Iowa · Nonprofit
SUSTAINABLE LIVING COALITION
SUSTAINABLE LIVING COALITION (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,600 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($48,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $27k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $74k
- Net assets
- $88k
What Sustainable Living Coalition does
Mission
Sustainable Living Coalition partners with individuals and organizations to educate and implement innovative ideas in sustainable agriculture and local food systems, green building and community designs, renewable energy, transportation and waste reduction.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
TerraCycle-provide area residents with structured way to recycle hard to recycle materials such as oral care products, plastic bags, batteries, E-Waste, light bulbs, and more.
$13,800 spentof which $13,884 as grants42% of program spendingFairfield Community Garden Project with 40 plots used to grow food for families withall seeds, tools, and fertility provided along with education for families andlocal school projects. Any surplus food donated to local food pantries.
$7,147 spentof which $3,162 as grants22% of program spendingFairfield Resilient Action NetworkHelp foster land stewardship,support farmers, develop infrastructure, improveaccess to freash food in the community, and expand community gardens.
$12,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants36% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $32,947.
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 2017 to 2018, from $248k to $154k (−38%).
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.
100% of SUSTAINABLE LIVING COALITION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 4 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Stuart Valentine
Board Chair, President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $23k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 LIVING COALITION’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 LIVING COALITION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 LIVING COALITION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 89% — 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
92% of SUSTAINABLE LIVING COALITION'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. Of the $6k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside Iowa, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k 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 LIVING COALITION has grown faster than half of the 1,510 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,510 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SUSTAINABLE LIVING COALITION
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUSTAINABLE LIVING COALITION: 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 LIVING COALITION?
- SUSTAINABLE LIVING COALITION (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,600 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($48,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SUSTAINABLE LIVING COALITION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $73,600 in grants to SUSTAINABLE LIVING COALITION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUSTAINABLE LIVING COALITION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $48,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUSTAINABLE LIVING COALITION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 4 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