Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TRUST
PENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TRUST (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,407,814 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($684,506). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $55M
What Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust does
Mission
The mission of the trust and its membership is to protect, restore and preserve the lands of the central pennypack creek valley so that they remain an enhancement to the quality of visitors' lives, remain a vibrant and diverse natural landscape supporting native plant and animal life, and become the standard of excellence for innovative restoration and stewardship practices to be shared with other individuals and organizations joined in common commitment to the environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Instill public awareness of the conservation and restoration of the natural resources of the pennypack creek watershed and promote the enjoyment and protection of the watershed through research and open space management.
$1,130,901 spent$85,664 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,130,901.
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 $40M to $48M (+19%).
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 7% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of PENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TRUST’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Chris Mendel
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $55k → $767k.
8 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 PENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TRUST’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
PENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders 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 PENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 40% · 2019 29% · 2020 52% · 2021 37% · 2022 33% · 2023 58% — 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
53% of PENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
PENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TRUST draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
PENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TRUST
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 PENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TRUST: 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 PENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TRUST?
- PENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TRUST (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,407,814 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($684,506). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $3,407,814 in grants to PENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TRUST, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TRUST?
- THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $684,506 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TRUST 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 27 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