Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,664 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $33k
- Net assets
- $683k
What Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure does
Mission
To develop and make available, in the public domain, a sustainability rating tool to measure the sustainability of non-habitable infrastructures, to make available a training and credential program to improve user competency in the application of the tool, to make available an independent third party program to verify, upon application, the results of self assessment activities on specific infrastructure project.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The envision sustainability professional credential program is based on a seven-hour on-line course and subsequent examination.
$1,496,049 spent$1,353,614 earned by the program58% of program spendingVerification: the envision project verification program accepted 61 project registrations for third-party verification and reported 34 awards.
$682,907 spent$617,889 earned by the program27% of program spendingMembership dues are in two groups: charter and sustaining. Sustaining membership refers to companies, associations, organizations, agencies, and individuals who provide input annually to the institute and endorses the institute (isi) and its projects and programs. The charter membership refers to companies, associations, organizations, agencies, and individuals that want to be associated with the founding of isi and that joined isi within the first three years of its origin. Charter members will be invited to serve on the isi council.
$334,219 spent$302,399 earned by the program13% of program spendingOther program
$59,685 spent$54,003 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,572,860.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $3.9M (+245%).
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 7% · 2021 7% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Anthony Kane
President & CEO
Board chair
Erin Cooke
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10 → $69.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE’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 SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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
92% 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 SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
92% of INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE has grown faster than half of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE: 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 SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE?
- INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,664 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $32,664 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 3 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