Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION
GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,848,869 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($1,575,000). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 87
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $98M
What Gettysburg Foundation does
Mission
We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit philanthropic, educational organization operating in partnership with the national park service (nps) to preserve gettysburg national military park and the eisenhower national historic site, and to educate the public about their significance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The operation of a 139,000 square foot museum and visitor center. The gettysburg museum of the american civil war features 12 exhibit galleries featuring artifacts, interactive exhibits and hands-on displays that engages visitors of all ages with content that places the battle of gettysburg into the larger context of american history, helping visitors understand its magnitude and relevance.
$8,499,201 spentof which $1,385 as grants$10,191,466 earned by the program71% of program spendingGettysburg national military park interpretive and office facilities include all expenses associated with providing facilities for the interpretation, storage, research and office space for the gnmp. The foundation also works closely with the gnmp and the national park service to preserve land, monuments and artifacts and to rehabilitate the land, returning the ground as closely as possible to its 1863 appearance.
$1,577,727 spentof which $565,792 as grants13% of program spendingExpenses associated with the ford motor company education center, leadership programs, the children of gettysburg 1863 museum, and other education and interpretive programs.
$1,832,996 spentof which $8,000 as grants$779,402 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,909,924.
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 2021 to 2022, from $103M to $97M (−6%).
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 0% · 2021 33% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% 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.
Chief executive
Jaclyn Spainhour
President/CEO (beg. 1/25)
Board chair
Aj Kazimi
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 47 funders, grant income fell $561k → $396k.
19 of 87 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 FOUNDATION’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
GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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
62% 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 GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 55% · 2019 38% · 2020 36% · 2021 53% · 2022 15% · 2023 13% — 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
51% of GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $223k on record — $216k federal, $8k state.
- Department of State$107k
- Department of Transportation$91k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$17k
- DE$7k
- NJ$270
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 GETTYSBURG 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION: 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 GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION?
- GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,848,869 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($1,575,000). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $4,848,869 in grants to GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,575,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GETTYSBURG 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.
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