Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Gemma Services
Gemma Services (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,245,093 to it, the largest being SCHMIDT LUTHERAN HM ($1,125,283). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $51M
- Funders on record
- 87
- Grants received
- $7.2M
- Net assets
- $55M
What Gemma Services does
Mission
Gemma Services accompanies people of all ages through life's challenges using individualized, data-informed support. We envision a world where every person knows they matter.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Martin luther school: a pennsylvania department of education approved private school that is licensed as a private academic school, mls provides an individualized educational program designed to meet the needs of children whose emotional and behavioral difficulties disrupt their ability to succeed academically in a mainstream school setting. Students are referred from their public or charter school, and also from the Gemma Services residential treatment program. Each child has an individual educational plan that identifies their instructional needs and any accommodations needed. Mls is located on a beautiful 35-acre campus and facilities and services include a gymnasium, outdoor recreational facilities, a library, computer lab with technology instruction, reading tutoring, art and music programming, and the full range of academic instruction.
$14,062,606 spent$17,340,692 earned by the program35% of program spendingResidential treatment program: the children and youth served in this program experience serious emotional and behavioral health issues. The rt program provides a therapeutic living environment that includes individualized treatment, supervision, care and nurturing for youth on a 24-hour-a-day basis through outcome-oriented treatment (planning-implementation-evaluation), psychiatric evaluation, trauma informed therapy, case management, behavior management and health care. Available therapies include individual, family, group, a highly structured milieu, counseling, behavioral, and medication. Our rt program includes therapeutic and recreational activities to help enable the youth served to experience joy and opportunites for creative expression. All services are provided with the valued participation of biological, adoptive, and/or foster families.
$10,810,330 spent$13,046,049 earned by the program27% of program spendingCommunity based programs - our community based programs provide: outpatient mental health services; foster family care; adoption services; intensive behavioral health services in a child's home or school; a family empowerment center, and other in-home prevention services to help youth and familes avoid crisis. In fy 24/25 our community based programs served more than 1690 youth ranging in age from birth to 21 years old and their foster and/or biological parents, and our prevention services served an additional 232 families. Youth in foster family care benefit from community placements that address their emotional, medical, behavioral, social, and developmental needs. The program offers structured home living with foster parents who are trained to provide for the specific, identified needs of each child.
$11,851,982 spent$13,381,027 earned by the program30% of program spendingPrevention services, empowerment center,
In-home protective services
$3,177,834 spent$3,811,228 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $39,902,752.
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 $35M to $60M (+74%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 12% · 2022 1% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of Gemma Services’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Kristen E M Gay
Pres/CEO/board member
Board chair
Nina V Rogers
Chair/board member
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 48 funders, grant income rose $213k → $1.0M.
12 of 87 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $24k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lutheran Home at Germantown Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Gemma Services raised.
From the IRS filings of Gemma Services’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 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
Gemma Services has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 24% · 2019 26% · 2020 19% · 2021 17% · 2022 17% · 2023 20% — 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.
How long its funders stay
72% of Gemma Services's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
Gemma Services draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $835k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Gemma Services runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Gemma Services receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.7M on record — $2.2M federal, $464k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.2M
- TUITION OUT/ST OR PRIVATE$272k
- RELATED SERVICES$99k
- EQUIPMENT RENTAL$94k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Gemma Services
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 12 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Gemma Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Gemma Services: 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 Gemma Services?
- Gemma Services (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,245,093 to it, the largest being SCHMIDT LUTHERAN HM ($1,125,283). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Gemma Services have?
- IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $7,245,093 in grants to Gemma Services, 67 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Gemma Services?
- SCHMIDT LUTHERAN HM is the largest funder on record, with $1,125,283 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Gemma Services 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 87 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing