California · Nonprofit
PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER
PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER (California) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,944,368 to it, the largest being SERGEY BRIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,110,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $30M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Pacific Environment and Resources Center does
Mission
Scientific/education on environmental issues. Protects the environment of the pacific rim by strengthening local environmental leadership in china, the arctic, alaska, and california. We provide professional training and resources to conservation leaders and organizations, and we seek to hold governments, corporations, and banks accountable for their actions. With our community partners, we have protected old growth forest and endangered species; engaged oil, gas, mining, and timber companies to address local concerns; cleaned up polluting factories; and improved socal and environmental practices at global financial institutions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
China: we work with local partners to reduce air and water pollution and promote the sustainable use of natural resources.
$1,118,960 spentof which $278,996 as grants$4,482 earned by the program13% of program spendingClimate: we lead coalition campaigns and collaborate with local partners to reduce climate-polluting greenhouse gas emissions (ghgs) by getting ships off fossil fuels.
$6,339,461 spentof which $1,386,313 as grants75% of program spendingMarine: we lead international campaigns and collaborate with local communities to establish protected marine areas and to fight the rising tide of plastic pollution.
$722,325 spentof which $119,362 as grants9% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$273,708 spentof which $18,238 as grants3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,454,454.
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 2022 to 2023, from $8.1M to $13M (+60%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 0% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% 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.
Chief executive
Shannon Wright
Executive director
Board chair
Peter Riggs
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $559k → $7.7M.
12 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 44% · 2019 45% · 2020 35% · 2021 65% · 2022 26% · 2023 65% — 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
56% of PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
87% of PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 195 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- Department of State$20k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
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 PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER: 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 PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER?
- PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER (California) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,944,368 to it, the largest being SERGEY BRIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,110,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $29,944,368 in grants to PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER?
- SERGEY BRIN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 37 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