Illinois · Nonprofit
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER ACTION FUND
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER ACTION FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200,000 to it, the largest being THE PETERFFY FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $309k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $200k
- Net assets
- $831k
What Environmental Law and Policy Center Action Fund does
Mission
The Environmental Law and Policy Center Action Fund ("action fund") is an advocacy organization working to protect the midwest's environment and natural resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Clean water: the action fund works to promote safe clean water and to protect the great lakes.
$416,072 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $416,072.
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 $664k to $1.0M (+53%).
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.
91% of ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER ACTION FUND’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.
Board chair
David Wilhelm
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $50k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest). These are real filings, and they are not money ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER ACTION FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER ACTION FUND’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.
Where its funders are
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER ACTION FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 LAW AND POLICY CENTER ACTION FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER ACTION FUND
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER ACTION FUND: 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 LAW AND POLICY CENTER ACTION FUND?
- ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER ACTION FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200,000 to it, the largest being THE PETERFFY FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER ACTION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $200,000 in grants to ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER ACTION FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER ACTION FUND?
- THE PETERFFY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER ACTION FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 1 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