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PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC

EIN 93-1102740 SILVER SPRING, MD

Largest nonprofits in Maryland

Revenue 2024
$2,229,404
Expenses 2024
$1,730,714

Program services were 83.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C035
Classification
1200
Street
962 WAYNE AVE STE 610

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 610). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

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.

  • 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.

    Expenses $520,794

  • Membership 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.

    Expenses $432,312

  • Resource 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.

    Expenses $337,617

  • Field 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

    Expenses $155,382

  • Scientist 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.

    Expenses $3,922

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Timothy Whitehouse

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $116,762
    From this org
    $116,762
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Darrell Carrington

    DEV CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Frank Buono

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Louis Clark

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jacob Malcom

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ben Lomeli

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Maria Brown MD

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Alexandra Bueno

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Christine Dberg MD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Adrian Treves

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Richard G Steiner

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ewell Hopkins

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,229,404
    Expenses
    $1,730,714
    Contributions
    $1,845,057
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,321,521
    Expenses
    $1,671,858
    Contributions
    $1,258,038
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,801,204
    Expenses
    $1,633,580
    Contributions
    $1,704,683
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,177,028
    Expenses
    $1,778,184
    Assets (EOY)
    $831,122
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,323,121
    Expenses
    $1,325,051
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,446,917
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,293,090
    Expenses
    $1,236,251
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,426,913
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,180,747
    Expenses
    $1,011,062
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,344,028
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,273,818
    Expenses
    $1,044,404
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,250,168
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,273,818
    Expenses
    $1,044,404
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,250,168
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,457,087
    Expenses
    $829,164
    Assets (EOY)
    $947,685
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $609,677
    Expenses
    $755,277
    Assets (EOY)
    $333,642
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $772,397
    Expenses
    $913,844
    Assets (EOY)
    $391,466

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.