Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC
PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,640,944 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($5,063,306). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Pennsylvania Environmental Council Inc does
Mission
The pennsylvania environmental council (pec) protects and restores the natural and built environments through innovation, collaboration, education, and advocacy. Pec believes in the value of partnerships with the private sector, government, communities, and individuals to improve the quality of life for all pennsylvanians.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Trails and outdoor recreation: pec provides support for planning, developing, and promoting regional trail networks across the state, marketing statewide water trails, and building a recreation constituency and partnership network. Our purpose is to bring social, economic, and environmental sustainability to every community in pennsylvania, and give citizens the opportunity to build personal experience and relationship with the natural environment. For more information, please visit our website at www.pecpa.org.
$3,080,243 spentof which $506,343 as grants$2,066 earned by the program69% of program spendingWater resources: pec works with public and private partners to protect and restore the commonwealth's water resources, including promoting community restoration efforts, improving watershed function by reducing flooding and pollution through adoption of leading management practices and policies, strengthening pennsylvania's overall water resource management programs, and recognizing the work of others to improve water resources throughout the state. For more information, please visit our website at www.pecpa.org.
$924,929 spentof which $120,368 as grants$289,764 earned by the program21% of program spendingAir and climate: pec works to address decarbonization, energy reliability, and resiliency issues through a collaborative and 'all of the above' approach. Our goal is to make pennsylvania a leader in technologies that benefit the environment, economy, and communities. In addition, pec creates partnerships to remediate legacy environmental challenges in the commonwealth. For more information, please visit our website at www.pecpa.org.
$396,961 spent9% of program spendingPolicy: pec works with pa legislators to lobby new policies and regulations affecting environmental and conservation efforts within the state of pennsylvania.
$71,406 spent$134,376 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,473,539.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.3M to $5.8M (+34%).
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 8% · 2018 16% · 2019 17% · 2020 33% · 2021 30% · 2022 16% · 2023 28% · 2024 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL 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. 4 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.
Board chair
Carol Mccabe
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $275k → $2.8M.
5 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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
PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 35% · 2019 42% · 2020 40% · 2021 37% · 2022 47% · 2023 38% — 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
50% of PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
76% of PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL 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. $200k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $324k on record.
- Appalachian Regional Commission$267k
- Department of the Interior$57k
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 PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds and Rivers Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC: 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 ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC?
- PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,640,944 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($5,063,306). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $13,640,944 in grants to PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC?
- THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,063,306 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL 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.
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 45 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