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SOUTH BAY SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES NETWORK INC

SOUTH BAY SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES NETWORK INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,099 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($107,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$245k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$127k
Net assets
$6k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 58%
01What it does

What South Bay Sustainable Communities Network Inc does

Mission

South bay substainable communities network is to build healthy and sustainable communities by encouraging people to create lasting change in their daily lives through education and community engagement in environmental conservation, neighborhood composting, and sustainable urban farming.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. South bay substainable communities network is to build healthy and sustainable communities by encouraging people to create lasting change in their daily lives through education and community engagement in environmental conservation, neighborhood composting, and sustainable urban farming.

    $221,550 spent$244,904 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $221,550.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($201k) Expenses 100 ($136k) Net assets 100 ($70k)2024 Revenue 75 ($150k) Expenses 149 ($204k) Net assets 23 ($16k)2025 Revenue 122 ($245k) Expenses 187 ($255k) Net assets 8 ($6k)
202320242025
Revenue (122)Expenses (187)Net assets (8)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 2023 to 2024, from $70k to $16k (−77%).

$70k
$16k
$16k
202320242025
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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

84% of SOUTH BAY SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$64k
’23
−$54k
’24
−$10k
’25
0.7
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

Patti Huffman

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20232025
Listed54
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $62 → $117k.

Funder
'22
'23
'25*
total
funders
1
3
1

3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SOUTH BAY SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES NETWORK 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

SOUTH BAY SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES NETWORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% 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 SOUTH BAY SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES NETWORK INC.

84%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 91% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of SOUTH BAY SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES NETWORK INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $127k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SOUTH BAY SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES NETWORK INC has grown faster than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOUTH BAY SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES NETWORK INC?
SOUTH BAY SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES NETWORK INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,099 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($107,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SOUTH BAY SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES NETWORK INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $127,099 in grants to SOUTH BAY SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES NETWORK INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTH BAY SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES NETWORK INC?
THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $107,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTH BAY SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES NETWORK INC find more funders?
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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 2023–2025), 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