Washington · Nonprofit
Foundation for Sustainable Community
Foundation for Sustainable Community (Washington) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $667,612 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Snohomish County ($159,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $668k
- Net assets
- $-189098
What Foundation for Sustainable Community does
Mission
We empower people to sustainably grow food in and near the site by supplementing curriculum and nutritution in school and communities. Farmer frog mentors students families and their communities offering a hand-up for strong education ending child hunger and poverty and encouraging good health. We continued to distribute food and ppe through our large scale distribution program started in 2020.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The nonprofit organization continued to provide a diverse array of services to the community. These services include food distribution educational programs wildlife conservation and agrotourism programs. In August the organization underwent another headquarters relocation this time with the headquarters closing. Team was reduced to volunteers only working mobile. Operations were significantly affected from the 2025 Washington Flood Natural Disaster damaging nearly all property and ceased by the end of the year.
$1,509,173 spentof which $588,695 as grants$1,439,756 earned by the program100% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,509,173.
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 2019 to 2020, from $10k to $666k (+6486%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 26% · 2023 31% · 2024 14% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Foundation for Sustainable Community’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income fell $155k → $66k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 Foundation for Sustainable Community’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 17 funders by total. 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
Foundation for Sustainable Community has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
90% 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 Foundation for Sustainable Community.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 87% · 2021 23% · 2022 73% · 2023 53% — 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
25% of Foundation for Sustainable Community's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 29% 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
Foundation for Sustainable Community draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $318k 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
Foundation for Sustainable Community has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% 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 Foundation for Sustainable Community: 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 Foundation for Sustainable Community?
- Foundation for Sustainable Community (Washington) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $667,612 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Snohomish County ($159,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Foundation for Sustainable Community have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $667,612 in grants to Foundation for Sustainable Community, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Foundation for Sustainable Community?
- Community Foundation of Snohomish County is the largest funder on record, with $159,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Foundation for Sustainable Community 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 17 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