- Revenue 2024
- $271,190
- Expenses 2024
- $231,162
Program services were 85.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- C30
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 321 W CHESTNUT ST
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).
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
Pennsylvania Interfaith Power & Light inspires and mobilizes people of faith and conscience to take bold and just action on climate change.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Pennsylvania Interfaith Power & Light is a community of congregations, other faith-based organizations, and individuals of faith responding to climate change as an ethical and moral issue, through education, advocacy, energy conservation, energy stewardship, and the use and promotion of clean, renewable energy.
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Education: Virtual and in person webinars, workshops, and programs designed to educate participants on effective actions to address climate change and deliver environmental education. Topics include subjects like native planting, watershed stewardship, energy efficiency and transition, environmental policy & civic engagement, interfaith understanding, and spirituality.
Expenses $78,640
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Conservation: Work on native tree distribution and planting through an engaged network of volunteers. Other habitat restoration practices include clean ups, watershed management and invasive species removal.
Expenses $58,980
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Advocacy: Development of educational materials on current federal, state and local environmental policies and regulations. Communication of materials to members, participants in PA IPL programs and at times to legislators. Limited constituent-focused meetings with elected officials.
Expenses $39,320
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Bike & Hike Journey: Annual program to engage supporters in connecting with others with similar interests in their region, touring PA outdoors, fundraising, and advocacy. Riders and hikers commit to journeying a certain number of miles throughout the month of May with events held across the state.
Expenses $9,830
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Annual Conference: Gathering of faith-based individuals and organizations for a half-day conference consisting of a plenary session/keynote address and workshops focused on spiritual and practical responses to climate change.
Expenses $9,830 · Revenue $2,752
As filed on the 2024 return.
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.
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Katie Ruth
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $77,767
- From this org
- $76,267
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $1,500
- Hours/week
- 36
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Sarah Klinetob
Interim Board President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Reverend Stacy Chavis
Board Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Dr William Cozzens
Board Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Kelly Yagatich Burns
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Phyllis Blumberg PhD
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Tanya Kavorkian
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Vanessa Lowe
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Patricia DeMarco thru Aug
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Nathan Martin thru Jan
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Melinda Krokus thru Mar
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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George Dempsie thru Jan
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Donna Kochirka thru Jan
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $271,190
- Expenses
- $231,162
- Contributions
- $268,323
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $155,762
- Expenses
- $202,205
- Contributions
- $95,344
- Grants paid
- not reported
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2022
- Revenue
- $170,368
- Expenses
- $163,721
- Contributions
- $143,270
- Grants paid
- not reported
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
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2021 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $133,222
- Expenses
- $100,735
- Assets (EOY)
- $80,410
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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2013
- Tax period
- 1 November 2013 to 31 October 2014
- Principal officer
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Barbara Donnini
- Mailing address
- 2100 East College Avenue Suite CState Colege PA 16801
- Website
- paipl.org
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.
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
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$85,000
2022 Climate Action Campaign
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$42,000
2023 Climate Action Campaign
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$30,500
2024 ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELO
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$14,000
2024 Organizational Support
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.