Washington · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,616,100 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.
- Revenue FY2024
- $862k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $398k
What Center for Sustainable Infrastructure does
Mission
To catalyze state-of-the-art sustainable infrastructure solutions that help communities of every kind thrive economically, socially, and environmentally.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Innovation lab workshops and consulting, blueprint reports, and kowledge exchanges
$451,860 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $451,860.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $10k to $201k (+2011%).
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
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $143k → $304k.
2 of 13 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 22% 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; 62% 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
89% 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 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.
Against its field
CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE has grown faster than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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
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 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE?
- CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,616,100 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 13 organizations giving $1,616,100 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.
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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 13 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