Pennsylvania Environmental Council Inc
Pittsburgh, PA · EIN 23-7286159. Reported 55 grants totalling $625,967 to 46 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Pennsylvania Environmental Council Inc, by its IRS classification it is an alliance or advocacy organization in environment (NTEE C010).
- How spread out its giving is. 46 distinct organizations, with 8% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 25% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $12,000; the smallest was $5,300 and the largest $38,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid-Atlantic Youth Anglers & Outdoors Partners Dba Legacy Land Water Partne | Cochranville, PA | $47,100 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds and Rivers | Pittsburgh, PA | $25,522 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mountain Watershed Association | Melcroft, PA | $23,654 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| 9TH Street Youth & Community Center | Chester, PA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor Inc | Easton, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Disability Pride Philadelphia Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| East Falls Development Corporation | Phila, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Girls in Gear | Montclair, NJ | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hike Heal Wellness LLC | Philadelhpia, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| In Color Birding Club | Royersford, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ohiopyle Biking Club | Ohiopyle, PA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| She Is Focused Community Inc | Collingdale, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Superior Arts Institute | Camden, NJ | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Academy in Manayunk Inc | Conshohocken, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chester Upland Youth Soccer | Media, PA | $19,400 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Tubmill Trout Club Unlimited | New Florence, PA | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Artworks Trenton Inc | Trenton, NJ | $16,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Urbanpromise Trenton Inc | Trenton, NJ | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Neighborhood Collaborative Community Gardens | Camden, NJ | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| City of Scranton | Scranton, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Countryside Conservancy | La Plume, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lake Wallenpaupack Watershed Management District | Hawley, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Natural Lands Trust Incorporated | Media, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Riverfront Parks Committee | Wilkesbarre, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Watershed Coalition of the Leigh Valley | Nazareth, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve | Orlando, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Willistown Conservation Trust Inc | Newtown Sq, PA | $9,983 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lackawanna Heritage Valley Authority | Scranton, PA | $9,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sewickley Creek Watershed Association | Greensburg, PA | $9,417 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chester Ridley Crum Watersheds Association | Newtown Sq, PA | $9,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Westmoreland Land Trust | Latrobe, PA | $8,781 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Camp Freedom Inc | Allentown, PA | $8,256 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Neighborhood Bike Works | Philadelphia, PA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Valley in Motion | Jermyn, PA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Western Pennsylvania Conservancy | Pittsburgh, PA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wayne County Community Foundation | Honesdale, PA | $7,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Regional Trail Corporation | West Newton, PA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Buck Hill Conservation Foundation | Buck Hill Fls, PA | $6,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lacawac Sanctuary Foundation Inc | Lake Ariel, PA | $6,525 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vandergrift Improvement Program Inc | Vandergrift, PA | $6,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Lands at Hillside Farms | Shavertown, PA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Westmoreland County Historical Society | Greensburg, PA | $5,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Stewards of Twin Lakes | Shohola, PA | $5,495 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| County of Lackawanna | Scranton, PA | $5,384 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Branch Land Trust | Dallas, PA | $5,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
8 of 46 (17%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Mid-Atlantic Youth Anglers & Outdoors Partners Dba Legacy Land Water Partne
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH CIRCUIT TRAILS COALITION COMMUNITY GRANT PROGRAM GRANTEES - Cultureworks Greater Philadelphia
GET FRESH FAMILIES OUTSIDE - Superior Arts Institute
ADVOCACYTHRUART - USE OUR PARKS ONTHECIRCUIT - Aim Academy
SAMS OASIS AT AIM ACADEMY: PEDAL & PADDLE PROGRAM - East Falls Development Corporation
EAST FALLS RIVER LANDING PHASE II: ACTIVATING, ENGAGING + CONNECTING TO THE RIVER - Girls in Gear
GIRLS IN GEAR PHILADELPHIA PROGRAM
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 38 of 46 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 9 | $93,456 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 4 | $29,442 | $7,491 |
| 2023 | 16 | $206,828 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 26 | $296,241 | $9,841 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
85% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Pennsylvania Environmental Council Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 810 River Avenue Suite 201, Pittsburgh, PA, 15212.
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