Florida · Nonprofit
Citizens for a Sustainable Future
Citizens for a Sustainable Future (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $548,149 to it, the largest being SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ($250,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $537k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $548k
- Net assets
- $253k
What Citizens for a Sustainable Future does
Mission
Citizens for a Sustainable Future is a Tallahassee-based organization that raises awareness within African American communities about cultural, economic and environmental sustainability and serves as a conduit for further civic action and education. CSF promotes 8 sustainable living practices to create more resilient and sustainable Black communities through local workshops and collaboration with other local, regional, and national organizations: Growing Your Own Food Healthy Eating Water Filtration and Conservation Energy Efficiency Reusing and Recycling Collective Civic Engagement Cooperative Economics Breastfeeding/Breastfeeding Support
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Expanded climate advocacy efforts throughout the state of Florida to bring awareness on the importance of sustainable lifestyle practices.
$141,662 spentof which $333,399 as grants$59,328 earned by the program58% of program spendingHosted 2nd annual Brilliant Resilience summer camp to introduce children in 3rd to 8th grade to STEM concepts and practices.
$71,210 spentof which $109,233 as grants$1,879 earned by the program29% of program spendingHosted the 4th Annual Tallahassee Earth Day Festival to bring awareness to sustainable living practices.
$32,066 spentof which $10,000 as grants$19,987 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $244,938.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $19k to $276k (+1340%).
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 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of Citizens for a Sustainable Future’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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
Goliath Davis IV
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $43k → $92k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Citizens for a Sustainable Future’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
Citizens for a Sustainable Future leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 Citizens for a Sustainable Future.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 81% · 2023 92% — 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
Citizens for a Sustainable Future draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Citizens for a Sustainable Future runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Citizens for a Sustainable Future
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Citizens for a Sustainable Future: 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 Citizens for a Sustainable Future?
- Citizens for a Sustainable Future (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $548,149 to it, the largest being SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ($250,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Citizens for a Sustainable Future have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $548,149 in grants to Citizens for a Sustainable Future, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Citizens for a Sustainable Future?
- SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Citizens for a Sustainable Future find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 6 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