Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PA CLEANWAYS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY INC
PA CLEANWAYS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,078,439 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($621,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $756k
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $280k
What Pa Cleanways of Allegheny County Inc does
Mission
To engage and empower people to eliminate illegal dumping and littering in allegheny county
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Land program: acw empowers people to eliminate illegal dumpsites and empower residents to address litter and future dumping issues. Activities include dumpbusters, wherein crews of staff and volunteers clean up thousands of illegal dumpsites across the county. The stepkeeper program engages volunteers to regularly clean litter from urban stairways, promoting safer, more accessible pedestrian infrastructure. Acw also hosts bulk-item disposal events, large group litter cleanups, and distributes litter kits to facilitate individual stewardship.
$262,808 spent$17,000 earned by the program50% of program spendingWater program: acw's key water-based program is the tireless project, aimed at getting residents engaged with local rivers and streams by cleaning up debris that accumulates along the shorelines. Using acw's 28-ft pontoon boat, the rachel carson; 30-ft jon boat, the knb; and 36-ft pontoon barge, the plastic magnet 1, acw's team works with volunteers to remove trash and educate them about issues affecting the county's waterways. Acw's gratekeepers program stewards volunteers who adopt and keep storm drains free of litter and other debris before ending up in local waterways.
$151,853 spent$30,122 earned by the program29% of program spendingEducation and outreach: acw strives to educate people about the impacts of illegal dumping and littering in an effort to encourage lifelong behavior and attitude changes. The primary avenues for education and outreach include waste management and watershed education, service learning, tabling events, social media, monthly newsletters, speaking engagements, and media appearances. In partnership with pennsylvania resources council, acw also runs eco scouts, a summer program that engages community cohorts in environmental education on waste systems and circularity.
$77,178 spent15% of program spendingResearch and advocacyby identifying dump sites and researching best practices, the organization gains critical information that helps serve the region better. Research has included studies that look at dumping patterns in pittsburgh; the amount and distribution of illegal dumpsites in allegheny county; and the amount, weight, and characteristics of all trash collected during three days of cleanups. These studies have provided critical information that the organization has used to educate the public, determine programs and services to offer, and suggest policy changes that will help reduce litter and illegal dumping.
$35,962 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $527,801.
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 2017 to 2018, from $109k to $233k (+113%).
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: 2022 9% · 2023 8% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of PA CLEANWAYS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY INC’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. 3 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 broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $31k → $289k.
3 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 PA CLEANWAYS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 30 funders by total. 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
PA CLEANWAYS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 59% · 2021 93% · 2022 94% · 2023 74% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of PA CLEANWAYS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 37% give in more than one year at all.
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
94% of PA CLEANWAYS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k 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
PA CLEANWAYS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY INC has grown faster than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PA CLEANWAYS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PA CLEANWAYS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY INC?
- PA CLEANWAYS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,078,439 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($621,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PA CLEANWAYS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,078,439 in grants to PA CLEANWAYS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PA CLEANWAYS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY INC?
- RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $621,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PA CLEANWAYS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 30 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