Oregon · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION AND ECOLOGY
INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION AND ECOLOGY (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $417,500 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($390,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $130k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $418k
- Net assets
- $82k
What Institute for Sustainability Education and Ecology does
Mission
The Our Future Program is a network of high school students In Oregon doing internships in leadership focused on Climate Action and Climate Justice
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Students learning leadership skills so they will be having greater empowerment and awareness in climate action in their schools while building a statewide network to further their efforts
$50,000 spent49% of program spendingContract with Lane County for doing green certification for our local schools in Lane County and research with Oregon Dept of Forestry
$22,900 spent22% of program spendingStudents developed greater knowledge of Climate Change developed cafeteria waste programs in their individual schools and worked on how the legislative process works and did testimony at Oregon State Capital and helped pass a bill that will require climate education in all Oregon schools K-12
$30,000 spent29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $102,900.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $137k to $73k (−47%).
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.
82% of INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION AND ECOLOGY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (76% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Mel Bankoff
Executive Director
Board chair
Tara Nuth Kajtaniak
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $48k → $80k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION AND ECOLOGY’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
INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION AND ECOLOGY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION AND ECOLOGY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 84% — 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.
Where its funders are
93% of INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION AND ECOLOGY'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 $28k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $390k 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
INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION AND ECOLOGY's revenue fell 21% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 297 social science nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION AND ECOLOGY
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
78%
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 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION AND ECOLOGY: 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 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION AND ECOLOGY?
- INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION AND ECOLOGY (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $417,500 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($390,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION AND ECOLOGY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $417,500 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION AND ECOLOGY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION AND ECOLOGY?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $390,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION AND ECOLOGY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 2 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