Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
DR GERTRUDE A BARBER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC
DR GERTRUDE A BARBER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,095 to it, the largest being CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $179k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $58k
What Dr Gertrude a Barber Educational Institute Inc does
Mission
Dedicated to increasing opportunity and integration into the community for individuals with disabilities as well as developing healthy communities in which all people are welcomed and fully accepted. The institute's approach to its mission is grounded on three fundamental pillars encompassing mind, body, and spirit. The institute provides state-of-the art learning opportunities and education for persons with disabilities, their families and the entire community. The institute provides education and constructive services to professionals and other people who treat, educate, work with or interact with persons with disabilities. The institute provides healthy activities for all persons encouraging engagement in physical endeavors, to promote a healthy and vibrant lifestyle for persons with disabilities and the entire community. And finally, by increasing involvement and participation of individuals with disabilities in the arts, we weave a richer and more diverse community for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Since 2013, the dr. Gertrude a. Barber educational institute has organized and presented the barber beast an annual event featuring a specially adapted 1-mile course designed to promote inclusion and provide meaningful participation opportunities for adults with disabilities and a challenging 10-mile obstacle course for all other registrants. Over 12 years, the event engaged more than 13,000 participants and thousands of volunteers, featured 30+ custom designed obstacles promoting teamwork and community involvement and raised approximately $850,000 to support programs and services for adults and children with disabilities. The final event, which received national recognition for the adapted course, was held in sept. 2025, with more than 1,500 participants in the 10-mile course and over 100 adults with disabilities in the adapted course. In the future, the barber beast will consist of only the adaptive course format emphasizing our commitment to inclusion.
$121,252 spent$101,034 earned by the program99% of program spendingThe autism manual is used to educate professionals treating individuals with autism as well as families of children living with the challenges of autism. The manual has been sold to a variety of users such as individuals, bookstores, and colleges which use the book in their curriculum for the behavioral specialist certificate programs. In 2023, an extensive revision of the autism manual was completed, and sales of the revised manual continue in 2025.
$243 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$1,463 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $122,958.
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 2024 to 2025, from $349k to $204k (−42%).
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.
36% of DR GERTRUDE A BARBER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
John J Barber Iii
President/chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $688k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Dr Gertrude a Barber Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money DR GERTRUDE A BARBER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of DR GERTRUDE A BARBER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC’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
DR GERTRUDE A BARBER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 DR GERTRUDE A BARBER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC.
“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
95% of DR GERTRUDE A BARBER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
DR GERTRUDE A BARBER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC's revenue fell 44% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DR GERTRUDE A BARBER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC
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
33% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- The Cause for Gertrude a Barber LLC · disregarded
- Dr Gertrude a Barber Center Inc · exempt
- Dr Gertrude a Barber in Home Services Inc · exempt
- Barber Services Systems Inc · exempt
- Dr Gertrude a Barber Foundation Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DR GERTRUDE A BARBER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC?
- DR GERTRUDE A BARBER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,095 to it, the largest being CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DR GERTRUDE A BARBER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $21,095 in grants to DR GERTRUDE A BARBER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC.
- Who is the largest funder of DR GERTRUDE A BARBER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC?
- CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DR GERTRUDE A BARBER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC 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.
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 3 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