Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LIGONIER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATI
LIGONIER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATI (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $216,897 to it, the largest being RK MELLON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($96,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $92k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $217k
- Net assets
- $189k
What Ligonier Valley School District Foundati does
Mission
To nurture the full potential of the students of the ligonier valley school district (lvsd) by providing, in cooperation with like-minded organizations, a source of funding to support the arts, academics, and athletic programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The "food 2 go 4 kids" weekend backpack program is sponsored by the ligonier valley school district (lvsd) community which includes staff, students and their families, and community supporters, it is coordinated by the lvsd administration and staff. Backpacks are filled with either easy to prepare meals or snacks for weekends to children who are pre-qualified.
$57,555 spent85% of program spendingThe kidz kare fund was established to assist with students that are indigent or are living in less than standard living conditions and not having their basic needs met. The money raised by this program is used to assist these students of the ligonier valley school district by providing various material goods and services such as; winter clothing, shoes, dental care costs or medical co-pays.
$2,658 spent4% of program spendingDolly parton's imagination library is a program designed to provide books to local children from birth through 5 years old. The lvsd foundation has partnered with dolly parton's imagination library to create a local affiliate program.
$7,265 spent11% of program spendingCollege now - a grant program that is aimed at preparing high school students for post-secondary educational environments and experiences.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $67,478.
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 2019 to 2020, from $78k to $138k (+78%).
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.
100% of LIGONIER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATI’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $12k → $73k.
2 of 8 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 LIGONIER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATI’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
LIGONIER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 51% · 2020 71% · 2021 82% · 2022 35% · 2023 48% — 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
43% of LIGONIER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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 LIGONIER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATI's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
LIGONIER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATI has grown faster than half of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like LIGONIER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATI
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.
Public support
100%
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 LIGONIER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATI: 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 LIGONIER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATI?
- LIGONIER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATI (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $216,897 to it, the largest being RK MELLON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($96,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIGONIER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATI have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $216,897 in grants to LIGONIER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATI, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIGONIER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATI?
- RK MELLON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $96,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIGONIER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATI 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 8 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