund assets resulted in a profit for the Adviser’s fiscal year ended June 30, 2015 and increasing levels of profit for subsequent periods through the Adviser’s fiscal year ended June 30, 2024. The Trustees considered an analysis of the estimated Fund-by-Fund profitability for Green Century from the investment management and administrative service it provides to the Trust, which showed that the Adviser had made a profit from managing each Fund for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024. In this regard, the Independent Trustees considered the subadvisory fees and the other expenses incurred by the Adviser in providing advisory services to the Funds and the amount retained by Green Century out of the advisory fees. The Trustees also considered the fees received by Green Century for providing administrative services to the Funds and the expenses incurred in providing those services. In considering the cost allocation methodology used by Green Century, the Trustees took into consideration that the Adviser derives all of its revenues from the Funds and does not provide advisory or administrative services to other mutual funds or to non-mutual fund clients. The Trustees considered the costs and entrepreneurial risks assumed by the Adviser in connection with launching, branding and maintaining publicly-offered mutual funds and that the Adviser had been unprofitable for nine of the last twenty fiscal years. The Trustees took into account the operational enhancements that Green Century had indicated it would need to undertake in connection with the growth of Fund assets, the addition of new share classes, and the expansion into different types of assets. The Trustees also considered Green Century’s non-profit ownership structure, its cost structure and personnel needs, and its investment in shareholder advocacy that aligns with the Funds’ stated intention to promote greater
corporate environmental accountability. The Trustees also took into account that, as disclosed in the Funds’ prospectus, Green Century may provide grants and other funding to non-profit advocacy organizations to support their campaign work on wilderness protection, environmental protection, clean energy and other public benefit issues. After reviewing the information described above, the Trustees concluded that the fees specified in the Advisory Agreements, taking into account the costs of the services provided by the Adviser and the profitability to the Adviser of its relationships with the Funds, supported the continuance of the Advisory Agreements with respect to the Funds.
Other Benefits. With respect to fall-out benefits from the Adviser’s arrangements with the Funds, the Trustees considered that neither Green Century nor any affiliate of Green Century receives any brokerage fees, soft dollar benefits, liquidity rebates from electronic communications networks or payments for order flow from the trades executed for each Fund. The Trustees noted that Green Century does potentially benefit from its relationship with the Funds due to the Funds’ reputation as the first family of no-load environmentally responsible mutual funds and, more recently, as a pioneer in responsible and diversified fossil fuel free mutual funds. The Trustees considered that the association with the Funds supports Green Century’s own stated mission of advocating for corporate environmental responsibility. Further, pursuant to the Advisory Agreements, Green Century has reserved for itself the rights to the names “Green Century Funds” and any similar names; thus, Green Century may benefit in the future from developing other funds or investment products with the Green Century brand. The Trustees considered these fall-out benefits in context of the Adviser’s non-profit ownership structure and its history of providing grants and other funding to non-profit advocacy organizations. The Trustees concluded that the fall-out benefits to be realized by Green Century were appropriate.
Economies of Scale. The Trustees also considered whether economies of scale could be realized by the Adviser as the Funds grow in asset size and the extent to which such economies of scale were reflected in the level of fees charged. They noted the relatively small size of each Fund and the resultant difficulty of achieving meaningful economies of scale, though they took into account the effects of significant increases in Fund and Trust assets over the past few years, building upon what had historically been a very small base. They considered that if the assets were to increase further, the Funds could have the opportunity to experience economies of scale as fixed costs would become a smaller percentage of the Funds’ assets and some of the Funds’ service providers’ fees, as a percentage of the Funds’ assets, could decrease. The Trustees noted that the advisory fee structure for each of the Equity Fund and the Balanced Fund includes breakpoints that would cause the advisory fee to decrease as a percentage of net assets as the Fund increased in size, though under certain circumstances the structure of the Equity Fund’s unitary administrative fee arrangement with the Adviser offsets the effects of any advisory fee reduction on the total expense ratio. The Trustees noted that, effective March 1, 2024, Green Century had contractually reduced the administrative fee for each share class of the Equity Fund by five basis points. The Trustees also considered information provided by Green Century regarding how it seeks to reinvest its higher fee revenues from economies of scale into augmenting the quality and sophistication of its business in support of the Funds. The Trustees concluded that, in light of all of the facts and circumstances, breakpoints were not warranted at this time, and that if assets increased significantly the Trustees would have opportunities to negotiate further breakpoints or other decreases in fees with the Adviser.
Based on a review of all factors deemed relevant the Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, concluded that the Advisory Agreements with respect to all of the Funds should be continued for an additional one-year period.
INVESTMENT SUBADVISORY AGREEMENTS
The Trustees, including the Independent Trustees voted to approve the continuance of the subadvisory agreement between the Trust, on behalf of the Balanced Fund, Green Century, and Trillium, as amended (the “Balanced Fund Subadvisory Agreement”), the continuance of the subadvisory agreements among Green Century, Northern Trust and the Trust, on behalf of the Equity Fund (the “Equity Fund Subadvisory Agreement”) and the International Fund (the “International Fund Subadvisory Agreement” and together with the Balanced Fund Subadvisory Agreement and the
Equity Fund Subadvisory Agreement, the “Subadvisory Agreements”) at the November 14, 2024 meeting. In connection with their deliberations at the meetings, the Trustees considered, among other things, information provided by Trillium regarding the investment performance of the Balanced Fund, and information provided by Northern Trust regarding the investment performance of the Equity Fund (including the success with which the Equity Fund tracked the MSCI KLD Index) and the International Fund (including the success with which the International Fund tracked the MSCI World Index), the subadvisory fees paid to Trillium and Northern Trust, the profitability to Trillium of its subadvisory relationship to the Balanced Fund and financial information about Northern Trust. The Independent Trustees were assisted by independent counsel in considering these materials and the continuance of the Subadvisory Agreements. The Trustees considered all of the information provided to them by Trillium and Northern Trust, including information provided throughout the year. The Independent Trustees also received a memorandum from independent legal counsel advising them of their duties and responsibilities in connection with the contract review. The Trustees met with representatives of Trillium and Northern Trust at the Trustees’ November 14, 2024 meeting to discuss matters related to the continuation of the Subadvisory Agreements. Prior to voting, the Independent Trustees met with their independent counsel in private sessions at which no representatives of management were present. In approving the continuance of the Subadvisory Agreements the Trustees did not identify any single factor as determinative. Matters considered in connection with their approval of the Subadvisory Agreements included the following.
Nature, Quality, and Extent of Services Performed. The Trustees noted that under the terms of the Balanced Fund Subadvisory Agreement, Trillium provided the day-to-day portfolio management of the Balanced Fund, including determining asset and sector allocation; conducting securities selection and discovery; researching and analyzing environmental policies and practices of companies and implementing the Balanced Fund’s environmental screening criteria; managing the volatility, liquidity, risk, and turnover of the portfolio; and investing the portfolio consistent with the Balanced Fund’s investment objective and policies. The Trustees considered the professional expertise, tenure, and qualifications of the portfolio management team and noted that Trillium was devoted exclusively to environmentally and socially responsible investing and managed over $4 billion in assets. The Trustees also noted the recent staff turnover at Trillium and Trillium’s efforts to address the turnover as well as recent public announcements of potential corporate activity at Trillium’s Australian parent company. The Trustees also considered Trillium’s compliance record as well as the professional experience and responsiveness of Trillium’s compliance staff, as reported to them by the Trust’s chief compliance officer. The Trustees also considered Trillium’s leadership in social and environmental responsibility, including its shareholder advocacy efforts.
The Trustees noted that under the terms of the Equity Fund Subadvisory Agreement and the International Fund Subadvisory Agreement, Northern Trust provided the day-to-day portfolio management of each of the Equity Fund and the International Fund, making purchases and sales of portfolio securities consistent with each such Fund’s investment objective and policies and with changes to the applicable index. The Trustees considered the professional expertise, tenure, and qualifications of the portfolio management team as well as the team’s experience in passive management. The Trustees also considered Northern Trust’s handling of daily inflows and outflows, transaction costs, tracking error, and the portfolio turnover rates for each of the Equity Fund and the International Fund. The Trustees also considered Northern Trust’s compliance record as well as the professional experience and responsiveness of Northern Trust’s compliance staff, as reported to them by the Trust’s chief compliance officer.
Based on its review of all of the services provided and to be provided, the Trustees concluded that the nature, quality, and extent of services provided by Trillium and Northern Trust, respectively, supported the continuance of the Subadvisory Agreements.
Investment Performance. The Trustees reviewed and considered information regarding the investment performance of the Individual Investor Class of the Balanced Fund and comparative data with respect to the performance of mutual funds with similar investment objectives as well as other broad-based market indexes. The Trustees noted that as of
periods ended July 31, 2024, the Balanced Fund’s five- and ten-year average annual returns outperformed the Lipper Index and its one-and three-year average annual returns underperformed the Lipper Index. The Trustees also noted that as of periods ended July 31, 2024, the Balanced Fund’s one-, three-, five- and ten-year average annual returns underperformed the Custom Index. After considering all the factors deemed appropriate, the Trustees concluded that the performance of the Balanced Fund together with Trillium’s investment process, philosophies and experience in environmental and sustainable investing, supported the continuance of the Balanced Fund Subadvisory Agreement.
With respect to the Equity Fund and the International Fund, the Trustees considered that due to each Fund’s passive investment strategy, the principal concern with regard to investment performance was the extent to which the Fund tracked its respective index. The Trustees reviewed the performance of the Individual Investor Class shares of the Equity Fund as compared to that of the MSCI KLD Index for the twelve-month period ended July 31, 2024, and noted that the Equity Fund’s performance underperformed that of the MSCI KLD Index. In particular, they observed that, after taking into consideration the fees and expenses of the Individual Investor Class shares, for the one-year period the Equity Fund’s performance was in line with that of the MSCI KLD Index. After considering all the factors deemed appropriate, the Trustees concluded that the performance of the Equity Fund together with Northern Trust’s investment process and experience in passive portfolio management supported the continuance of the Equity Fund Subadvisory Agreement. The Trustees reviewed the performance of the Individual Investor Class shares of the International Fund, exclusive of the expenses of the class, as compared to that of the MSCI World Index for the twelve-month period ended July 31, 2024, and noted that the Fund’s performance underperformed that of the MSCI World Index. The Trustees took into account that the non-U.S. nature of the securities in which the International Fund invests and the Fund’s fees and expenses have an impact on the Fund’s tracking error. After considering all the factors they deemed appropriate, the Trustees concluded that the performance of the International Fund together with Northern Trust’s investment process and experience in passive portfolio management supported the continuance of the International Fund Subadvisory Agreement.
Costs of Services Provided and Profitability. The Trustees considered that the subadvisory fees paid by Green Century to Trillium under the Balanced Fund Subadvisory Agreement were 0.40% of the value of the average daily net assets of the Balanced Fund up to $30 million, 0.35% of the value of the average daily net assets of the Balanced Fund in excess of $30 million up to $250 million, and 0.30% of the value of the average daily net assets of the Balanced Fund in excess of $250 million.
In evaluating the profitability of the Subadvisory Agreement to Trillium, the Trustees noted that based on information provided by Trillium, the relationship was profitable. The Trustees considered the financial resources Trillium dedicated and the other expenses Trillium incurred in providing subadvisory services to the Balanced Fund, including startup costs relating to the relationship, and additional personnel, legal, trading analysis and compliance costs required in the context of providing subadvisory services to a mutual fund. The Trustees took into account that Trillium is the investment adviser or sub-adviser to other mutual funds and to non-fund clients.
The Trustees considered that the subadvisory fees paid by Green Century to Northern Trust under the Equity Fund Subadvisory Agreement were effectively an annual fee equal to 0.10% of the value of the average daily net assets of the Equity Fund up to but not including $50 million, 0.05% of the value of the average daily net assets of the Equity Fund from and including $50 million up to but not including $100 million, and 0.03% of the value of the average daily net assets of the Equity Fund equal to or in excess of $100 million.
The Trustees considered that that the subadvisory fees paid by Green Century to Northern Trust under the International Fund Subadvisory Agreement were effectively an annual fee equal to 0.17% of the value of the average daily net assets of the Fund up to but not including $50 million, 0.12% of the average daily net assets of the Fund from and including $50 million up to but not including $100 million, and 0.08% of the average daily net assets of the Fund equal to or in excess of $100 million.
The Trustees reviewed and considered an analysis of the subadvisory fees for the Equity Fund and the International Fund against comparative data for mutual funds subadvised by Northern Trust with a similar investment strategy and asset size. The Trustees noted that each Fund paid subadvisory fees at effective rates comparable to those paid to Northern Trust by funds having similar strategies that Northern Trust manages with similar levels of net assets. In evaluating the profitability of each of the Equity Fund Subadvisory Agreement and International Fund Subadvisory Agreement to Northern Trust, the Trustees noted that Northern Trust does not calculate earnings at the subadvisory client level.
The Trustees also considered that the subadvisory fees are paid by Green Century, and are not in addition to the advisory fees paid to Green Century by the Funds.
After reviewing the information described above, the Trustees concluded that the fees specified in the Subadvisory Agreements, taking into account the nature and quality of services provided and the costs of the services provided by Trillium and Northern Trust as applicable, supported the continuance of the Subadvisory Agreements.
Other Benefits. The Trustees evaluated potential other benefits that each of Trillium and Northern Trust may realize from its relationship with the applicable Fund(s). The Trustees considered the brokerage practices of Trillium, including the soft dollar commissions that were generated with respect to the Balanced Fund’s portfolio transactions. The Trustees considered that Trillium was not affiliated with a broker/dealer and therefore no benefit would be realized by Trillium through transactions with affiliated brokers. The Trustees also considered the brokerage practices of Northern Trust, including that Northern Trust does not trade for the Equity Fund or the International Fund through its affiliated broker. The Trustees also considered that no soft dollars have been paid in connection with Northern Trust’s management of the Equity Fund and the International Fund.
The Trustees further considered the reputational and other advantages that each of Trillium and Northern Trust may gain from its relationship with the applicable Fund(s), including that Northern Trust’s management of the Equity Fund and the International Fund will broaden its exposure to the socially responsible mutual fund market. The Trustees concluded that the benefits received by each of Trillium and Northern Trust were reasonable in the context of its relationship with the applicable Fund(s).
Economies of Scale. The Trustees also considered whether economies of scale would be realized by each of Trillium and Northern Trust as the Funds grow in asset size and the extent to which such economies of scale might be reflected in the subadvisory fees. They noted the relatively small size of each Fund (compared with similar funds in the industry) and the resultant difficulty of achieving meaningful economies of scale, despite the effects of significant increases in Fund and Trust assets over the past few years. They considered that if the assets were to increase further, Trillium and Northern Trust could have the opportunity to experience economies of scale. They also noted that, pursuant to the Balanced Fund Subadvisory Agreement, the overall subadvisory fees paid to Trillium by Green Century (out of the advisory fee that Green Century receives from the Fund, which is subject to a breakpoint) include breakpoints at $30 million and $250 million, so that fees as a percentage of net assets decrease modestly (from 40 basis points towards 30 basis points) as assets in the Balanced Fund increase. They also noted that pursuant to the Equity Fund Subadvisory Agreement and the International Fund Subadvisory Agreement, the overall subadvisory fees paid to Northern Trust by Green Century (out of the advisory fee that Green Century receives from the applicable Fund, which, for the Equity Fund, is subject to breakpoints) include breakpoints at $50 million and $100 million, so that fees as a percentage of net assets decrease as assets in the Equity Fund and the International Fund increase. The Trustees concluded that economies of scale could be realized as the Funds grow, and that the fee schedules as specified were appropriate, and supported the continuance of the Subadvisory Agreements.
Based on a review of all factors deemed relevant, the Trustees, including the Independent Trustees, concluded that all of the Subadvisory Agreements should be continued for an additional one-year period.
Item 12. Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures for Closed-End Management Investment Companies.
Not applicable.
Item 13. Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Management Investment Companies.
Not applicable.
Item 14. Purchases of Equity Securities by Closed-End Management Investment Company and Affiliated Purchasers.
Not applicable.
Item 15. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
There were no material changes to the procedures by which shareholders may recommend nominees to the registrant’s Board of Trustees.
Item 16. Controls and Procedures.
| (a) | Based on an evaluation of the disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the “Disclosure Controls”) as of a date within 90 days of the filing date (the “Filing Date”) of this Form N-CSR (the “Report”), the registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded that the Disclosure Controls are effectively designed to ensure that information that is required to be disclosed by the registrant in the Report is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms, including ensuring that information required to be disclosed in the Report is accumulated and communicated to the registrant’s management, including the registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures. |
| (b) | There were no changes in the registrant’s internal controls over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the Investment Company Act of 1940) that occurred during the fiscal period covered by this report that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting. |
Item 17. Disclosure of Securities Lending Activities for Closed-End Management Investment Companies.
Not applicable.
Item 18. Recovery of Erroneously Awarded Compensation.
| (a) | Not applicable. |
| (b) | Not applicable. |
Item 19. Exhibits
| (a) | (1) Code of Ethics: Incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Form N-CSR filed on October 7, 2013. |
(2) Not applicable.
(4) Not applicable.
(5) Not applicable.
| (b) |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
| Green Century Funds |
| /s/ Leslie Samuelrich |
| Leslie Samuelrich |
| President and Principal Executive Officer |
| April 3, 2025 |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
| /s/ Leslie Samuelrich |
| Leslie Samuelrich |
| President and Principal Executive Officer |
| April 3, 2025 |
| /s/ Matthew Dunlap |
| Matthew Dunlap |
| Treasurer and Principal Financial Officer |
| April 3, 2025 |