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ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY

ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,020 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($66,667). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2021
$501k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$172k
Net assets
$14k
2/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What Alliance for Sustainability does

Mission

To co-create sustainability on a personal organizational and planetary level. We have long defined sustainability as being "Ecologically sound economically viable socially just and humane and embodying our highest values in terms of how we treat people animals and the planet."

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.

Program

The SHE Kindness Campaign was created to bring about personal and organizational transformation impactful campaigns and public policies addressing key tipping points for fundamental system change. In addition to an updated website a weekly e-Newsletter and social media it has 4 elements: 1 Our Dec 2020 Declaration of Co-creation and Interdependence our bold statement of being & action that we encourage others to sign 2 Our High impact Campaigns and Public Policy with our partners; 3 Our SHE Kindness Business Program launched in April 2021 with a Target Corporation Earth Month presentation for several hundred staff and 4 Our SHE Kindness School Program a youth leadership development education and action program in which we do presentations to students from 20 middle and high schools 10 of which are in under-served communities to take action at school home and in the community. The Alliance is powered by diverse dynamic college students and graduates from MN and across the country who share their passion and commitment in helping to lead all aspects of the Alliance's programs. The Alliance has developed a partnership with benefit business Inclusivi-tee in which we promote the new…

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($55k) Expenses 100 ($72k) Net assets -887 ($-125411)2021 Revenue 912 ($501k) Expenses 761 ($549k) Net assets 100 ($14k)
20172021
Revenue (912)Expenses (761)Net assets (100)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars.

$33k
$39k
20172021
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

−$17k
’17
−$48k
’21
0.1
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $3k.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

49% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY.

39%
largest funder
75%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 83% · 2019 55% · 2020 100% · 2021 55% · 2022 100% · 2023 67% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

17% of ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 20% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 5 states in all.

MN
WI
CA
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Minnesota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 3%Fundraising 3%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY?
ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,020 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($66,667). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $172,020 in grants to ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY?
IMPACTASSETSINC is the largest funder on record, with $66,667 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing