Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MILTON HERSHEY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL TRUST
MILTON HERSHEY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL TRUST (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $99 to it, the largest being AETNA FOUNDATION INC ($99). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3B
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $99
- Net assets
- $23.3B
What Milton Hershey School and School Trust does
Mission
In keeping with milton and catherine hershey's deed of trust, milton hershey school nurtures and educates children in social and financial need. See schedule o.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Program service accomplishments milton hershey school is committed to educating and nurturing the whole child-academically, physically, emotionally, and socially. Thanks to the vision and generosity of milton and catherine hershey, every enrolled student receives comprehensive care and opportunity at no cost to their family. This includes: - high-quality education delivered instate-of-the-artclassrooms with small class sizes, ensuring personal attention and tailored instruction. - the physical, mental, dental, and psychological care of all students. - nutritious meals, clothing, and safe year-round housing, creating consistency and stability that enable students to focus on learning and growth. - robust career and technical education (cte) offerings, college-level coursework, arts and music programs, athletics, agricultural education, and hands-on learning opportunities in authentic work settings. Many childrenenrollingat mhs come from environments shaped by poverty-related stressors. In the 2024-25 school year, new students reportedhigh levelsof adverse childhood experiences (aces), including: - forty-five percent had mental health issues in their family - thirty-seven percent…
$275,394,785 spentof which $9,551,378 as grants$412,643 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $275,394,785.
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 2020 to 2021, from $17.4B to $21.4B (+23%).
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.
0% of MILTON HERSHEY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $0 → $99.
From the IRS filings of MILTON HERSHEY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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.
Where its funders are
MILTON HERSHEY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL TRUST draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
MILTON HERSHEY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 679 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like MILTON HERSHEY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL TRUST
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 21 related entities
- Mhst Corpus LLC · disregarded
- Mhst Income LLC · disregarded
- Eaton Vance Trust Co High Yield Ctf · disregarded
- The Ms Hershey Foundation · exempt
- The William E Dearden Alumni Campus Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MILTON HERSHEY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL TRUST?
- MILTON HERSHEY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL TRUST (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $99 to it, the largest being AETNA FOUNDATION INC ($99). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MILTON HERSHEY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $99 in grants to MILTON HERSHEY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL TRUST.
- Who is the largest funder of MILTON HERSHEY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL TRUST?
- AETNA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $99 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MILTON HERSHEY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL TRUST 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 2 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