California · Nonprofit
Sustainable Cotton Project
Sustainable Cotton Project (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $68 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($68). 1 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 FY2020
- $-38
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $68
- Net assets
- $90k
What Sustainable Cotton Project does
Mission
The Organization's primary purpose is to conduct research and educational activities with regard to the sustainable production, manufacturing and use practices throughout the cotton value chain in order to create a healthy industry for growers, their communities, manufacturers, retailers and users of cotton products.Since 2010, the organization has added the sustainable production of alfalfa and almonds to the organization, encouraging the use of biologically based production practices in these two crops as well as cotton. Since 1996, SCP has brought farmers, manufacturers, and consumers together. SCP's guiding philosophy of "cooperation for a change" fosters information-sharing among these groups to develop a Cleaner Cotton industry. SCP provides growers with information about biological farming techniques and educates the public about the importance of reducing chemical use in fiber and food production and supporting local farmers.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
SCPs grant with Californias State Water Resources Control Board ended on June 30, 2019. The purpose of the grant was to help farmers implement agricultural Best Management Practices, including integrated pest management practices in the cultivation of cotton, alfalfa, and almonds, and to reduce the use of diazinon and chlorpyrifos. The Organization continues to provide information about California cotton and cotton production and answers questions about the Cleaner Cotton industry and Cleaner Cotton fiber availability. Textile and apparel brands continue to be interested in this product, and SCP plans to continue marketing the fiber. SCP was able to help the two retiring growers from Windfall Farms sell some of their stored colored cotton fiber along with a small hand-gin that had been purchased for the processing of the colored cotton. The Organizations Executive Director participated in several webinars on cotton in California and participated in discussions on a Healthy Soils project that has several former SCP growers as participants. Plans for 2020 included a cotton farm tour to be sponsored by the California College of the Arts (San Francisco). Due to Covid-19 and…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 2019 to 2020, from $105k to $90k (−15%).
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 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of Sustainable Cotton Project’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $16.
1 of 1 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 Sustainable Cotton Project’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Sustainable Cotton Project'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. $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
Sustainable Cotton Project's revenue fell 100% between 2017 and 2020.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,381 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
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In California
Nationally
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sustainable Cotton Project: 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 Sustainable Cotton Project?
- Sustainable Cotton Project (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $68 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($68). 1 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 Sustainable Cotton Project have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $68 in grants to Sustainable Cotton Project, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sustainable Cotton Project?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $68 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sustainable Cotton Project find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 1 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