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Foundation for Eries Public Schools

Foundation for Eries Public Schools (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $294,484 to it, the largest being ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($194,590). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$177k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$294k
Net assets
$333k
6/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What Foundation for Eries Public Schools does

Mission

The Foundation for Erie's Public Schools serves as an asset to engage students, parents, teachers, alumni and the broader community in the regional success of our Citys public schools. We are committed to connecting private resources with student and teacher needs to create exceptional educational opportunities for students in Eries Public Schools.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. FEPS worked with community and private donors to connect them with school-based programs that enhance the academic experience ofour 11,000 students. These included the Innovative Arts Mini-Grant, Belong Garden,Robotics Team and sports teams. FEPS is proud to serve as a bridge between our schools and the Erie community as we work together to strengthen Erie's Public Schools.

    $124,131 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $124,131.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($541k) Expenses 100 ($454k) Net assets 100 ($218k)2019 Revenue 25 ($136k) Expenses 28 ($126k) Net assets 99 ($215k)2020 Revenue 24 ($128k) Expenses 26 ($117k) Net assets 103 ($225k)2021 Revenue 12 ($67k) Expenses 18 ($81k) Net assets 97 ($211k)2022 Revenue 20 ($110k) Expenses 13 ($61k) Net assets 120 ($260k)2023 Revenue 21 ($115k) Expenses 21 ($94k) Net assets 129 ($282k)2024 Revenue 26 ($143k) Expenses 29 ($132k) Net assets 135 ($293k)2025 Revenue 33 ($177k) Expenses 30 ($136k) Net assets 153 ($333k)
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Revenue (33)Expenses (30)Net assets (153)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $282k to $393k (+39%).

$314k
$223k
$229k
$212k
$261k
$282k
$393k
$333k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

30% of Foundation for Eries Public Schools’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$87k
’17
$10k
’19
$10k
’20
−$14k
’21
$49k
’22
$21k
’23
$11k
’24
$40k
’25
26
months of
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

Ina Fisher

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20172025
Listed1517
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $65k → $22k.

4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 Foundation for Eries Public Schools’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

Foundation for Eries Public Schools leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

81% 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 Foundation for Eries Public Schools.

66%
largest funder
87%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 50% · 2019 53% · 2020 80% · 2021 100% · 2022 75% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

29% of Foundation for Eries Public Schools's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

72% of Foundation for Eries Public Schools'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 $84k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.

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NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $211k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Foundation for Eries Public Schools runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin23% · top quartile
Months of reserve26.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−13% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Foundation for Eries Public Schools

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Foundation for Eries Public Schools?
Foundation for Eries Public Schools (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $294,484 to it, the largest being ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($194,590). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Foundation for Eries Public Schools have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $294,484 in grants to Foundation for Eries Public Schools, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Foundation for Eries Public Schools?
ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $194,590 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Foundation for Eries Public Schools 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 10 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