Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PENN SOIL RC&D COUNCIL
PENN SOIL RC&D COUNCIL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,830 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Warren County ($11,830). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $104k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $19k
- Net assets
- $95k
What Penn Soil RC&D Council does
Mission
Provide the local leadership necessary to develop and implement a plan that will improve the economy, environmental and social-well being of the people through accelerated planning and development of the natural resources in eight northwestern pennsylvania counties.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Economic development: we accepted new requests for assistance from a volunteer senior citizen group to replace a deteriorating functional greenhouse at the warren state hospital where the volunteers were planting seeds and producing starter vegetables and flower plants for sale to the community to raise funds in support of donations to other community non-profit organizations in warren county. Their lease on the old state-owned facility was terminated due to structural deficiencies and we are now actively developing project narratives and a budget plan to solicit funding to build a new greeenhouse facitlity at a local senior citizen residential facility within the county to enable the group to continue to serve the community needs. We also began a project to provide assistance to the meadville area recreational gardens to create a new urban farming enterprise to grow fresh food within the city of meadville and submitted a federal grant proposal to create an on-the job training program for a new and beginning farmer to provide nutritcious locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables for residents of meadvilles low-income, low access food areas by launching the first urban farming…
$12,761 spent$46,476 earned by the program42% of program spendingTourism: to increase tourism opportunities for our region, we co-hosted and planned the 9th annual nature art showcase and sale event, recruiting 76 artists and display 104 art pieces representing the natural and recreational assets of northwestern pa, through diverse media, which were displayed and were available for sale to the public. We also developed and administered the creation of a project to increase visitation to the allegheny national forest in honor of the 100 year history since the creation of the allegheny national forest in 1923. Twenty-eight individual geocaches were developed and placed at specific historic locations within the four counties comprising the allegheny national forest. Pennsoil rc&d created the passport document and made it available for public download from our website. The exact locations were published on the internet and gps coordinates were used for the public to seek out the geocaches. Geocachers would be able to find the geocaches and record the dates they found the specific geocaches on their passport as well as recording their experience and comments online. Geocachers who would find a minimum of 20 out of 28 geocaches would be able to…
$9,575 spent$7,051 earned by the program32% of program spendingSoil and water conservation: in 2024, pennsoil rc&d initiated a project that included scheduled meetings for individuals or groups such as women in agriculture, the amish population, veterans, new and beginning farmers, and/or individuals interested in developing urban farming enterprises either in person or remotely to help acquaint them with the requirements for receiving technical or financial assistance from usda nrcs. We also helped promote mrcs conservation programs and eligibility requirements through social media, remote learning online via zoom invitation, and our website www.pennsoil.org. We hosted three public educational meetings for livestock producers to help them manage their grasslands more effectively to improve soil health and profitabiiy of their farming operations. We also provided consultive asssistance with livestock producers from a paid consultant and numerous educational presentations to help producers beter understand management of stockpiled grazing forages and management of their animals. The results of this effort will increase opportunities for private landowners to manage their lands better, protect the environment, improve water quality management,…
$7,801 spent$10,006 earned by the program26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,137.
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 2020 to 2021, from $35k to $84k (+137%).
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: 2017 96% · 2018 95% · 2019 91% · 2020 83% · 2021 68% · 2022 17% · 2023 39% · 2024 66% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of PENN SOIL RC&D COUNCIL’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 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
Wesley W Ramsey
Executive director
Board chair
Tom Mcclure
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 PENN SOIL RC&D COUNCIL’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
PENN SOIL RC&D COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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 PENN SOIL RC&D COUNCIL.
“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
63% of PENN SOIL RC&D COUNCIL'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. Of the $7k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
PENN SOIL RC&D COUNCIL 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
Government funding PENN SOIL RC&D COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $259k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$259k
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 PENN SOIL RC&D COUNCIL
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
38% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 PENN SOIL RC&D COUNCIL: 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 PENN SOIL RC&D COUNCIL?
- PENN SOIL RC&D COUNCIL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,830 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Warren County ($11,830). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PENN SOIL RC&D COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $18,830 in grants to PENN SOIL RC&D COUNCIL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENN SOIL RC&D COUNCIL?
- Community Foundation of Warren County is the largest funder on record, with $11,830 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENN SOIL RC&D COUNCIL 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.
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 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