Ohio · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $832,196 to it, the largest being Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation ($824,696). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $832k
- Net assets
- $392k
What Foundation for Environmental Education does
Mission
Solar Schools-Donate solar electricity systems to schools for use as educational tools. The solar electricity systems are installed in high profile locations at each school with high visibility and installed by certified solar installers and certified electricians. Solar Data is collected at each school for use for all of the schools as teaching tools. We donate data collection systems for use in classrooms and provide help with maintaining the PV systems at each school. We provide teacher training to schools without charge or cost to districts, schools, or teachers. Most of our current work is in Illinois but we have been working in Ohio, Kentucky, Washington DC, California, Texas, Washington (state), Pennsylvania, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, New Mexico, Louisiana, Maine and Florida.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
We are supporting another 501(c)(3). Streetlight Guild that promotes artists weh are Black including painters, musicians, poets, etc. We provided that non-profit the funds to create a center on East Main Street in Columbus, Ohio as part of our Wilson Avenue energy efficiency project. AEP and Columbia Gas were also involved in the project.
$19,975 spentof which $370 as grants44% of program spendingOver the last 3+ decades we have put in over 1,000 solar electricity systems at schools across the country with around 500 in Illinois alone. During the time, we also trained thousands of teachers and impacted tens of thousands of students and that work is still having an impact in most if not all of those school districts. But times have changed. Those projects we completed involved the teaching/education side of schools. Today, solar electricity is no longer the mysterious source of energy that made school districts want to learn more about it and use the data in their classrooms. Today, school districts want larger solar electricity systems that benefit BOTH the teaching side of their district and the business side. Solar electricity systems can lower electricity bills and almost always do. Larger systems can still have a positive impact on classrooms if the district goes in that direction. The data from these systems can help teach students about the science of energy and a lot about math and statistics and spreadsheets. BUT there are a lot of vendors/companies out there that are taking advantage of a lack of experience on the part of school districts that want to buy large…
$22,090 spentof which $200 as grants49% of program spendingWe continued to support our existing schools mainly in Illinois and in other states around the country and the District of Columbia. I have been driving to Illinois and to DC to "fix" our systems that are not working. Sometimes, I can do that on the phone, but often I just drive there. Maybe 3 or 4 times to Illinois mainly Chicago and to DC and even our California Schools. Also, I go to DC to meet with NEED.org which is also a 501c3 organization. Mary Spruill of NEED is helping with the Handbook which will be distributed through their website.
$2,975 spentof which $300 as grants7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $45,040.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $792k to $521k (−34%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 95% · 2020 99% · 2021 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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 held at 1 funder, grant income rose $76k → $100k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION’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
FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 92% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $832k 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.
Against its field
FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION's revenue fell 85% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
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In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
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 FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: 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 FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION?
- FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $832,196 to it, the largest being Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation ($824,696). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $832,196 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION?
- Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $824,696 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION 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.
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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 2018–2025), and the filings of 2 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