Maryland · Nonprofit
VOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
VOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE (Maryland) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,529,936 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($1,200,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $7.5M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Voices for a Sustainable Future does
Mission
Voices for a Sustainable Future and the labor network for sustainability (lns) was founded on the belief that aligning the labor and climate movements around an agenda that confronts the climate crisis and economic justice would advance the goals of both movements and offer the best hope for averting the most catastrophic consequences of climate change. Our mission is to engage workers and communities in building a transition to a society that is ecologically sustainable and economically just.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Long-term goals are to: -support the labor movement to become a leading force for a just transition to a regenerative economy, by building and advancing a climate action program of its own. -support environmentalists and other climate leaders to understand: 1) labor's importance to the success of the climate movement, to restore democracy and to reduce inequality; 2) how central work is to people's lives; 3) that good jobs are an essential element of a just transition. -build bridges and deep relationships between the labor and climate movements and help them engage together in rising to the challenges of the current climate crisis. Just transition listening project the need for a large-scale just transition for workers and communities has never been more urgent. In april 2020 alone, more than 30 million workers applied for unemployment. Many face the likelihood that they will never go back to their previous jobs. The coronavirus pandemic and the economic crisis developing as a result offer an important barometer of whether and how we are prepared socially, politically and economically for massive changes to our economy. The shift to a green economy we need in order to confront…
$1,121,290 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,121,290.
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 $620k to $1.6M (+161%).
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: 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of VOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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 broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $30k → $1.1M.
6 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 VOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. 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
VOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
26% 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 VOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 83% · 2019 45% · 2020 30% · 2021 32% · 2022 19% · 2023 22% — 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.
How long its funders stay
14% of VOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
VOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $396k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
VOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like VOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
42%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE: 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 VOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE?
- VOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE (Maryland) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,529,936 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($1,200,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $7,529,936 in grants to VOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE?
- JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 35 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