Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BUCKS COUNTY HEROES SCHOLARSHIP FUND
BUCKS COUNTY HEROES SCHOLARSHIP FUND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,550 to it, the largest being FAMILIES BEHIND THE BADGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ($51,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $161k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $107k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Bucks County Heroes Scholarship Fund does
Mission
Devised for the purpose of providing full four year scholarships for the post high school education to the children of police officers, firefighters, corrections officers, rescue squad and emergency personnel who are killed or permanently disabled in the line of duty.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The general policy of the fund is to grant scholarships of last resort. To the extent of monies available, the funds general policy is to grant full scholarship to each qualified child of a policeman, fireman, rescue squad, corrections officer or emergency service personnel killed in the line of duty. Full or partial scholarships may, in the sole and absolute discretion of the scholarship award committee, be granted to each qualified child of policemen, firemen, rescue squad, corrections officer or emergency service personnel who become permanently disabled in the line of duty.
$21,576 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $21,576.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.3M to $1.5M (+15%).
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.
70% of BUCKS COUNTY HEROES SCHOLARSHIP FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $51.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 BUCKS COUNTY HEROES SCHOLARSHIP FUND’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
BUCKS COUNTY HEROES SCHOLARSHIP FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 BUCKS COUNTY HEROES SCHOLARSHIP FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 87% · 2021 91% · 2022 64% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
56% of BUCKS COUNTY HEROES SCHOLARSHIP FUND's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
BUCKS COUNTY HEROES SCHOLARSHIP FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BUCKS COUNTY HEROES SCHOLARSHIP FUND
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUCKS COUNTY HEROES SCHOLARSHIP FUND: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BUCKS COUNTY HEROES SCHOLARSHIP FUND?
- BUCKS COUNTY HEROES SCHOLARSHIP FUND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,550 to it, the largest being FAMILIES BEHIND THE BADGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ($51,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUCKS COUNTY HEROES SCHOLARSHIP FUND have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $106,550 in grants to BUCKS COUNTY HEROES SCHOLARSHIP FUND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUCKS COUNTY HEROES SCHOLARSHIP FUND?
- FAMILIES BEHIND THE BADGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $51,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUCKS COUNTY HEROES SCHOLARSHIP FUND 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.
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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 7 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