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SUSTAINING WAY

EIN 45-4887679 GREENVILLE, SC

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Revenue 2024
$332,175
Expenses 2024
$571,751

Program services were 89.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S20
Classification
1000
Street
5 STONEHEDGE DR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

SUSTAINING WAY USES EDUCATION, COLLABORATION, AND ADVOCACY TO CREATE SUSTAINABLE, CARING, AND EQUITABLE COMMUNITIES FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS.

  • TO EDUCATE, EMPOWER, AND DEVELOP INDIVIDUALS IN WAYS THAT PROMOTE RESPONSIBILITY, CREATIVE-THINKING, SELF-SUFFICIENCY, EMPLOYABILITY, AND SELF CONFIDENCE.

    Expenses $510,519

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Michael Brown

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $77,258
    From this org
    $77,258
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Gary Davis

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jervelle Fort

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Liz Gilman

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rahsaan Louris

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sylvia Palmer

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Matthew Rehnborg

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $332,175
    Expenses
    $571,751
    Contributions
    $320,732
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $698,849
    Expenses
    $630,780
    Contributions
    $682,932
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $552,331
    Expenses
    $415,463
    Contributions
    $546,991
    Grants paid
    $9,368

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $362,693
    Expenses
    $301,529
    Assets (EOY)
    $256,900

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $261,069
    Expenses
    $227,905
    Assets (EOY)
    $496,904

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $261,069
    Expenses
    $227,905
    Assets (EOY)
    $209,254

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $179,954
    Expenses
    $167,358
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,773

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2015

Tax period
1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015
Principal officer
Richard Joye
Mailing address
5 Stonehedge DriveGreenville SC 29615
Website
www.sustainingway.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

  • $9,368

    2022

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Grants received

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Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.