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PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION

PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,344 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($32,344). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2026
$74k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$55k
Net assets
$40k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Pennsylvania Environmental Defense Foundation does

Mission

To litigate on behalf of PA citizens in enforcing the right to a clean healthy environment.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Initiating legal actions against government at all levels to fulfill their responsibilities as trustees of public land and other resources

    $650,000 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $650,000.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($55k) Expenses 100 ($66k) Net assets 100 ($13k)2022 Revenue 138 ($75k) Expenses 85 ($56k) Net assets 256 ($32k)2023 Revenue 119 ($65k) Expenses 131 ($86k) Net assets 108 ($14k)2024 Revenue 148 ($81k) Expenses 92 ($60k) Net assets 273 ($34k)2025 Revenue 138 ($75k) Expenses 118 ($77k) Net assets 256 ($32k)2026 Revenue 135 ($74k) Expenses 100 ($65k) Net assets 317 ($40k)
202120222023202420252026
Revenue (135)Expenses (100)Net assets (317)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 2023 to 2024, from $14k to $34k (+153%).

$13k
$32k
$14k
$34k
$32k
$40k
202120222023202420252026
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,994 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$11k
’21
$20k
’22
−$21k
’23
$21k
’24
−$2k
’25
$8k
’26

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

Cindy Bower

Chair

As listed on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $12k.

Funder
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
2
2
2
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 DEFENSE FOUNDATION’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 ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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

58% 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 ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION.

58%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 64% · 2023 67% — 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.

Where its funders are

58% of PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION'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 $23k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

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

’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 120 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 120 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2026

Organizations like PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION

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In Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

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

PA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION: 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 DEFENSE FOUNDATION?
PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,344 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($32,344). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $55,344 in grants to PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION?
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $32,344 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION 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 FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing