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LOUISVILLE SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL INC

LOUISVILLE SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,806 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ($32,100). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$72k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$80k
Net assets
$3k
6/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Louisville Sustainability Council Inc does

Mission

The louisville sustainability council is a leading conduit between holistic sustainable impact and a resilient louisville community. Leveraging education programs, resources, and events, we strive to inspire creative problem solving, improve public educatoin, and privide equitable, accessible resources. The lsc's mission-centric work strategically connects and connects and convenes diverse organizations and businesses with the shared goald of creating a more just and sustainable future for our louisville community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The louisville sustainability council is a leading conduit between holistic sustainable impact and a resilient louisville community. Leveraging education programs, resources, and events, we strive to inspire creative problem solving, improve public educatoin, and privide equitable, accessible resources. The lsc's mission-centric work strategically connects and connects and convenes diverse organizations and businesses with the shared goald of creating a more just and sustainable future for our louisville community.

    $107,392 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $107,392.

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 ($42k) Expenses 100 ($55k) Net assets 100 ($4k)2018 Revenue 130 ($54k) Expenses 83 ($46k) Net assets 297 ($13k)2019 Revenue 117 ($49k) Expenses 66 ($36k) Net assets 587 ($25k)2020 Revenue 134 ($56k) Expenses 91 ($50k) Net assets 732 ($32k)2024 Revenue 173 ($72k) Expenses 254 ($139k) Net assets 71 ($3k)
20172018201920202024
Revenue (173)Expenses (254)Net assets (71)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 2018 to 2019, from $17k to $32k (+88%).

$9k
$17k
$32k
$35k
$13k
20172018201920202024
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
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of LOUISVILLE SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$13k
’17
$8k
’18
$13k
’19
$6k
’20
−$67k
’24
11
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

Meika Finger-Gray

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

201720182019
Listed141714
Joined·+10+0
No longer listed·73
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $23k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 LOUISVILLE SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL 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

LOUISVILLE SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

47% 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 LOUISVILLE SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL INC.

40%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 35% · 2022 47% · 2023 74% — 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

40% of LOUISVILLE SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

100% of LOUISVILLE SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

KY

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

’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LOUISVILLE SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,152 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−93% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · top quartile

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.

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds LOUISVILLE SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL INC?
LOUISVILLE SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,806 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ($32,100). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LOUISVILLE SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $79,806 in grants to LOUISVILLE SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LOUISVILLE SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL INC?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC is the largest funder on record, with $32,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LOUISVILLE SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 8 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