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OLD ORDER AMISH HELPING PROGRAM

OLD ORDER AMISH HELPING PROGRAM (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $130,000 to it, the largest being CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND ($130,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$23M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$130k
Net assets
$5.0M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Old Order Amish Helping Program does

Mission

The program borrows funds from members of the old order amish community to re-lend the funds to younger/needy members of the community at a low interest rate. By operating a helping program, the religious beliefs which are evident in the cultural traditions and lifestyles of the old order amish are advanced to young amish persons, thereby allowing them to establish themselves in the old order amish community. Central to the organization's purpose is the religious mandate of sharing and helping others within the community and the interreliance of those within the old order amish community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. During the year ended july 31, the program extend new loans to young/needy amish persons, thereby allowing them to acquire farms or other agricultural financing needs to become established within the old order amish community. ------ the program accepts investments from members of the amish community. The program returned an investment on all invested dollars. The interest earned could be received in check or added into the original investment balance at the direction of the investor. The investments are all due on demand within 60 days of request. ----- the program uses these investment funds to assist new amish agricultural business activities as defined above. The loan agreements written are secured by the underlying real estate and are amortized over a 20 year repayment plan with a 10 year balloon. ----- all loans provided in support of new agricultural activities are approved by the independent board of directors. ----- members of the board of directors and their families are permitted to invest in the organization or receive loans from the organization consistent with the same terms of all recipients of the program.

    $22,040,464 spent$22,184,721 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $22,040,464.

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 ($7.3M) Expenses 100 ($7.0M) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2018 Revenue 107 ($7.8M) Expenses 109 ($7.6M) Net assets 110 ($1.8M)2019 Revenue 116 ($8.5M) Expenses 117 ($8.2M) Net assets 127 ($2.0M)2020 Revenue 113 ($8.3M) Expenses 115 ($8.0M) Net assets 142 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 101 ($7.4M) Expenses 101 ($7.1M) Net assets 159 ($2.5M)2022 Revenue 114 ($8.4M) Expenses 114 ($7.9M) Net assets 183 ($2.9M)2023 Revenue 193 ($14M) Expenses 195 ($14M) Net assets 214 ($3.4M)2024 Revenue 274 ($20M) Expenses 277 ($19M) Net assets 258 ($4.1M)2025 Revenue 319 ($23M) Expenses 321 ($22M) Net assets 312 ($5.0M)
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Revenue (319)Expenses (321)Net assets (312)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 2024 to 2025, from $380M to $422M (+11%).

$209M
$223M
$222M
$252M
$294M
$336M
$358M
$380M
$422M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of OLD ORDER AMISH HELPING PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,400 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$352k
’17
$221k
’18
$329k
’19
$299k
’20
$347k
’21
$460k
’22
$592k
’23
$789k
’24
$963k
’25
11
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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Listed131212131313131315
Joined·+0+0+1+1+0+1+2+2
No longer listed·10010120
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of OLD ORDER AMISH HELPING PROGRAM’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.

Where its funders are

100% of OLD ORDER AMISH HELPING PROGRAM's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

OLD ORDER AMISH HELPING PROGRAM holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · above the median
Months of reserve11.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OLD ORDER AMISH HELPING PROGRAM: 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 OLD ORDER AMISH HELPING PROGRAM?
OLD ORDER AMISH HELPING PROGRAM (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $130,000 to it, the largest being CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND ($130,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OLD ORDER AMISH HELPING PROGRAM have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $130,000 in grants to OLD ORDER AMISH HELPING PROGRAM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OLD ORDER AMISH HELPING PROGRAM?
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OLD ORDER AMISH HELPING PROGRAM find more funders?
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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 1 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