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Pennsylvania Environmental Council Inc

The pennsylvania environmental council (pec) protects and restores the natural and built environments through innovation, collaboration, education, and advocacy.

$356k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$38k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Environment$500kRecreation & Sports$166kCommunity Improvement$138kArts & Culture$97kYouth Development$73kEducation$38kHuman Services$30kHealth$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 26 grants below total $296,241 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $355,569 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $59,328 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $106k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $190k
$9,983
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MID-ATLANTIC YOUTH ANGLERS & OUTDOORS PARTNERS DBA LEGACY LAND WATER PARTNE$38,000
GIRLS IN GEAR$20,000
SHE IS FOCUSED COMMUNITY INC$20,000
AIM ACADEMY$20,000
EAST FALLS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$20,000
NEIGHBORHOOD COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY GARDENS (FORMERLY CALLED NORTH CAMDEN$12,000
9TH STREET YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
NATURAL LANDS$10,000
DISABILITY PRIDE PA$10,000
LAKE WALLENPAUPACK WATERSHED MANAGEMENT DISTRICT$10,000
TUBMILL TROUT CLUB UNLIMITED$10,000
OHIOPYLE BIKING CLUB$10,000
WILLISTOWN CONSERVATION TRUST$9,983
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT UNITED (DBA CHESTER UPLAND YOUTH SOCCER)$9,700
SEWICKLEY CREEK WATERSHED ASSOCIATION$9,417
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%IN COLOR BIRDING CLUB: $20k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 5% of Pennsylvania Environmental Council Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Pennsylvania Environmental Council Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$520k · 21 repeat orgs$564k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +96% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
41

Total granted

$520k
$389k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+96%
+39%

Still filing today

86%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentEducationRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • PO
    PENNSYLVANIA ORGANIZATION FOR WATERSHEDS AND RIVERS INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $46k · revenue +149%
  • MW
    MOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $41k · revenue +406%
  • LS
    LACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +248%

Funded once

  • Superior Arts Institute
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • HH
    Hike Heal Wellness
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • AS
    ANTHRACITE SCENIC TRAILS ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +138% · 46% of their budget

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
Independence Conservancyinc

Preserving open space by acquisition, easement or deed restriction to protect wildlife habitat, natural and cultural resources, scenic views and quality of life; providing stewardship of watersheds in southwestern pennsylvania through…

Environment
3
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
4
West Creek Conservancy

Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…

Environment
5
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
6
Lancaster County Conservancy

The mission of the lancaster county conservancy is "providing wild and forested lands and clean waterways for our community forever". the charitable purposes of the lancaster county conservancy include preservation of natural lands,…

Environment
7
Headwaters Charitable Trust

Secure public and private funding to better the lives of the citizens of north central pennsylvania through wise use, development, and protection of the region's natural resources.

Philanthropy
8
Montgomery County Lands Trust Inc

Land Conservation and Preservation.

Environment
9
Great Allegheny Passage Conservancy

Founded in 1995 to coordinate the completion of the great allegheny passage, a 150-mile non-motorized path connecting pittsburgh and cumberland, maryland, the great allegheny passage conservancy promotes the great allegheny passage and…

Environment
10
Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association Inc

To protect the quality & beauty of the wissahickon creek & to enhance life in the watershed.

Environment
11
Headwaters Resource Conservation and Development Council

The headwaters rc&d council promotes quality of life and economic sustainability by restoring, protecting, and enhancing natural and cultural resources in north central pennsylvania. we do this by providing technical assistance,…

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12
Allegheny County Conservation District

The Allegheny County Conservation District is an urban conservation district that engages and leads through partnerships, innovation, and implementation to conserve, promote, and improve Allegheny Countys natural resources.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Superior Arts Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySchool Parent Support Organ…Youth Development ProgramsMember Recreation ClubsYouth Performing Arts Progr…Private Charitable Foundati…Charter SchoolsAffordable Senior HousingYouth Sports LeaguesProfessional Trade Associat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%8%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr18%44%20–35yr14%13%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%9%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr18%45%20–35yr14%9%35–55yr16%12%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/79
the rest of the field
11%
4,712/41,990

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 79 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
41/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PENNSYLVANIA ORGANIZATION FOR WATERSHEDS AND RIVERS INC — $45,654 · EnvironmentPENNSYLVANIA ORGANIZATION FOR WATERSHEDS AND RIV…MOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC — $41,220 · EnvironmentMOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INCLACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC — $32,019 · EnvironmentLACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INCLACKAWANNA RIVER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $27,500 · EnvironmentLACKAWANNA RIVER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INCTUBMILL TROUT CLUB UNLIMITED — $25,000 · EnvironmentTUBMILL TROUT CLUB UNLIMITEDWILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC — $24,075 · EnvironmentCOUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY — $20,000 · EnvironmentANTHRACITE SCENIC TRAILS ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · EnvironmentCONEMAUGH VALLEY CONSERVANCY INC — $16,600 · Environment+23 more — $214,230 · Environment+23 moreMID-ATLANTIC YOUTH ANGLERS & OUTDOORS PARTNERS DBA LEGACY LAND WATER PARTNE — $47,100 · OtherMID-ATLANTIC YOUTH ANGLERS & OUTDO…OHIOPYLE BIKING CLUB — $20,000 · OtherOHIOPYLE BIKING CLUBHike Heal Wellness — $20,000 · OtherHike Heal WellnessSHE IS FOCUSED COMMUNITY INC — $20,000 · OtherSHE IS FOCUSED COMMUNITY INCLACKAWANNA HERITAGE VALLEY AUTHORITY — $19,600 · OtherLACKAWANNA HERITAGE VALLEY AUTHORI…ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK — $20,000 · OtherACADEMY IN MANAYUNKIn Color Birding Club — $20,000 · OtherIn Color Birding Club+22 more — $165,947 · Other+22 moreDELAWARE AND LEHIGH NATIONAL HERITAGE CORRIDOR INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE …Superior Arts Institute — $20,000 · Arts & CultureSuperior …CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCULTURETR…Artworks Trenton Inc — $16,200 · Arts & CultureArtworks …CARNEGIE INSTITUTE — $5,000 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE …East Falls Development Corporation — $20,000 · Community ImprovementDISABILITY PRIDE PHILADELPHIA INC — $20,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN HAWLEY PARTNERSHIP — $17,500 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF THE RIVERFRONT INC — $8,500 · Community ImprovementVANDERGRIFT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMINC — $6,200 · Community Improvement9TH STREET YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHESTER UPLAND YOUTH SOCCER — $19,400 · Youth DevelopmentURBANPROMISE TRENTON INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEIGHBORHOOD BIKE WORKS — $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentREDBANK VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATION — $34,000 · Public BenefitGirls In Gear Inc — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP FREEDOM INC — $8,256 · Recreation & SportsAspinwall Riverfront Park Inc — $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Environment$466,298Other$332,647Arts & Culture$91,200Community Improvement$72,200Youth Development$62,400Public Benefit$34,000Recreation & Sports$33,256

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPENNSYLVANIA ORGANIZATION FOR WATERSHEDS AND RIVERS INC — $45,654 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetMOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC — $41,220 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetREDBANK VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATION — $34,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetLACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC — $32,019 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetDELAWARE AND LEHIGH NATIONAL HERITAGE CORRIDOR INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLACKAWANNA RIVER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $27,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetTUBMILL TROUT CLUB UNLIMITED — $25,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetWILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC — $24,075 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY — $20,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budget9TH STREET YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 46% of budgetANTHRACITE SCENIC TRAILS ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetACADEMY IN MANAYUNK — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEast Falls Development Corporation — $20,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetDISABILITY PRIDE PHILADELPHIA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetGirls In Gear Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetCULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHESTER UPLAND YOUTH SOCCER — $19,400 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetCONEMAUGH VALLEY CONSERVANCY INC — $16,600 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetArtworks Trenton Inc — $16,200 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetLAKE WALLENPAUPACK WATERSHED MANAGEMENT DISTRICT — $15,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSewickley Creek Watershed Association — $15,417 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA PARKS AND FORESTS FOUNDATION INC — $15,150 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetURBANPROMISE TRENTON INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCLEAN STREAMS FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY IN MOTION — $14,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetNeighborhood Collaborative Community Gardens — $12,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetRIVERFRONT PARKS COMMITTEE — $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetNatural Lands Trust Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER VALLEY YMCA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWINNIE PALMER NATURE RESERVE — $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetWillistown Conservation Trust Inc — $9,983 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEARTH CONSERVANCY — $9,975 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHESTER RIDLEY CRUM WATERSHEDS ASSOCIATION — $9,400 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetDELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY — $9,050 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWestmoreland Land Trust — $8,781 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE RIVERFRONT INC — $8,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCAMP FREEDOM INC — $8,256 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD BIKE WORKS — $8,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $7,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREGIONAL TRAIL CORPORATION — $7,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Buck Hill Conservation Foundation — $6,700 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetGREATER HAZLETON AREA CIVIC PARTNERSHIP — $6,600 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetThe Lands at Hillside Farms — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWESTMORELAND CONSERVANCY — $5,774 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetWESTMORELAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $5,750 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST — $5,300 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetALLEGHENY COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Foundation for Pennsy…Richard King Mellon F…Scranton Area Foundat…The Honesdale Nationa…Ppl FoundationThe Pittsburgh Founda…The William Penn Foun…Katherine Mabis McKen…Open Space Institute …WeconservepaPennsylvania Organiza…American Water Charit…
Foundation for Pennsylvania WatershedsPA30.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · The Honesdale National Bank Foundation · Ppl Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundation · Open Space Institute Land Trust Inc · Weconservepa · Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds and Rivers Inc · American Water Charitable Foundationinc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Pennsylvania Environmental Council Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Artworks Trenton Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Urbanpromise Trenton Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
29report 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Pennsylvania Environmental Council Inc?

Find your warmest path to Pennsylvania Environmental Council Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 79 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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