Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
GETTYSBURG AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION
GETTYSBURG AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,269 to it, the largest being ROBERT C HOFFMAN TW CHARITABLE ($14,400). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $68k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $38k
What Gettysburg Area Education Foundation does
Mission
The mission of Gettysburg Area Education Foundation (gaef) is to enhance student educational, social, and cultural experiences through community support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Partners with the gettysburg area school district's athletic teams, academic buildings, and parent teacher organizations to help their fundraising efforts through gaef's online fundraising platform and small games of chance license.
$63,369 spent91% of program spendingThrough a donor funded endowment, gaef offers and fund grants to provide financial support to help assist gettysburg area high school (gahs) students with limited personal finance participate in career and technical education, agriculture education programs, and associated student organizations provided at gahs and by the adams county technical institute. Two students and the future business leaders of america chapter received grants from this program during the fiscal year.
$1,075 spentof which $1,075 as grants2% of program spendingThrough the innovation and challenge grant program gaef helps to encourage classroom innovation and/or help solve funding challenges that are outside the regular annual building or department budget. Four innovation and challenge grants were given out during the fiscal year.
$3,500 spentof which $3,500 as grants5% of program spendingThrough the project support grant the organization helps to assist teachers, staff, and student organizations with needs that arise throughout the year. Four program support grants were given out during the fiscal year.
$1,600 spentof which $1,600 as grants2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $69,544.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $13k → $369.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 GETTYSBURG AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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
GETTYSBURG AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 100% · 2022 56% · 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
97% of GETTYSBURG AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k 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
GETTYSBURG AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $17k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like GETTYSBURG AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION
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
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GETTYSBURG AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- GETTYSBURG AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,269 to it, the largest being ROBERT C HOFFMAN TW CHARITABLE ($14,400). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GETTYSBURG AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $17,269 in grants to GETTYSBURG AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GETTYSBURG AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- ROBERT C HOFFMAN TW CHARITABLE is the largest funder on record, with $14,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GETTYSBURG AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 2025–2025), 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