Indiana · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING INC
CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING INC (Indiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,069 to it, the largest being The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc ($24,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $138k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $56k
- Net assets
- $209k
What Center for Sustainable Living Inc does
Mission
To promote public interest in the general improvement of the environment;initiate and direct projects that make our communities environmentally healthy with attractive places to live; conduct ongoing educational programs to further these purposes and to provide support to groups with similar purposes
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Indiana Solar for All (ISFA) Volunteers provide qualified low income homeowners with training and guidance to install a small DIY solar power system for their own home, and other energy improvements
$26,811 spentof which $208 as grants$24,202 earned by the program31% of program spendingBloomington Community Bike Project (BCBP) promotes bicycle riding, educates on bike maintenance, riding skills, and safety, while also distributing bicycle safety equipment.
$12,186 spent$52,993 earned by the program14% of program spendingThe Overlook Project is a collective of artists, inventors, non- profits, community organizers creating spaces for radical organizing, learning, gardening, public events, non-profit efforts and open discussion.
$18,502 spent$36,257 earned by the program22% of program spendingOther program expenses
$27,884 spent33% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $85,383.
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 2023 to 2024, from $169k to $209k (+24%).
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: 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
103% of CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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.
Board chair
Stephen Hale
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5 → $26k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 LIVING INC’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 LIVING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 68% — diversifying over time.
“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.
Where its funders are
57% of CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $24k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Indiana funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 LIVING INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING INC
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING INC: 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 LIVING INC?
- CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING INC (Indiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,069 to it, the largest being The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc ($24,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $56,069 in grants to CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING INC?
- The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $24,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 4 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