Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
GREEN VALLEYS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA
GREEN VALLEYS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $886,816 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($540,454). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $739k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $887k
- Net assets
- $6.9M
What Green Valleys Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania does
Mission
To protect, preserve, and restore the natural waterways of northern chester county. We inspire, educate, and involve our community to make a difference for our generation and for generations to come.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Watershed protection - assessment of the watersheds of northern chester county (french, pigeon, pickering, valley creeks and stony run) biological conditional provides the detailed information needed to identify the sources and impacts of stressors. Mapping of impaired waters and provides a guide to the least stressed areas in the watersheds where watershed ecosystems should be most intact. This enables prioritization of conservation and restoration efforts, and forms the basis for effective advocacy. Data collected helps with the development of longterm trend information and provides quantitative information about the effectiveness of protection and restorations programs, as well as warning of new degradation. Assessments include chemical and microbiological monitoring, (continued on schedule o) macroinvertebrates, habitat assessments, gis mapping and modeling. Restoration work includes restoration of forested streamside buffer, agricultural best management practices and green stormwater infrastructure. Schuylkill water stewards volunteer training program teaches participants about watershed issues, enabling them to be better advocates for our streams.
$86,937 spent$87,699 earned by the program18% of program spendingEnvironmental & watershed science education - connecting people with nature has been a part of the association since its founding fifty years ago. Summer nature camp, our longest running program, encourages a child's natural curiosity of the outdoors by engaging them in fun and educational activities. Summer internships give students in the fields of education or science majors' experiential learning opportunities including program preparation and delivery to children both on-site, in libraries, and at schools. On-site programs include pond & stream studies, nature-themed walks, and scout badge programs. In school programs include after school clubs focused on watershed science education and stationbased programming focused on meeting school standards.
$193,212 spent40% of program spendingWelkinweir - the association's headquarters and former home of the association's founding members, who donated the property. The estate house and 162 permanently protected acres are listed on the natural register of historic places; an adjacent 62 acres are under permanent protection. The property features an arboretum of rare or unusual trees and shrubs and formal gardens set within ecologically diverse forests, meadows, wetlands, ponds, and stream habitats as well as an ever-growing collection of projects that demonstrate sustainable practices and nature-cased infrastructure. We provide training through summer internships for students in the fields of horticulture, forestry, ecological restoration, who go on to work at public and private gardens. Welkinweir is where many of (continued on schedule o) the association's educational programs take place. A very limited number of special event rentals (primarily weddings, but also memorial services, business meetings, and civic functions) are allowed in the arboretum and at the estate house during the spring and fall. Funds generated are used to support the continued preservation and restoration of the historic property.
$202,512 spent42% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $482,661.
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 $6.0M to $6.6M (+11%).
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 24% · 2019 21% · 2020 7% · 2021 8% · 2022 11% · 2023 12% · 2024 4% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of GREEN VALLEYS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA’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. 2 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $35k → $142k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 GREEN VALLEYS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA’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
GREEN VALLEYS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
39% 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 GREEN VALLEYS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 74% · 2021 70% · 2022 62% · 2023 73% — 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.
Where its funders are
67% of GREEN VALLEYS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k 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
GREEN VALLEYS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 GREEN VALLEYS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREEN VALLEYS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA?
- GREEN VALLEYS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $886,816 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($540,454). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREEN VALLEYS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $886,816 in grants to GREEN VALLEYS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREEN VALLEYS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA?
- THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $540,454 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREEN VALLEYS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA 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 7 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