Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
JEFFERSON EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF ERIE INC
JEFFERSON EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF ERIE INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,408,862 to it, the largest being M J SURGALA TR ($783,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Jefferson Educational Society of Erie Inc does
Mission
The mission of the jefferson educational society of erie is to promote civic enlightenment and community progress for the erie region through study, research and discussion. The society conducts programs to further these goals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organization conducts educational programs and issues publications on various topics and hosts a global summit which features national speakers who present lectures on topics of national and global significance.
$1,567,171 spent$137,188 earned by the program100% of program spendingJefferson alliance for community progress (jacp) seeks to bring together the leaders of the municipalities of erie county to discuss issues of common interest. The jacp also conducts a leadship program designed to bring together individuals interested in community issues and assuming leadship roles in the future.
$17,600 earned by the program
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,567,171.
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 $4.0M to $3.6M (−10%).
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 20% · 2018 9% · 2019 11% · 2020 22% · 2021 25% · 2022 9% · 2023 8% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of JEFFERSON EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF ERIE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Dr Baher Ghosheh
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $512k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 JEFFERSON EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF ERIE 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
JEFFERSON EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF ERIE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
42% 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 JEFFERSON EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF ERIE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 94% · 2019 87% · 2020 91% · 2021 69% · 2022 45% · 2023 80% — 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
50% of JEFFERSON EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF ERIE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
97% of JEFFERSON EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF ERIE INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $571k 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.
Against its field
JEFFERSON EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF ERIE INC has grown faster than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like JEFFERSON EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF ERIE 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JEFFERSON EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF ERIE INC: 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 JEFFERSON EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF ERIE INC?
- JEFFERSON EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF ERIE INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,408,862 to it, the largest being M J SURGALA TR ($783,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JEFFERSON EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF ERIE INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,408,862 in grants to JEFFERSON EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF ERIE INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEFFERSON EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF ERIE INC?
- M J SURGALA TR is the largest funder on record, with $783,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEFFERSON EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF ERIE 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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