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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE POLICY AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE POLICY AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $348,354 to it, the largest being DREXEL UNIVERSITY ($348,354). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$123k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$348k
Net assets
$0
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 46%
01What it does

What Environmental Science Policy and Research Institute Inc does

Mission

The environmental science, policy, and research institute (espri) fills knowledge, data and policy gaps to advance basic science, public health and environmental stewardship.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The purpose of the organization is a scientific and educational organization with a focus on drinking water quality and treatment. The organization will have a laboratory to conduct applied research related to those topics.

    $96,706 spent$123,026 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $96,706.

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 ($128k) Expenses 100 ($126k) Net assets 100 ($2k)2018 Revenue 392 ($501k) Expenses 348 ($438k) Net assets 4002 ($65k)2019 Revenue 675 ($862k) Expenses 557 ($701k) Net assets 13958 ($225k)2020 Revenue 601 ($767k) Expenses 527 ($664k) Net assets 20353 ($328k)2021 Revenue 373 ($476k) Expenses 387 ($488k) Net assets 19589 ($316k)2022 Revenue 380 ($485k) Expenses 464 ($584k) Net assets 13444 ($217k)2023 Revenue 254 ($324k) Expenses 281 ($354k) Net assets 11587 ($187k)2024 Revenue 232 ($296k) Expenses 276 ($348k) Net assets 8383 ($135k)2025 Revenue 96 ($123k) Expenses 128 ($162k) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (96)Expenses (128)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $65k to $226k (+248%).

$35k
$65k
$226k
$329k
$316k
$217k
$187k
$136k
$0
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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.

$2k
’17
$63k
’18
$161k
’19
$103k
’20
−$12k
’21
−$99k
’22
−$31k
’23
−$52k
’24
−$39k
’25
4.7
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.

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Listed65566666
Joined·+0+2+1+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·1200000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $230k → $21k.

Funder
'18
'19
'20
'24*
total
Drexel Universityunclassified
$348k
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE POLICY AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE 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.

Where its funders are

100% of ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE POLICY AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

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

’18
’19
’20
Pennsylvania out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE POLICY AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE 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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

60% of spending goes to programs.

Program 60%Management 40%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE POLICY AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC?
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE POLICY AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $348,354 to it, the largest being DREXEL UNIVERSITY ($348,354). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE POLICY AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $348,354 in grants to ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE POLICY AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE POLICY AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC?
DREXEL UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $348,354 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE POLICY AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC 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.

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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