Washington · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,576,600 to it, the largest being SCAN DESIGN FOUNDATION BY INGER & JENS BRUUN ($360,100). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE has grown faster than half of the 4,260 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,260 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Treeline Foundationshared funders
- Illinois Science and Energy Innovation Foundationportfolio match
- International Sustainable Energy Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 8% · 2020 1% · 2021 20% · 2022 7% · 2023 56% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $143k → $304k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE’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
CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 35% · 2020 41% · 2021 26% · 2022 35% · 2023 56% — growing more concentrated.
“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
67% of CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
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
91% of CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $225k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Treeline Foundationshared fundersWA · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
- Illinois Science and Energy Innovation Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Sustainable Energy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Recycling Partnership Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clean Air Task Force Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alex C Walker Educational & Charitableportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clean Future Forum Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for Neighborhood Technologyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- B Questportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chicago Food Policy Action Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternativesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Building Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $143k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO FOR-PROFIT SUBRECIPIENT$63k
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SERVICES$41k
- PROF DEV FOREIGN TUITION & REGISTRATION$22k
- PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$13k
- ADVERTISE PUBLICITY PUBLISH/PRINT SRVS$5k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE?
- CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,576,600 to it, the largest being SCAN DESIGN FOUNDATION BY INGER & JENS BRUUN ($360,100). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,576,600 in grants to CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE?
- SCAN DESIGN FOUNDATION BY INGER & JENS BRUUN is the largest funder on record, with $360,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 12funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing