California · Nonprofit
SUSTAINABLE LAFAYETTE
SUSTAINABLE LAFAYETTE (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,889 to it, the largest being JOHN SPERLING FOUNDATION ($30,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $62k
- Net assets
- $67k
What Sustainable Lafayette does
Mission
To provide the community with the information inspiration tools and assistance that facilitate the adoption of sustainable practices Furthermore we seek to act as a model mentor and partner for other interested communities
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Description The Lafayette Community Garden and Outdoor Learning Center LCG-OLC hosted work days tours for garden clubs and scout troops classes events and an annual open house for residents to learn about gardening growing food composting raising chickens and Native Bay Miwok culture LCG-OLC produced over a ton of vegetables using sustainable methods and hosted fifteen classes of third graders for Bay Miwok natural history The LGC-OLC hosts an apiary with Mt Diablo Beekeepers Association and makes the parking lot available for The Boy Scouts annual christmas tree sale LGC-OLC maintains a Little Free Library and a Little Free Pantry to provide food for those in need
$27,618 spent74% of program spendingSustainable Lafayette SL hosted the Lafayette Earth Day Festival with the Chamber of Commerce providing the venue for multiple community environmental organizations to share information and tools for more sustainable living SL continued its support and sponsorship of Safe Routes to Acalanes a project to study and design safe traffic infrastructure for bicyling to Acalanes High School SL also sponsors Project Earth a group of local high school environmental activists
$9,750 spent26% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,368.
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 2020 to 2021, from $156k to $99k (−36%).
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.
73% of SUSTAINABLE LAFAYETTE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Brad Crane
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $14k → $10k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 LAFAYETTE’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 LAFAYETTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 LAFAYETTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 91% · 2019 86% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 LAFAYETTE draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k 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.
Against its field
SUSTAINABLE LAFAYETTE has grown faster than half of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SUSTAINABLE LAFAYETTE
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
68%
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 LAFAYETTE: 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 LAFAYETTE?
- SUSTAINABLE LAFAYETTE (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,889 to it, the largest being JOHN SPERLING FOUNDATION ($30,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUSTAINABLE LAFAYETTE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $61,889 in grants to SUSTAINABLE LAFAYETTE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUSTAINABLE LAFAYETTE?
- JOHN SPERLING FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUSTAINABLE LAFAYETTE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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