Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MERAKEY ALLEGHENY VALLEY SCHOOL
MERAKEY ALLEGHENY VALLEY SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,593,172 to it, the largest being THE EAMON FOUNDATION (F/K/A AVS FOUNDATION) ($5,620,738). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $190M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $8.6M
- Net assets
- $65M
What Merakey Allegheny Valley School does
Mission
Provide quality programs and facilities to help the individuals with intellectual developmental disabilities entrusted to our care live with purpose, dignity and to provide opportunities to grow and function at their full potential and as independently as possible.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Merakey Allegheny Valley School (merakey avs) provides compassionate, person centered services for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (idd). We operate with a commitment to safety, dignity, and opportunity delivering residential supports, therapeutic services, community engagement, and specialized programming to more than 600 adults across nine pennsylvania counties.who we servemerakey avs supports adults with a wide range of needs, including individuals with severe or profound idd, multiple physical disabilities, and complex medical conditions. Many of the people we serve also require supports for social, emotional, or behavioral needs. Each person receives an individualized, person centered plan of care designed to maximize independence and enhance quality of life.services include:- physical, occupational, and communication therapies- vocational training and employment supports- sensory and environmental programming, memory care, and communication technology homes- campus living, apartments, community living homes, and lifesharing arrangementsservice areas: allegheny, beaver, bucks, butler, dauphin, lebanon, mercer, montgomery, and philadelphia counties.our…
$165,566,978 spent$187,884,699 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $165,566,978.
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 2017 to 2018, from $116M to $95M (−18%).
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.
1% of MERAKEY ALLEGHENY VALLEY SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (17% 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
Joseph Martz
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $197k → $472k.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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: $434k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Merakey Pennsylvania). These are real filings, and they are not money MERAKEY ALLEGHENY VALLEY SCHOOL raised.
From the IRS filings of MERAKEY ALLEGHENY VALLEY SCHOOL’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
MERAKEY ALLEGHENY VALLEY SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 86%; 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: 2017 67% · 2018 67% · 2019 76% · 2020 85% · 2021 41% · 2022 47% · 2023 42% — 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
53% of MERAKEY ALLEGHENY VALLEY SCHOOL'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
100% of MERAKEY ALLEGHENY VALLEY SCHOOL's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $967k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
MERAKEY ALLEGHENY VALLEY SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 180 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 180 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding MERAKEY ALLEGHENY VALLEY SCHOOL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $392 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $392
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 MERAKEY ALLEGHENY VALLEY SCHOOL
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 39 related entities
- Merakey Foundation · exempt
- Merakey USA · exempt
- Merakey New Jersey · exempt
- Merakey Chester County · exempt
- Merakey Bucks County · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MERAKEY ALLEGHENY VALLEY SCHOOL?
- MERAKEY ALLEGHENY VALLEY SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,593,172 to it, the largest being THE EAMON FOUNDATION (F/K/A AVS FOUNDATION) ($5,620,738). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERAKEY ALLEGHENY VALLEY SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $8,593,172 in grants to MERAKEY ALLEGHENY VALLEY SCHOOL, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERAKEY ALLEGHENY VALLEY SCHOOL?
- THE EAMON FOUNDATION (F/K/A AVS FOUNDATION) is the largest funder on record, with $5,620,738 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERAKEY ALLEGHENY VALLEY SCHOOL 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 20 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