Ohio · Nonprofit
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH (Ohio) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,384,074 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($735,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Environmental Health Watch does
Mission
Environmental health's mission is to create healthy homes and sustainable communities by identifying and removing hazards, engaging people, and advancing environmental solutions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Ehw has been focused on building capacity, expanding our executive leadership and focusing on board and organizational development. We have hired a development director who has secured over 300k in foundation grants and two program managers allowing the ceo to spend more time on development and reducing time on program implementation, while also developing and elevating our climate justice approach. We have been able to cultivate and strengthen existing relationships with funders and engage new funding partners- mcknight foundation. Due to the growth, we have worked with the lead safe cleveland coalition to support our office expansion, which includes some support from our general operating budget to cover increased rent/utilities. With multi-year support, most recently, the ceo and contractors have applied for a 20-million-dollar community change grant (pending) , with support of our local funders and mayors office of sustainability. In september of 2024, the ceo and healthy communities and climate program manager attended nyc climate week for the first time. - hired development director, healthy people and healthy communities program managers - submitted over 6 grant…
$3,724,557 spentof which $1,429,520 as grants$2,836,103 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,724,557.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.1M to $2.9M (+168%).
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: 2017 12% · 2018 9% · 2019 6% · 2020 9% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $151k → $1.3M.
7 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 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
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
51% 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 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 43% · 2019 39% · 2020 21% · 2021 31% · 2022 27% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.
“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
46% of ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
69% of ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $895k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$40k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH: 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 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH?
- ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH (Ohio) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,384,074 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($735,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $4,384,074 in grants to ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH?
- THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $735,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH WATCH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 25 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