Wisconsin · Nonprofit
SUSTAIN DANE INC
SUSTAIN DANE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $375,532 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC ($86,768). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $946k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $376k
- Net assets
- $347k
What Sustain Dane Inc does
Mission
Sustain dane seeks to inspire, connect, and support people to accelerate sustainable actions for community wellbeing.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Naturally occurring affordable housing (noah) - through our noah project and the efficiency navigator, we engage with agency stakeholders, property owners and managers, community-based organizations and residents to understand the challenges and opportunities to make the noah stock in dane county more sustainable. We are offering the efficiency navigator program to help small to medium-sized multifamily housing become more efficient, affordable, and resilient while reducing operating costs for owners and energy cost burden for residents. The goals of the program are to address housing resilience, equity, and climate change. We provide complimentary efficiency assessments and step-by-step navigation of implementation. The program is for renter-occupied buildings with rents affordable to residents at or below 80% area median income. The housing stock is known as naturally occurring affordable housing (noah). The program also includes bi-lingual energy efficiency leaders, multifamily solar opportunities and healthy building elements, electrification, the relay network, a diverse contractor accelerator program.
$508,702 spent$456,365 earned by the program61% of program spendingSustainable communities and network - sustainable communities and network is a learning group of programs and people who care about holistic sustainability (environmental health, equity and social wellbeing, and a just economy). Via community programs and the network, sustain dane shares skills and strategies, research findings, and local case studies. There are quarterly breakfast meetings, monthly newsletters, networking opportunities, membership, and online resources. Other work includes the community recycling program, climate action commitments, partnerships with schools on food waste reduction, and sustainability art. It also includes sustain dane's sustainability stories platform, which amplifies the voices of people from different backgrounds, races, genders, and geographies that are working on and want to inspire others to build a more sustainable and inclusive community.
$188,166 spent$43,667 earned by the program23% of program spendingBusiness outreach and projects - accelerate sustainability workshop (asw) is a one year, fully-customizable program for businesses and organizations that wish to reduce their environmental impact, while saving costs and creating a healthier and more engaging workplace and community. Asw builds on the success of sustain dane's mpower program. Business and organizations have completed more than 800 sustainability projects related to energy efficiency and clean energy, sustainable food systems, alternative transportation, equity, water or waste reduction, community engagement, and more.
$76,854 spent$2,287 earned by the program9% of program spendingSustain dane summit - an annual conference that convenes sustainability activists who embrace holistic sustainability and community well-being, and desire to create positive change in the greater madison region. Approximately 250 individuals convened to listen, learn, and share with one another. The summit was deemed successful based upon metrics achieved and participant feedback.
$55,687 spent$7,035 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $829,409.
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 2023 to 2024, from $524k to $407k (−22%).
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 25% · 2018 17% · 2019 21% · 2020 25% · 2021 18% · 2022 0% · 2023 8% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of SUSTAIN DANE INC’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. 3 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
Claire Schaefer
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $17k → $81k.
1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 SUSTAIN DANE 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
SUSTAIN DANE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
90% 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 SUSTAIN DANE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 54% · 2019 49% · 2020 37% · 2021 70% · 2022 56% · 2023 35% — 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
67% of SUSTAIN DANE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% 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
65% of SUSTAIN DANE INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68 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
SUSTAIN DANE INC has grown faster than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SUSTAIN DANE INC
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 SUSTAIN DANE INC: 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 SUSTAIN DANE INC?
- SUSTAIN DANE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $375,532 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC ($86,768). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUSTAIN DANE INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $375,532 in grants to SUSTAIN DANE INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUSTAIN DANE INC?
- COMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC is the largest funder on record, with $86,768 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUSTAIN DANE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 11 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