Skip to content

Pennsylvania · Nonprofit

Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Projct

Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Projct (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,838,676 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($1,892,600). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$900k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$4.8M
Net assets
$995k
13/16 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Projct does

Mission

To defend public health in the face of oil and gas development.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Assisting and supporting individuals and communities who believe their health has been, or could be, impacted by natural gas drilling activities.

    $775,230 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $775,230.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($287k)2019 Revenue 101 ($1.1M) Expenses 95 ($973k) Net assets 70 ($200k)2020 Revenue 153 ($1.7M) Expenses 90 ($921k) Net assets 354 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 46 ($517k) Expenses 90 ($921k) Net assets 213 ($613k)2022 Revenue 126 ($1.4M) Expenses 88 ($900k) Net assets 398 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 54 ($609k) Expenses 98 ($999k) Net assets 263 ($755k)2024 Revenue 96 ($1.1M) Expenses 83 ($845k) Net assets 346 ($995k)2025 Revenue 79 ($900k) Expenses 88 ($900k) Net assets 346 ($995k)
'17'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (79)Expenses (88)Net assets (346)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 2019 to 2020, from $225k to $1.1M (+368%).

$289k
$225k
$1.1M
$792k
$1.2M
$797k
$1.0M
$1.1M
'17'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 2% · 2020 1% · 2021 24% · 2022 9% · 2023 3% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Projct’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$114k
’17
$177k
’19
$818k
’20
−$404k
’21
$528k
’22
−$390k
’23
$240k
’24
−$95
’25
11
months of
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

Alison Steele

Executive Director

Board chair

Nadia Steinzor

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

'17'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed54577866
Joined··+2+4+0+1+1+1
No longer listed··120031
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $163k → $875k.

5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Projct’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

Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Projct leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% 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

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 Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Projct.

39%
largest funder
64%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 65% · 2019 27% · 2020 60% · 2021 51% · 2022 39% · 2023 43% — 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

42% of Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Projct's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

58% of Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Projct's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

NY
PA
CA

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Projct is better cushioned than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve10.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Projct

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 12%Fundraising 2%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 4 states

NY
PA
CA
MD

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Community Fndn of Greater Johnstown · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Projct: 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Projct?
Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Projct (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,838,676 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($1,892,600). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Projct have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $4,838,676 in grants to Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Projct, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Projct?
THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS is the largest funder on record, with $1,892,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Projct 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.

Play a game about who funds Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Projct →

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 16 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