Maryland · Nonprofit
PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC
PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,899,600 to it, the largest being WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC ($500,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Inc does
Mission
To educate the public and employees of government resource management and environmental protection agencies nationwide about environmental ethics; to assist those who speak out on behalf of environmental ethics; and to protect the integrity of individual employees and scientists within the government who dissent for ethical reasons.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Legal: Peer provides legal counsel, assistance, and representation to public employees who may face retaliation for speaking out for higher standards of scientific integrity, environmental ethics, and accountability in government. PEER engages in litigation and administrative processes to improve environmental outcomes. Peer has engaged in over 30 lawsuits and administrative actions in the past year.
$520,794 spent36% of program spendingMembership and outreach: PEER helps employee members expose and remedy environmental problems within their public agencies and educate the public and policy makers on issues facing government employees who work to protect the environment.
$432,312 spent30% of program spendingResource Protection: Peer works with and on the behalf of public employees who serve as stewards of our nation's public lands and natural resources. Peer advocates responsible planning and management, informing policy makers and the public on natural resources issues.
$337,617 spent23% of program spendingField operations: Peer has retained a number of former public employees as field representatives operating out of California, Colorado (covering the Rocky Mountain region), Massachusetts (covering New England), and Tennessee. These field offices are extensions of the national operation and are the focal point for state and local activity
$155,382 spent11% of program spendingScientist Protection/Education: PEER works to ensure the use of science and sound policy in decision-making, the enforcement and implementation of environmental laws, and to protect the rule of law.
$3,922 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,450,027.
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 $1.4M to $831k (−43%).
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 10% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC’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. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $163k → $1.1M.
17 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% 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
27% 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 PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 28% · 2019 26% · 2020 24% · 2021 15% · 2022 13% · 2023 39% — 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
59% of PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC 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 PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY 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 PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC?
- PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,899,600 to it, the largest being WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC ($500,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $4,899,600 in grants to PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC?
- WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 50 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