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Damascus Citizens for Sustainability Inc

Damascus Citizens for Sustainability Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $383,559 to it, the largest being MWC FOUNDATION INC #0726315 ($125,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$78k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$384k
Net assets
$62k
8/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 54%
01What it does

What Damascus Citizens for Sustainability Inc does

Mission

The organization is a collaborative endeavor to preserve and protect clear air, land and water as a civil and basic human right in the face of the threat posed by the shale gas extraction industry.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. DCS has been instrumental, since its 2008 inception, in drawing attention to drilling and infrastructure health impacts. The organization continued its public awareness campaign to educate people about the hydraulic fracturing process and related activities by providing assistance to over 40 communities in 9 states. This includes answering questions, and providing information (including detailed scientific data), so that communities have accurate information to counter the gas-oil-infrastructure industries many inaccurate claims and positions. By supplying grassroots groups with reliable information and data, it enables these groups to provide better, more effective community education. This results in the public making wiser and more informed personal and land use decisions. Continuing its focus on the public health impacts of gas and oil drilling, DCS completed the third in a series of fold-out posters showing the environmental and human health impacts of gas oil drilling with hydraulic fracturing. This poster called Upper Ohio Basin in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia Whats In The Water was printed and started distribution to groups in 2022 and continued into 2023.

    $62,201 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $62,201.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($170k) Expenses 100 ($159k) Net assets 100 ($61k)2018 Revenue 142 ($241k) Expenses 99 ($157k) Net assets 238 ($145k)2019 Revenue 74 ($126k) Expenses 106 ($169k) Net assets 168 ($102k)2020 Revenue 71 ($121k) Expenses 82 ($130k) Net assets 154 ($93k)2021 Revenue 65 ($111k) Expenses 75 ($119k) Net assets 139 ($85k)2022 Revenue 57 ($96k) Expenses 76 ($121k) Net assets 99 ($60k)2023 Revenue 58 ($99k) Expenses 55 ($87k) Net assets 119 ($72k)2024 Revenue 46 ($78k) Expenses 55 ($88k) Net assets 102 ($62k)
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Revenue (46)Expenses (55)Net assets (102)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $76k to $155k (+103%).

$76k
$155k
$112k
$104k
$96k
$71k
$72k
$65k
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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
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Damascus Citizens for Sustainability Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,989 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
’17
$84k
’18
−$43k
’19
−$8k
’20
−$9k
’21
−$24k
’22
$12k
’23
−$10k
’24
5.7
months of
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

Barbara Arrindell

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed910889677
Joined·+1+0+0+1+0+1+0
No longer listed·0200300
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $38k → $53k.

3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Damascus Citizens for Sustainability 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

Damascus Citizens for Sustainability Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

33%
largest funder
74%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 47% · 2019 58% · 2020 38% · 2021 50% · 2022 50% · 2023 48% — 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.

How long its funders stay

63% of Damascus Citizens for Sustainability Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

Damascus Citizens for Sustainability Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 5 states in all.

NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA

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

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’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Damascus Citizens for Sustainability Inc's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−13% · below the median
Months of reserve5.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−11% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 19%Fundraising 10%

Governance

7
board members
86%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

63%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

NY
PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Damascus Citizens for Sustainability Inc?
Damascus Citizens for Sustainability Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $383,559 to it, the largest being MWC FOUNDATION INC #0726315 ($125,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Damascus Citizens for Sustainability Inc have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $383,559 in grants to Damascus Citizens for Sustainability Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Damascus Citizens for Sustainability Inc?
MWC FOUNDATION INC #0726315 is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Damascus Citizens for Sustainability Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2024), 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