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CONSERVATION VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA

CONSERVATION VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,559,359 to it, the largest being LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ($10,364,204). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.1M
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$15M
Net assets
$554k
10/22 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania does

Mission

Improve laws and structures that protect pennsylvania's environment by advocating for sound conservation policies and holding legislators accountable for their votes.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Community building - cvpa works to strengthen the environmental community across pennsylvania by promoting our events and the events of other organizations, recruiting and developing volunteers, and coaching allied organizations on best practices for advocacy and communications.

    $4,817,987 spent
    95% of program spending
  2. Advocacy - cvpa advocates for laws that will protect the natural resources of the commonwealth of pennsylvania. We work directly with state lawmakers to influence legislation and we activate our members to put grassroots pressure on legislators to support good laws. As part of our advocacy program, we produce a biannual pennsylvania environmental scorecard which tracks the environmental voting records of our state legislators.

    $137,020 spentof which $4,500 as grants
    3% of program spending
  3. Education - environmental issues are often politically and scientifically complex. We work to increase public awareness and understanding of these issues as well as to educate candidates for office and elected officials about the environmental threats and challenges facing our state. This education often takes the form of email and social media communications, but may also involve paid advertisements, mail programs or phone outreach.

    $122,133 spent
    2% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,077,140.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($298k) Expenses 100 ($355k) Net assets 100 ($41k)2018 Revenue 268 ($796k) Expenses 152 ($541k) Net assets 727 ($296k)2019 Revenue 298 ($887k) Expenses 163 ($580k) Net assets 1479 ($603k)2020 Revenue 332 ($987k) Expenses 309 ($1.1M) Net assets 1207 ($492k)2021 Revenue 612 ($1.8M) Expenses 308 ($1.1M) Net assets 2868 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 560 ($1.7M) Expenses 437 ($1.6M) Net assets 3152 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 655 ($1.9M) Expenses 563 ($2.0M) Net assets 3025 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 1294 ($3.9M) Expenses 1223 ($4.3M) Net assets 2180 ($889k)2025 Revenue 1712 ($5.1M) Expenses 1527 ($5.4M) Net assets 1360 ($554k)
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Revenue (1712)Expenses (1527)Net assets (1360)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $555k to $1.2M (+124%).

$134k
$480k
$695k
$555k
$1.2M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$968k
$630k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$58k
’17
$256k
’18
$306k
’19
−$111k
’20
$727k
’21
$116k
’22
−$52k
’23
−$492k
’24
−$334k
’25
1.4
months of
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

Molly Parzen

Executive Director

Board chair

Joanne Kilgour

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed9810101112101013
Joined·+2+4+5+4+4+1+0+4
No longer listed·32533301
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $113k → $1.6M.

3 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 CONSERVATION VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

CONSERVATION VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 CONSERVATION VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA.

71%
largest funder
85%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 89% · 2019 70% · 2020 29% · 2021 47% · 2022 53% · 2023 73% — 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

15% of CONSERVATION VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

CONSERVATION VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 6 states in all.

WA
WI
NY
PA
CA
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $194k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like CONSERVATION VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 5%Fundraising 1%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania Acti · exempt
  • Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania Vict · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CONSERVATION VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA?
CONSERVATION VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,559,359 to it, the largest being LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ($10,364,204). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CONSERVATION VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $14,559,359 in grants to CONSERVATION VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CONSERVATION VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA?
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,364,204 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CONSERVATION VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA 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 22 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing