Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE SMALL-SCALE SUSTAINABLE INFRA-
THE SMALL-SCALE SUSTAINABLE INFRA- (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,141 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $226k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $990k
What The Small-Scale Sustainable Infra- does
Mission
To achieve poverty alleviation and economic development, s3idf strenghtens small-scale enterprises and invest in high impact early-stage businesses to improve livess and livelihoods in underserved communities. Through financing and technical and businesses assistance, s3idf works to improve opportunities for low-income workers, address gender inequities, and generate environmental benefits in the agriculture, waste/sanitation, clean energy and other sectors. To disseminate and implement its work, s3idf also works closely with non- governmental community and non-profit organizations. It shares its trademarked "social merchant bank approach" to improve the pro-poor effectiveness of projects and programs implemented by international and local development agencies as well as the impact investing community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provides technological business development and financing assistance to nongovernmental private, community and nonprofit organizations in developing countries to provide infrastructure services for poverty alleviation and economic development.
$276,989 spentof which $67,586 as grants96% of program spendingTo disseminate the social merchant bank approach by using the lessons derived from small scale's transparent monitoring and evaluation work to achieve a much broader impact by encouraging organizations to adpot a similar approach.
$10,286 spent4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $287,275.
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 2021 to 2022, from $898k to $1.6M (+80%).
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: 2020 2% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of THE SMALL-SCALE SUSTAINABLE INFRA-’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. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $33.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 THE SMALL-SCALE SUSTAINABLE INFRA-’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
THE SMALL-SCALE SUSTAINABLE INFRA- leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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
91% 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 THE SMALL-SCALE SUSTAINABLE INFRA-.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
91% of THE SMALL-SCALE SUSTAINABLE INFRA-'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
THE SMALL-SCALE SUSTAINABLE INFRA- holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE SMALL-SCALE SUSTAINABLE INFRA-
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
20%
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 THE SMALL-SCALE SUSTAINABLE INFRA-: 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 THE SMALL-SCALE SUSTAINABLE INFRA-?
- THE SMALL-SCALE SUSTAINABLE INFRA- (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,141 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE SMALL-SCALE SUSTAINABLE INFRA- have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $11,141 in grants to THE SMALL-SCALE SUSTAINABLE INFRA-, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SMALL-SCALE SUSTAINABLE INFRA-?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SMALL-SCALE SUSTAINABLE INFRA- find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 3 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