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Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future

The mission of pennfuture is to lead the transition to a clean energy economy in pennsylvania and beyond.

$15k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$914kCrime & Legal$125kCivil Rights$24kEducation$10kPublic Benefit$10kHousing & Shelter$2kYouth Development$2kCommunity Improvement$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $11,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $15,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JASTECH DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC$2,000
YOUNG CHANCES FOUNDATION$2,000
NUEVA ESPERANZA HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP$2,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$2,000
RIVERFRONT NORTH PARTNERSHIP (DELAWARE RIVER CITY CORP0$2,000
PUBLIC HEALTH MANAGEMENT CORPORATION$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK: $228k → 6%NEW PENNSYLVANIA PROJECT: $10k → 8%FAIR SHAKE ENVIRONMENTAL LEGAL SERVICES: $72k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR PENNSYLVANIA WATERSHEDS: $1k → 13%MOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $47k → 17%CLEAN AIR COUNCIL: $84k → 22%ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $75k → 14%STATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE: $5k → 10%DELAWARE RIVER KEEPER NETWORK: $50k → 6%ROTARY CLUB OF MECHANICSBURG NORTH: $14k → 8%FAIR SHAKE ENVIRONMENTAL LEGAL SERVICES: $53k → 11%MOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $9k → 17%CLEAN AIR COUNCIL: $64k → 22%ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $21k → 14%DELAWARE RIVER KEEPER NETWORK: $25k → 6%O'HARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $25k → 11%MOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $7k → 17%CLEAN AIR COUNCIL: $50k → 22%O'HARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO: $10k → 11%CONVERSATION VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA: $48k → 22%O'HARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $5k → 11%CONVERSATION VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA: $28k → 22%PROTECT ELIZABETH TOWNSHIP: $19k → 11%CONSERVATION VOTERS OF PA: $25k → 22%BREATHE PROJECT: $45k → 11%CLEAN AIR COUNCIL: $20k → 22%CONSERVATION VOTERS OF PA: $20k → 22%CLEAN AIR COUNCIL: $18k → 22%PUBLIC HEALTH MANAGEMENT CORPORATION: $1k → 22%RIVERFRONT NORTH PARTNERSHIP (DELAWARE RIVER CITY CORP0: $2k → 22%NUEVA ESPERANZA HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: $2k → 22%YOUNG CHANCES FOUNDATION: $2k → 22%JASTECH DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC: $2k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 82%.

Citizens for Pennsylvania's Futurelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$797k · 6 repeat orgs$247k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +120% since the first grant, against +80% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$797k
$236k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+120%
+80%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
EnvironmentCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CA
    Clean Air Council
    2× · 2017–2019 · $237k · revenue +94%
  • EI
    ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT
    2× · 2017–2020 · $96k · revenue +120%
  • CV
    Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania
    2× · 2018–2019 · $76k · revenue +540%

Funded once

  • FS
    FAIR SHAKE ENVIRONMENTAL LEGAL SERVICES
    one grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue +5%
  • MW
    MOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $63k · revenue +201%
  • PE
    PROTECT ELIZABETH TOWNSHIPINCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $19k · revenue +393%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Pennsylvania Environmental Council Inc

The pennsylvania environmental council (pec) protects and restores the natural and built environments through innovation, collaboration, education, and advocacy. pec believes in the value of partnerships with the private sector,…

Environment
2
Penns Valley Conservation Association

To serve as a steward for the natural and cultural communities in the upper Penns Creek Watershed. We seek to preserve and Honor the agricultural roots of Penns Valley by protecting and conserving its waters, farmland, forests and rural…

Environment
3
Weconservepa

Weconservepa helps people protect, wisely use, and enjoy what nature offers. we advocate for pro-conservation, life sustaining government policy. we assist individuals and organizations in conserving natural areas, farms, forests, parks,…

Environment
4
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.

Recreation & Sports
5
The Clearwater Conservancy of Central Pennsylvania Inc

To conserve and restore the natural resources through land conservation, water resources stewardship and environmental outreach across central pennsylvania.

Environment
6
Philadelphia Green Capital Corp

The philadelphia green capital corp. connects projects to capital (public, private and philanthropic) to drive a robust, equitable clean energy market in the greater philadelphia region, support the philadelphia energy authority, and…

Community Improvement
7
Friends of Lackawanna

Friends of lackawanna is a pennsylvania non-profit corporation dedicated to supporting the health and welfare of the residents of northeastern pennsylvania and educating individuals regarding the health and safety of the enviroment.

Environment
8
Earth Conservancy

Earth conservancy is a nonprofit organization committed to the reclamation and return of over 16,000 acres of former coal company-owned land to the region. it collaborates with local communities, government agencies, education…

Environment
9
Central Pennsylvania Conservancy Inc

The mission of Central Pennsylvania Conservancy (CPC) is to acquire, preserve, and protect local land and natural resources in a five-county, South-Central PA region. Our vision is to create a local network of permanently protected and…

Environment
10
French and Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust Inc

To preserve, steward, and connect people to the land in northern chester county pennsylvania. see additional information on schedule o.french & pickering is recognized as a leader in regional land conservation, the organization is…

Environment
11
Citizens Coal Council

Citizens coal council is a national grassroots watchdog organization that empowers coalfield communities to protect their homes, land, and water by holding regulators and industry accountable to fully enforce environmental laws-especially…

Environment
12
Conservation Officers of Pennsylvania Association

Increase understanding, awareness and support for role of pennsylvania's conservation officers in the management of our natural resources through public outreach porgrams and by promoting professional and fraternalism within organization.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania; the most unlike its peers is Ohara Elementary Parent Teacher Organization. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Clean Air Council: $236,800 · EnvironmentClean Air CouncilENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $96,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECTMOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $63,200 · EnvironmentMOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INCCONSERVATION PENNSYLVANIA: $45,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION PENNSYLVANIA+2 more: $3,000 · EnvironmentDELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK: $302,654 · OtherDELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORKConservation Voters of Pennsylvania: $76,000 · OtherConservation Voters of PennsylvaniaMECHANICSBURG NORTH ROTARY CLUB: $13,757 · Other+3 more: $5,000 · OtherFAIR SHAKE ENVIRONMENTAL LEGAL SERVICES: $124,800 · Crime & LegalFAIR SHAKE E…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN: $45,000 · PhilanthropyOHARA ELEMENTARY PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION: $40,372 · EducationPROTECT ELIZABETH TOWNSHIPINC: $19,000 · Civil RightsNew PA Project Education Fund: $9,700 · Civil RightsSTATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE: $5,000 · Civil RightsDELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATION: $2,000 · Community ImprovementJASTECH DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC: $2,000 · Community Improvement
Environment$444,000Other$397,411Crime & Legal$124,800Philanthropy$45,000Education$40,372Civil Rights$33,700Community Improvement$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK: $302,654 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetFAIR SHAKE ENVIRONMENTAL LEGAL SERVICES: $124,800 over 1y, 13% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $96,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetConservation Voters of Pennsylvania: $76,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $63,200 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN: $45,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOHARA ELEMENTARY PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION: $40,372 over 3y, 56% of budgetMECHANICSBURG NORTH ROTARY CLUB: $13,757 over 1y, 18% of budgetNew PA Project Education Fund: $9,700 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSTATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG CHANCES FOUNDATIONS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNueva Esperanza Housing and Economic Development Corporation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR PENNSYLVANIA WATERSHEDS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPublic Health Management Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Heinz EndowmentsRockefeller Family Fu…The Schmidt Family Fo…The William Penn Foun…Rockefeller Philanthr…PatagoniaorgFoundation for Pennsy…Park Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …Resources Legacy FundTides FoundationThe Pittsburgh Founda…
The Heinz EndowmentsPA21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Heinz Endowments · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Patagoniaorg · Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds · Park Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · Resources Legacy Fund · Tides Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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