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MOUNT GRETNA SCHOOL OF ART

MOUNT GRETNA SCHOOL OF ART (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $796,516 to it, the largest being THOMAS A AND GEORGINA T RUSSO FOUNDATION ($593,886). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$350k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$797k
Net assets
$1.1M
6/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 64%
01What it does

What Mount Gretna School of Art does

Mission

Mount Gretna School of Art's mission is to provide pivotal opportunities for artists to develop from the time they are students through their emergent careers.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The Mount Gretna School of Art (mgsoa) conducts an intensive summer program for talented and motivated students in harmony with the community. This, our founding program, attracts college through graduate-level students with a special interest in painting outside in the landscape from direct perception while living in the areas iconic summer cottages. Students live, eat, and breathe art all day, every day.

    $167,016 spent$97,468 earned by the program
    96% of program spending
  2. Four pillars : named after the four pillars of chautauqua, this month- long artist residency provides opportunities for artists to advance their work and connect with new audiences. While the residency is open to all working artists, a special purpose of the residency is to give Mount Gretna School of Art alumni a chance to reconnect with mount gretna after they are students. Art bubble: started as a way to serve socially isolated artists during the pandemic, it is non a standalone artist residency program. The residency is open to all working artists who have access to our housing and studios when they aren't in use by other programs.

    $7,669 spent
    4% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $174,685.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($215k) Expenses 100 ($120k) Net assets 100 ($419k)2018 Revenue 87 ($187k) Expenses 110 ($132k) Net assets 113 ($474k)2019 Revenue 110 ($237k) Expenses 135 ($162k) Net assets 131 ($548k)2020 Revenue 210 ($452k) Expenses 122 ($147k) Net assets 204 ($854k)2021 Revenue 121 ($261k) Expenses 170 ($204k) Net assets 217 ($910k)2022 Revenue 96 ($206k) Expenses 186 ($224k) Net assets 213 ($892k)2023 Revenue 113 ($244k) Expenses 187 ($225k) Net assets 217 ($911k)2024 Revenue 123 ($266k) Expenses 190 ($229k) Net assets 226 ($947k)2025 Revenue 162 ($350k) Expenses 195 ($235k) Net assets 253 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (162)Expenses (195)Net assets (253)Peer revenue range

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 $682k to $1.1M (+56%).

$487k
$506k
$682k
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.0M
$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

72% of MOUNT GRETNA SCHOOL OF ART’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$95k
’17
$55k
’18
$75k
’19
$306k
’20
$56k
’21
−$18k
’22
$18k
’23
$37k
’24
$115k
’25
3.5
months of
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.

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Listed1491010118999
Joined·+0+2+4+4+0+4+4+3
No longer listed·51433343
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $99k → $89k.

4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 MOUNT GRETNA SCHOOL OF ART’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

MOUNT GRETNA SCHOOL OF ART leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

75%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 79% · 2019 82% · 2020 86% · 2021 77% · 2022 73% · 2023 59% — 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 MOUNT GRETNA SCHOOL OF ART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

99% of MOUNT GRETNA SCHOOL OF ART's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

MA
PA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $187k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MOUNT GRETNA SCHOOL OF ART runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin33% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 18%Fundraising 8%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds MOUNT GRETNA SCHOOL OF ART?
MOUNT GRETNA SCHOOL OF ART (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $796,516 to it, the largest being THOMAS A AND GEORGINA T RUSSO FOUNDATION ($593,886). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MOUNT GRETNA SCHOOL OF ART have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $796,516 in grants to MOUNT GRETNA SCHOOL OF ART, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MOUNT GRETNA SCHOOL OF ART?
THOMAS A AND GEORGINA T RUSSO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $593,886 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MOUNT GRETNA SCHOOL OF ART 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 9 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