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Sustainable Tulsa Inc dba The Sustainability Alliance

Sustainable Tulsa Inc dba The Sustainability Alliance (Oklahoma) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $142,809 to it, the largest being FLINT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($35,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$362k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$143k
Net assets
$68k
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Sustainable Tulsa Inc dba The Sustainability Alliance does

Mission

We provide education, tools, and connections for collaborative action on environmental stewardship - supporting people, profit, planet. Our vision is a world that embraces and chooses sustainable practices every day.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.

First Steps is a new program to help community-based organizations embrace sustainability through simple, achievable measures on a guided journey of self-defined steps.

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).

  1. Our Scor3card program includes continual education events, match coaching, verification, awards and recognition, and an online sustainability tracking and assessment tool. Each year the program is analyzed and updated with the backdrop of regional, national, and global trends. The tool and program are for member organizations who want to track and improve their sustainability plans. Organizations using the triple bottom line strategey, Scor3card, engage around three areas of sustainability: people, profit, planet. The tool includes tips to achieve, resource links, reporting capability, and KPI tracking so they can involve their employees, bolster their economic growth, and become better environmental stewards.

    $104,618 spent$66,446 earned by the program
    38% of program spending
  2. The Business to Business Case for Sustainability Series (B2B) brings together businesses to learn from each other about the benefits of sustainability and how they are successfully incorporating the triple bottom line into their business model. The moderated panel brings speakers from around the globe to examine ESG reporting, materiality, climate change, and sustainability best practices. This series is held several times a year with both in-person and virtual options, and compliments other programs offered like Scor3card and First Thursday.

    $75,761 spent
    27% of program spending
  3. The TerraScore app empowers users in their sustainability journey by providing real-time suggestions and insights for education through action with a community of like-minded individuals. The TerraScore app involves users in sustainability programs with tangible actions and contributions to a sustainable future.

    $33,777 spent
    12% of program spending
  4. First Steps is a new program to help community-based organizations embrace sustainability through simple, achievable measures on a guided journey of self-defined steps.

    $33,775 spent
    12% of program spending
  5. First Thursday is The Sustainability Alliance's open-to-the-public meeting offering individuals an opportunity to network and listen to presentations from local, regional, and national sustainability leaders on a variety of topics. Meetings are in-person with a virtual option. The goal is to connect the breadth of sustainability and innovation driving success with our individual community, Scor3card teams, B2B champions, and First Step doers. First Thursday meetings alternate with Green Drinks and TerraScore as an engagement option on the first Thursday of each month.

    $30,334 spent
    11% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $278,265.

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 ($179k) Expenses 100 ($167k) Net assets 100 ($123k)2018 Revenue 122 ($218k) Expenses 124 ($207k) Net assets 106 ($130k)2019 Revenue 165 ($295k) Expenses 193 ($321k) Net assets 73 ($90k)2020 Revenue 215 ($384k) Expenses 199 ($332k) Net assets 151 ($186k)2021 Revenue 226 ($404k) Expenses 214 ($357k) Net assets 190 ($233k)2022 Revenue 185 ($331k) Expenses 230 ($384k) Net assets 146 ($180k)2023 Revenue 186 ($333k) Expenses 264 ($440k) Net assets 59 ($73k)2024 Revenue 202 ($362k) Expenses 220 ($367k) Net assets 55 ($68k)
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Revenue (202)Expenses (220)Net assets (55)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 2022 to 2023, from $230k to $126k (−45%).

$151k
$148k
$103k
$206k
$292k
$230k
$126k
$106k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 12% · 2019 42% · 2020 50% · 2021 41% · 2022 34% · 2023 37% · 2024 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

83% of Sustainable Tulsa Inc dba The Sustainability Alliance’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$12k
’17
$10k
’18
−$26k
’19
$52k
’20
$48k
’21
−$53k
’22
−$107k
’23
−$5k
’24
3.3
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.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed10161819191717
Joined·+7+6+5+0+4+3
No longer listed·144063
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $49k → $18k.

1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $70k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Tulsa Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Sustainable Tulsa Inc dba The Sustainability Alliance raised.

From the IRS filings of Sustainable Tulsa Inc dba The Sustainability Alliance’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 Tulsa Inc dba The Sustainability Alliance has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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

32% 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 Tulsa Inc dba The Sustainability Alliance.

25%
largest funder
59%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 37% · 2022 100% · 2023 56% — 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

79% of Sustainable Tulsa Inc dba The Sustainability Alliance's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.

MO
OK
GA

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

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’22
’23
Oklahoma out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Sustainable Tulsa Inc dba The Sustainability Alliance has grown faster than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve3.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding Sustainable Tulsa Inc dba The Sustainability Alliance receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12k on record.

State$12k
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16
Top programs
  • Environmental Consulting Svc$12k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 18%Fundraising 6%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

93%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OK

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Questions and answers

Who funds Sustainable Tulsa Inc dba The Sustainability Alliance?
Sustainable Tulsa Inc dba The Sustainability Alliance (Oklahoma) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $142,809 to it, the largest being FLINT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($35,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Sustainable Tulsa Inc dba The Sustainability Alliance have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $142,809 in grants to Sustainable Tulsa Inc dba The Sustainability Alliance, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Sustainable Tulsa Inc dba The Sustainability Alliance?
FLINT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sustainable Tulsa Inc dba The Sustainability Alliance find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 7 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