How much does Western Pennsylvania Conservancy give?

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy reported 3 itemized grants totaling $17,669, out of $47,222 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Western Pennsylvania Conservancy fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (99%), Recreation & Sports (1%).

Who are Western Pennsylvania Conservancy's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh ($2.0M), Stroud Water Research Center ($385k), Native Creations Landscape Services ($244k).

Does Western Pennsylvania Conservancy fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Western Pennsylvania Conservancy?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds, Richard King Mellon Foundation.

Where is Western Pennsylvania Conservancy based?

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy is based in PA.

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Pennsylvania · Public charity

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. The conservancy creates green spaces and gardens, contributing to the vitality of our cities and towns, and preserves…

$47k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 3
Itemized grants FY2025: 1
Organizations funded FY2024: 100%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $18k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $5,666
Largest grant, FY2025: $6,815
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 15; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $152M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Western Pennsylvania Conservancy funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentScience & TechFood & NutritionOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	3	$18k	100%
FY2024	1	$21k	100%
FY2023	15	$894k	67%
FY2022	12	$826k	67%
FY2021	9	$174k	44%
FY2020	15	$810k	80%
FY2019	5	$163k	40%
FY2018	8	$2.3M	88%

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What it funded, over time

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

Environment$5.2MRecreation & Sports$44k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh	$2,000,000	1	n/a
Stroud Water Research Center	$384,922	3	3%
Native Creations Landscape Services	$243,990	2	n/a
Crow & Berry Land Management	$227,250	2	n/a
Propagate Group Pbc	$191,560	1	n/a
Jennerstown Borough	$183,178	1	n/a
Land Studies Inc	$180,475	4	n/a
Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Inc	$173,567	4	1%
Huntingdon County Conservation District	$158,517	3	n/a
Fsf Conservation Contractors LLC	$156,560	2	n/a

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All grantees of Western Pennsylvania Conservancy by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh	$2,000,000	1	n/a
Stroud Water Research Center	$384,922	3	3%
Native Creations Landscape Services	$243,990	2	n/a
Crow & Berry Land Management	$227,250	2	n/a
Propagate Group Pbc	$191,560	1	n/a
Jennerstown Borough	$183,178	1	n/a
Land Studies Inc	$180,475	4	n/a
Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Inc	$173,567	4	1%
Huntingdon County Conservation District	$158,517	3	n/a
Fsf Conservation Contractors LLC	$156,560	2	n/a
Weeds Inc	$150,000	1	n/a
Open Sesame Designs LLC	$113,730	1	n/a
Bradford Cnty Conservation District	$100,500	2	n/a
London Britain Township	$99,600	1	n/a
Conemaugh Valley Conservancy Inc	$74,600	1	25%
Rising Locust Farm	$55,000	1	n/a
French Creek Valley Conservancy	$50,632	3	4%
Chesapeake Conservancy Inc	$49,500	1	1%
Audubon Society of Western Pa	$45,680	2	2%
Ironwood Forestry	$44,500	1	n/a
York County Conservation District	$41,500	2	n/a
Fulton County Conservation District	$40,000	1	n/a
Arche Wild	$35,600	1	n/a
Londonderry Township	$35,000	2	n/a
Schuylkill Headwaters Association Inc	$30,505	1	3%
Adams County Conservation District	$29,379	1	n/a
Allegheny Aquatic Alliance	$26,658	3	n/a
Blair County Conservation District	$25,475	1	n/a
Fairmount Park Conservancy	$25,000	1	0%
NatureServe	$25,000	1	0%
Native Creations	$23,875	1	n/a
Bucks County Conservation District	$23,500	1	n/a
Lawrence County Government Center	$21,000	1	n/a
Horn Farm Center for Agricultural Education	$18,668	1	7%
Delaware County Conservation District	$15,975	1	n/a
East Vandergrift Borough	$15,000	1	n/a
Loyalhanna Watershed Association Inc	$13,875	1	4%
West York Area School District	$13,682	1	n/a
Octoraro Watershed Association	$11,000	1	43%
Susquehanna County Conservation District	$10,500	1	n/a
Chester County Conservation District	$10,500	1	n/a
Sewickley Creek Watershed Association	$10,400	1	18%
Reflorest	$10,090	1	n/a
Lancaster County Conservation District	$8,660	1	n/a
Shenango River Watchers Inc	$6,815	1	5%
Brandywine Red Clay Alliance	$6,500	1	0%
East Hanover Township Park and Recreation	$6,190	1	n/a
The Clearwater Conservancy of Central Pennsylvania Inc	$5,666	1	n/a
Land Trust Alliance Inc	$5,188	1	n/a

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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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.

National Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC30.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Lancaster County Community Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

How much does Western Pennsylvania Conservancy give?: Western Pennsylvania Conservancy reported 3 itemized grants totaling $17,669, out of $47,222 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Western Pennsylvania Conservancy fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (99%), Recreation & Sports (1%).
Who are Western Pennsylvania Conservancy's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh ($2.0M), Stroud Water Research Center ($385k), Native Creations Landscape Services ($244k).
Does Western Pennsylvania Conservancy fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Western Pennsylvania Conservancy?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds, Richard King Mellon Foundation.
Where is Western Pennsylvania Conservancy based?: Western Pennsylvania Conservancy is based in PA.