Oregon · Nonprofit
International Living Future Institute
International Living Future Institute (Oregon) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,111,612 to it, the largest being FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($5,400,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.9M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $9.1M
- Net assets
- $-906289
What International Living Future Institute does
Mission
To lead & support the transformation toward communities that are socially just, culturally rich & ecologically restorative.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Living building challenge around the world: the living building challenge is the world's most advanced and holistic green building certification standard, which includes requirements around energy, water, toxic materials, social justice, and health & wellness. As of december 31, 2021 we had 789 buildings in 30+ countries on 6 continents pursuing the challenge. These projects range from affordable housing, higher education, and municipal projects, to manufacturing, retail, and healthcare facilities. Buildings contribute 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions annually, and the challenge offers a solution to the world to build a socially just, culturally rich, ecologically restorative future.
$447,142 spent$404,084 earned by the program9% of program spendingConferences and events: the International Living Future Institute presents the world's premier events and conferences for the global green building community. The annual living future conference and multiple additional events on topics ranging from global corporate climate commitments to resilient design for a changing world, draw thousands of participants from around the world online and in person.
$1,464,342 spent$985,345 earned by the program30% of program spendingLiving product challenge and declare: the living product challenge and declare product transparency labels are the world's most sustainable product solutions, encouraging manufacturers to create products that address climate change, human health, and toxic materials. Hundreds of products used in construction, from manufacturers around the world, carry declare labels, which disclose all of their ingredients and enables architects, designers, and builders to choose sustainable products for all their projects.
$1,403,511 spent$1,434,952 earned by the program29% of program spendingIn addition to its flagship program, the living building challenge, the institute also runs the zero energy and zero carbon program in support of addressing climate change due to fossil fuel use. It also oversees a sustainable community certification standard (living community challenge), transparent workplace employment practice labeling program (just), a professional membership program (living future membership), a book publishing program (ecotone publishing), a professional credential (living future accreditation), and a catalog of online courses.
$1,537,894 spent$785,469 earned by the program32% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,852,889.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.0M to $396k (−62%).
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: 2017 6% · 2018 5% · 2020 16% · 2021 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of International Living Future Institute’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Lindsay Baker
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $1.3M → $925k.
7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 International Living Future Institute’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
International Living Future Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 59% · 2019 63% · 2020 44% · 2021 66% · 2022 66% · 2023 70% — 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.
How long its funders stay
22% of International Living Future Institute's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
International Living Future Institute draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $423k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
International Living Future Institute's revenue grew 30% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding International Living Future Institute receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SERVICES$3k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like International Living Future Institute
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.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Cascadia Green Building Council · exempt
- Cascadia Green Building Council 2008 Society CA NFP Cert · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for International Living Future Institute: 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 International Living Future Institute?
- International Living Future Institute (Oregon) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,111,612 to it, the largest being FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($5,400,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does International Living Future Institute have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $9,111,612 in grants to International Living Future Institute, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of International Living Future Institute?
- FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like International Living Future Institute 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 27 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