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SUSTAINABLE FAITH INC

SUSTAINABLE FAITH INC (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,254,917 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,606,980). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.2M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
$2.2M
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 41%
01What it does

What Sustainable Faith Inc does

Mission

To help leaders of churches and faith-based nonprofits thrive long-term in their vocations, in the us and abroad, by providing trainings and resources that foster a culture of healthy spirituality. Leader care and development resources include: spiritual direction, mentoring, and education in spiritual disciplines and contemplative practices. Sustainable faith offers vocational trainings for spiritual directors and church planters.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Training in spiritual direction: the school of spiritual direction trained directors to offer spiritual direction (a form of pastoral care) to leaders/pastors and their church communities.

    $877,204 spentof which $35,048 as grants$846,687 earned by the program
    80% of program spending

  2. Program to foster personal spiritual formation for christian leaders, including a network of spiritual directors who can offer pastoral care to christian leaders.

    $48,694 spentof which $2,160 as grants$92,369 earned by the program
    4% of program spending

  3. School of ecclesial life to equip and resource church planters and pastors of newer churches to establish viable congregations that serve their local neighborhoods. Offers a two-year training program.

    $112,773 spent
    10% of program spending

  4. School of neighborhood life continues and expands the work of sel to equip and resource church planters and pastors of newer churches to establish viable congregations that serve their local neighborhoods.reflective leadership: a leadership development program for a senior leader to reflect on accomplishments, broaden perspectives and discern next steps. Collaborative discernment: a leadership resourcing program to help senior leader team vision and plan for the future.

    $57,213 spent
    5% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,095,884.

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 ($747k) Expenses 100 ($678k) Net assets 100 ($154k)2018 Revenue 111 ($831k) Expenses 120 ($816k) Net assets 109 ($168k)2019 Revenue 116 ($868k) Expenses 125 ($846k) Net assets 123 ($189k)2020 Revenue 196 ($1.5M) Expenses 129 ($873k) Net assets 586 ($902k)2021 Revenue 166 ($1.2M) Expenses 149 ($1.0M) Net assets 781 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 153 ($1.1M) Expenses 172 ($1.2M) Net assets 766 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 152 ($1.1M) Expenses 186 ($1.3M) Net assets 695 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 159 ($1.2M) Expenses 182 ($1.2M) Net assets 928 ($1.4M)2025 Revenue 290 ($2.2M) Expenses 195 ($1.3M) Net assets 1431 ($2.2M)
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Revenue (290)Expenses (195)Net assets (1431)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 2024 to 2025, from $1.6M to $2.4M (+49%).

$193k
$180k
$223k
$984k
$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.2M
$1.6M
$2.4M
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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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

55% of SUSTAINABLE FAITH INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,735 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$69k
’17
$15k
’18
$21k
’19
$595k
’20
$227k
’21
−$23k
’22
−$121k
’23
−$47k
’24
$847k
’25
13
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

Elizabeth Slate

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed777787777
Joined·+0+0+1+3+0+0+1+1
No longer listed·00121011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $87k → $85k.

Funder
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'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
3
3
3
2
2
1

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 FAITH 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

SUSTAINABLE FAITH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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

27% 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 SUSTAINABLE FAITH INC.

71%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 90% · 2021 53% · 2022 85% · 2023 88% — 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

SUSTAINABLE FAITH INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 3 states in all.

MI
IN
CA

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

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’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $607k 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

SUSTAINABLE FAITH INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin39% · top quartile
Months of reserve13.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like SUSTAINABLE FAITH 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 Ohio

Kingdom Prayer Initiatives Inc78%Freedom Path Inc78%Reaching the Nations International77%Healing Care Ministries77%Spirit of Faith Adoptions Inc77%Undivided Inc77%Leaderwithin Inc77%Operation Serve Inc77%

Nationally

Wisdom Tree Collective Inc83%Strategic World Impact Inc83%Soulformation83%Servingleaders Ministries Inc82%Justfaith Ministries Inc82%Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc81%Set Free Ministries80%Pastoral Leadership Institute80%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
14%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

76%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds SUSTAINABLE FAITH INC?
SUSTAINABLE FAITH INC (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,254,917 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,606,980). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SUSTAINABLE FAITH INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $2,254,917 in grants to SUSTAINABLE FAITH INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SUSTAINABLE FAITH INC?
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,606,980 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SUSTAINABLE FAITH INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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