California · Nonprofit
Pesticide Action Network North America
Pesticide Action Network North America (California) receives grants from 119 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,999,970 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,479,000). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 119
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Pesticide Action Network North America does
Mission
PAN's mission is to end reliance on hazardous pesticides and achieve health, resilience and justice in food and farming. We establish partnerships with impacted communities, support grassroots and coalition organizing, and facilitate relationships and networks of partners and other alliesstate, national and international in order to build a more powerful movement. We advocate for changes in policy and practice as well as culture and power shifts as we pursue our goals. We are one of five regional centers who cooperate to transform systems of food and farming across the globe.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Core programs - PAN has campaign activities in three key agricultural states, as well as national and international programs. Our state campaigns in California, Iowa and Minnesota use coalition organizing, strategic communications and grassroots science to raise public awareness about pesticide harms and build momentum toward a healthier food and farming system. This year our successes included 1) an international mandate at the UN to phase out Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) by 2035; 2) supporting pesticide-impacted communities, farmworkers, and community-scale farmers in their work to support transformational change in state and federal pesticide and food systems policy and 3) promoting the principles of agroecology as a viable alternative to pesticide-based systems and a key to addressing climate change PAN builds network power through strategic alliances with other organizations, particularly those whose members are on the frontlines of harm from chemical-intensive agriculture (e.g., farmworkers, rural families, community-scale farmers and Indigenous communities). Our campaign work often leads to the creation of formal coalitions for which PAN may act as facilitator,…
$1,233,451 spentof which $148,895 as grants$12,450 earned by the program69% of program spendingFiscal Sponsorship: PAN offers fiscal sponsorship to non profit organizations or unincorporated associations in order to provide fiscal and administrative support to mission aligned organizations, and to help grow their organizational capacity. This year, our fiscally sponsored projects 1) increased their capacity to support pesticide-impacted communities and farmers of color, and 2) expanded testing efforts to trace pesticide use in local communities.
$565,378 spentof which $70,000 as grants$15,000 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,798,829.
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.
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 $3.2M to $2.2M (−29%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 8% · 2022 9% · 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Pesticide Action Network North America’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $1.6M.
24 of 119 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 Pesticide Action Network North America’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 119 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
Pesticide Action Network North America has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
41% 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 Pesticide Action Network North America.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 16% · 2019 14% · 2020 21% · 2021 23% · 2022 20% · 2023 20% — 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.
How long its funders stay
34% of Pesticide Action Network North America's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
83% of Pesticide Action Network North America's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
Pesticide Action Network North America runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Pesticide Action Network North America
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Pesticide Action Network North America: 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 Pesticide Action Network North America?
- Pesticide Action Network North America (California) receives grants from 119 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,999,970 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,479,000). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Pesticide Action Network North America have?
- IRS filings report 119 organizations giving $15,999,970 in grants to Pesticide Action Network North America, 60 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pesticide Action Network North America?
- THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,479,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pesticide Action Network North America find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 119 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