Pennsylvania Water Environment Association

Analysis

Pennsylvania Water Environment Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Harrisburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1972, 54 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Pennsylvania Water Environment Association reported income of $614k and spending of $560k, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $427k to $614k (+44%), an average of +9.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 216%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Pennsylvania Water Environment Association sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 71st percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Klamath River Inter-Tribal Fish and Water Commission ($613k), Berkeley Earth Inc ($614k) and Earth Discovery Institute ($613k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 18% and program service revenue 79% of the total. At year end it held assets of $881k against liabilities of $7,937, net assets of $873k.