Sustainable America Foundation

What Sustainable America Foundation does

Sustainable America Foundation is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization headquartered at 530 S 11th St, Suite 200, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, focused on making American food and fuel systems more resilient and efficient. Founded in 2012 and operating with a 1-10 person team, it serves individual consumers, food-rescue organizations, and community educators through five interconnected digital initiatives: How Do You Fuel (a fuel-habits quiz), I Value Food (a food-waste prevention resource hub), Food Rescue Locator (a directory of food rescue organizations), Shared Earth (a local food-sharing network), and Turn It Off (an anti-idling campaign toolkit). These platforms are delivered as conventional web properties on dedicated domains, supported by a content marketing engine built around an educational blog, an email newsletter segmented into Food and Fuel roundups, and an organic social presence on Facebook, X, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Instagram.

The foundation's underlying technology is a portfolio of straightforward web applications — interactive quizzes, a searchable rescue-organization directory, a pledge/campaign toolkit, and community-sharing listings — none of which expose public APIs or SDKs and none of which incorporate disclosed AI/ML components. Distribution is entirely digital and free to the end user, with the operating geography limited to the United States. The foundation's go-to-market motion is community-led: awareness is built through content, social engagement, and donations solicited via sustain-ableamerica.org and program-specific landing pages.

Revenue is generated exclusively through donations and charitable contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporate sponsors. There are no priced products, no enterprise contracts, no disclosed funding rounds, no acquisitions, and no leadership transitions in the available sources. Competitive positioning rests on a moderate content-library advantage and a cross-initiative digital ecosystem rather than proprietary technology, regulation, or scale economics.

Name

Sustainable America Foundation

Legal name

Sustainable America

Website

https://sustainableamerica.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Sustainable America Foundation is a Milwaukee-based nonprofit that operates free digital tools and educational content to help individuals and communities reduce food waste, recover surplus food, and conserve fuel across the United States.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Sustainability Education

NAICS

Environment, Conservation and Wildlife Organizations (813312), Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Social Advocacy Organizations (8133)

akta.pro primary industry

Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems (Fair Trade, Food Access, Regenerative) (BPAGALAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems (BPAGAGAI), Environmental Science & Sustainability Programs (Ecology, Climate, Conservation) (EDAMABAD), Community Foundations (BPAGAKAB)

Keywords

• Food waste prevention
• Fuel conservation education
• Local food sharing
• Sustainability education
• Food recovery network

Headquarters

HQ city

Milwaukee

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Donations and Charitable Contributions: As a nonprofit foundation, Sustainable America generates revenue primarily through charitable donations from individuals, foundations, and corporate sponsors who support their mission to make America's food and fuel systems more resilient and efficient.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Sustainable America Foundation operates a portfolio of free, web-based educational platforms and digital tools focused on food and fuel sustainability. The foundation delivers interactive quizzes, resource hubs, food rescue directories, local food sharing networks, and anti-idling campaign materials to help individuals and communities reduce food waste, conserve fuel, and build more resilient local food systems. All tools and educational content are provided at no cost to users, supported by charitable donations.

Product overview

Sustainable America Foundation operates as a non-profit organization offering a portfolio of interconnected digital initiatives and resources focused on food and fuel sustainability. The core offerings consist of five digital platforms: How Do You Fuel (fuel awareness assessment), Shared Earth (local food sharing network), I Value Food (food waste prevention hub), Food Rescue Locator (food recovery organization directory), and Turn It Off (anti-idling campaign toolkit). These initiatives work together to address the organization's mission of making America's food and fuel systems more resilient and efficient, providing tools for individual action, community engagement, and resource optimization across food waste prevention, local food production, and fuel conservation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• How Do You Fuel: Fuel awareness and impact initiative - quiz and resources for modifying fuel-heavy habits
• Shared Earth
• I Value Food
• Food Rescue Locator
• Turn It Off

Products and services

• How Do You Fuel

Quantifiable outcome

• ReFED's 2026 report indicates U.S. food waste declined 2.2% in 2024, with residential food waste dropping by approximately 950,000 tons as consumers adopt more intentional habits around food management.
• +2 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): NRDC is a major U.S. environmental advocacy nonprofit whose work spans climate, food waste, and sustainable agriculture. It overlaps with Sustainable America's environmental education mission but at vastly greater institutional scale and scope.
• World Wildlife Fund (WWF): WWF is a global conservation nonprofit addressing food systems, climate, and sustainable consumption. Its public-facing food waste and sustainable-living consumer education work is a scaled analog of Sustainable America's I Value Food and How Do You Fuel resources.
• ReFED: ReFED is the leading U.S. nonprofit working on food waste reduction through data, policy advocacy, and partnership convening. It directly parallels Sustainable America's food-waste education and awareness mission but operates as the data/policy anchor for the broader ecosystem.
• Sierra Club: Sierra Club is one of the largest U.S. environmental advocacy organizations, working on climate, transportation, and sustainable-living issues. Its individual-action education and behavior-change campaigns broadly overlap with Sustainable America's anti-idling and fuel-conservation work.
• Center for Biological Diversity: Center for Biological Diversity is a U.S. environmental advocacy nonprofit focused on climate, food systems, and sustainable-agriculture reform. Its consumer education and policy advocacy blend overlaps with Sustainable America's food-systems awareness mission.

Emerging players

• Imperfect Foods: Imperfect Foods is a venture-backed DTC grocer that redirects 'ugly' and surplus produce from farm waste streams to consumer households. Its mission of reducing food waste at the consumer level is a commercial analog to Sustainable America's I Value Food educational positioning.

Direct peers

• Food Rescue US: Food Rescue US is a nonprofit platform that directly connects volunteers with surplus food donors to redistribute edible food to communities in need. It operates the same directory-based food-rescue model as Sustainable America's Food Rescue Locator.
• EarthShare: EarthShare is a nonprofit federation that connects workplace giving donors with environmental causes. It shares a donation-revenue model and mission of channeling charitable dollars to sustainability-focused organizations like Sustainable America.
• Food Recovery Network: Food Recovery Network is a student- and community-led nonprofit that recovers surplus food and redirects it to people in need. It overlaps closely with Sustainable America's food recovery and community-engagement focus on the same volunteer donor base.
• Feeding America: Feeding America operates the largest U.S. domestic food-rescue and hunger-relief network. Its food-recovery and redistribution mission directly mirrors Sustainable America's Food Rescue Locator, though at national-network scale versus directory-only.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/foodfuelfuture
• Facebookfacebook.com/SustainableAmerica
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sustainable-america
• Instagraminstagram.com/sustainable_america
• Pinterestpinterest.com/sustainableusa

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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