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Pennsylvania Conservative Energy Forum

Pennsylvania Conservative Energy Forum (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,077,549 to it, the largest being Conservative Energy Network ($1,056,299). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$38k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$120
2/3 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Pennsylvania Conservative Energy Forum does

Mission

To educate, advocate & engage

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provided support to farmers in PA to protect their right to farm while installing solar arrays to produce energy being transferred to the grid.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($291k) Expenses 100 ($263k) Net assets 100 ($96k)2021 Revenue 70 ($204k) Expenses 92 ($243k) Net assets 60 ($57k)2022 Revenue 52 ($150k) Expenses 38 ($100k) Net assets 111 ($107k)2023 Revenue 6 ($17k) Expenses 45 ($118k) Net assets 5 ($5k)2024 Revenue 13 ($38k) Expenses 16 ($42k) Net assets 0 ($120)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (13)Expenses (16)Net assets (0)Peer revenue range

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 $107k to $5k (−95%).

$96k
$57k
$107k
$5k
$120
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Pennsylvania Conservative Energy Forum’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,989 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

’20
’21
$50k
’22
−$101k
’23
−$4k
’24
2.8
months of
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.

20202021
Listed55
Joined·+2
No longer listed·2
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $67k → $178k.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Sierra Clubunclassified
$10k
funders
2
3
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of Pennsylvania Conservative Energy Forum’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

Pennsylvania Conservative Energy Forum leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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

99% 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 Pennsylvania Conservative Energy Forum.

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 98% · 2020 92% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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

Pennsylvania Conservative Energy Forum draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 3 states in all.

MI
PA
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Pennsylvania Conservative Energy Forum's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−11% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−40% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Pennsylvania Conservative Energy Forum: 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 Pennsylvania Conservative Energy Forum?
Pennsylvania Conservative Energy Forum (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,077,549 to it, the largest being Conservative Energy Network ($1,056,299). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Pennsylvania Conservative Energy Forum have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,077,549 in grants to Pennsylvania Conservative Energy Forum, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Pennsylvania Conservative Energy Forum?
Conservative Energy Network is the largest funder on record, with $1,056,299 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Pennsylvania Conservative Energy Forum 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 3 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