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Environmental Protection Information Center Inc

Environmental Protection Information Center Inc (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $785,326 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($202,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$738k
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$785k
Net assets
$749k
13/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Environmental Protection Information Center Inc does

Mission

The specific purpose of this corporation is to channel public concern for the environment into action in the publics interest.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. - Commented on nearly every timber sale proposed on more than five million acres - Helped champion forward the states goal of conserving 30% of land and coastal waters by the year 2030 by helping coordinate the Power in Nature coalition - Worked with lawmakers and local communities around Jackson Demonstration State Forest to hold Cal Fire accountable in developing a new management plan with environmental review under CA Environmental Quality Act

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  2. - Filed protests to water rights applications filed by Cal Fire in Jackson Demonstration State Forest, and was approved - Advocated for a Robust Regional Climate Action Plan that was successful - Advocated for Protecting Flows for Salmon Strongholds in the Scott and Shasta River and was successful

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Total expenses for all program activities.

    $433,831 spent
    100% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $433,831.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($378k) Expenses 100 ($226k) Net assets 100 ($346k)2021 Revenue 100 ($377k) Expenses 131 ($297k) Net assets 127 ($439k)2022 Revenue 91 ($344k) Expenses 136 ($308k) Net assets 142 ($491k)2023 Revenue 85 ($323k) Expenses 175 ($396k) Net assets 129 ($445k)2024 Revenue 125 ($473k) Expenses 196 ($443k) Net assets 145 ($503k)2025 Revenue 195 ($738k) Expenses 227 ($514k) Net assets 217 ($749k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (195)Expenses (227)Net assets (217)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $526k to $771k (+47%).

$389k
$456k
$512k
$471k
$526k
$771k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of Environmental Protection Information Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$152k
’20
$80k
’21
$36k
’22
−$73k
’23
$31k
’24
$224k
’25
12
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed998899
Joined·+1+1+1+3+1
No longer listed·12121
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $33k → $116k.

8 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Protection Information Center Inc’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

Environmental Protection Information Center Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

67% 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 Protection Information Center Inc.

26%
largest funder
52%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 27% · 2019 19% · 2020 26% · 2021 42% · 2022 33% · 2023 49% — 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

43% of Environmental Protection Information Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

86% of Environmental Protection Information Center Inc's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
CA
MD
DE
AZ
TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $181k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Environmental Protection Information Center Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin30% · top quartile
Months of reserve12.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Environmental Protection Information Center Inc

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 9%Fundraising 6%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

82%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Environmental Protection Information Center Inc?
Environmental Protection Information Center Inc (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $785,326 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($202,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Environmental Protection Information Center Inc have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $785,326 in grants to Environmental Protection Information Center Inc, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Environmental Protection Information Center Inc?
UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $202,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Environmental Protection Information Center Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 23 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