Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATION FUND
CEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATION FUND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,222,951 to it, the largest being THE JOYCE FOUNDATION ($1,005,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Ceasefire Pennsylvania Education Fund does
Mission
Ceasefirepa education fund is a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to ensuring not another life is lost to gun violence. We build awareness about the impacts of gun violence in the commonwealth by lifting up the voices of survivors and analyzing data on the drivers of violence in the commonwealth. We run public education campaigns to foster civic engagement and build diverse coalitions that reflect the full toll of this public health crisis. And, we help decision-makers understand the real-world impacts of their actions and inaction.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2024-2025, ceasefirepa education fund advanced its charitable mission by providing nonpartisan public education, conducting research, and supporting community engagement on gun violence as a public health issue. We published a report highlighting the impact of violence intervention programs, released new research on firearm suicide perceptions in rural pennsylvania, and partnered with community and faith leaders to deepen understanding of prevention strategies. We organized and led community events, hosted informational meetings, trained volunteers for nonpartisan civic engagement, and supported community based vigils to raise awareness about the impact of gun violence. All activities were conducted for educational and charitable purposes consistent with our 501(c)(3) mission.
$1,160,202 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,160,202.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $2.1M to $2.9M (+34%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of CEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Gary Perecko
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $162k → $744k.
15 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 CEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATION FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 funders by total. 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
CEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATION FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
58% 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 CEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 43% · 2019 71% · 2020 58% · 2021 39% · 2022 40% · 2023 27% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
42% of CEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
57% of CEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATION FUND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.8M that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
CEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATION FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 431 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATION FUND
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATION 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 CEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATION FUND?
- CEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATION FUND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,222,951 to it, the largest being THE JOYCE FOUNDATION ($1,005,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $4,222,951 in grants to CEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATION FUND, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATION FUND?
- THE JOYCE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,005,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATION 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 36 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