Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE
CITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,502,039 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($3,502,200). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future does
Mission
The mission of pennfuture is to lead the transition to a clean energy economy in pennsylvania and beyond. Pennfuture is protecting our air, water and land, and empowering citizens to build sustainable communities for future generations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Climate and energy: pennfuture continued to educate the public and decisionmakers on the benefits and opportunities of building more renewable energy to address local, state, and national pollution interests. This work was carried out in different ways, including defending state climate initiatives in the state court system, removing barriers to solar energy deployment, watchdogging new energy development projects, and promoting and advancing opportunities to increase energy efficiency. Pennfuture also built on or developed new educational programming on rising electricity prices as well as the impact of data center projects on environmental concerns.
$462,589 spent$25,156 earned by the program20% of program spendingClean water: pennfuture continued its longstanding efforts to protect water quality in the major water basins of pennsylvania by engaging in the regulatory process assessing project developments along important waterways, and educating the general public on the benefits of state investment in clean water infrastructure. Pennfuture pursued actions to reduce stream impacts from large scale warehouse developments in the delaware river basin, advance green infrastructure in the lake erie watershed, as well as provided expertise toward the creation of new regional plans for chesapeake bay clean-up. Pennfuture also initiated new educational work around the ohio river basin.
$1,209,718 spent$65,785 earned by the program53% of program spendingClean air: pennfuture continued its work to improve air quality conditions in southwest pennsylvania. This included regulatory and permit watchdogging of major pollution sources in the region as well as advocating with local officials' for new investments in the county health agency to improve monitoring, inspections, and public engagement.
$623,108 spent$33,885 earned by the program27% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spentof which $15,000 as grants0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,295,415.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $5.5M to $3.5M (−36%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 11% · 2019 3% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of CITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Patrick Mcdonnell
President and CEO
Board chair
Ellen Lutz
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $987k → $2.7M.
14 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
45% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 30% · 2019 25% · 2020 19% · 2021 41% · 2022 35% · 2023 39% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
38% of CITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 25 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE?
- CITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,502,039 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($3,502,200). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $15,502,039 in grants to CITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE?
- THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,502,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 58 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing