Sustainable Settings

Analysis

Sustainable Settings is a registered charity in United States, based in Carbondale, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Sustainable Settings reported income of $129k and spending of $196k, spending 152% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $154k to $129k (-16%), an average of -4.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 163%. Over the whole period it spent 115% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Sustainable Settings sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 43rd percentile, and in the 40th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Intl Assn for Landscape Ecology North America ($129k), Northampton Konkrete Kids Cheerleading Booster Club ($129k) and St Therese Mission Foundation ($128k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 27% and program service revenue 73% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.8m against liabilities of $3,843, net assets of $2.8m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.