Sustainable World Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814670573
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6462566547
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Pollution Abatement and Control Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $25,372
- Expenses
- $70,718
- Assets
- $16,762
- Liabilities
- $14,578
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHAZIA Z RAFI (PRESIDENT AND CONVENOR)
Highest reported compensation
- SHAZIA Z RAFI (PRESIDENT AND CONVENOR): $43,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See schedule o part i for description of the organizations mission.
What it reported doing in 2024
Air quality asia is an international air quality advocacy group building on a successful parliamentary action model with the vision to secure a breathable future for asia. Its mission is to provide measurable improvement in air quality in asia through national policy and emissions regulation strengthening. The goal is to have three key pilot asian countries - india, indonesia and pakistan - meet the 2020/2030 united nations sustainable development goals related to air quality. On the international day for clean air and blue skies, september 7, 2022, air quality asia released an inspirational anthem for the clean air movement for one of the most polluted hotspots on the planet, south asia. The anthem, titled saafhawa, is linked to the un breathe life campaign and reaches out to the wider south asian citizens through evocative lyrics and music by some of the regions most celebrated music artists.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 75
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.8%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $17.69 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -178.7%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.87; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 60.8%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -20.5% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -39.9% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -15.5% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $43K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.