Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PENNSYLVANIA FOOD MERCHANTS EDUCATION TRUST
PENNSYLVANIA FOOD MERCHANTS EDUCATION TRUST (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being RUTTERS CHILDRENS CHARITIES INC ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $73k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $819k
What Pennsylvania Food Merchants Education Trust does
Mission
To promote education for the food industry through providing scholarships, promoting continuing education, supporting programs in high schools, technical and vocational schools and universities, or through encouragement such as lecture series, symposiums, seminars or grants-in-aid.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Promotion of education for the food industry by providing scholarship funds to various high schools, universities and colleges. For the year ended march 31, 2026 twenty-six scholarships were awarded to recipients for the 2025-2026 academic year. The awards help defray the costs of secondary education. Each scholarship is payable directly to the recipient's educational institution upon the start of the academic year.
$63,000 spentof which $63,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $63,000.
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.
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 $594k to $810k (+36%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 10 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.
Board chair
Scott Hartman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of PENNSYLVANIA FOOD MERCHANTS EDUCATION TRUST’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 PENNSYLVANIA FOOD MERCHANTS EDUCATION TRUST's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
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.
Organizations like PENNSYLVANIA FOOD MERCHANTS EDUCATION 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Pennsylvania Food Merchants Association · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENNSYLVANIA FOOD MERCHANTS EDUCATION TRUST: 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 PENNSYLVANIA FOOD MERCHANTS EDUCATION TRUST?
- PENNSYLVANIA FOOD MERCHANTS EDUCATION TRUST (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being RUTTERS CHILDRENS CHARITIES INC ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PENNSYLVANIA FOOD MERCHANTS EDUCATION TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $60,000 in grants to PENNSYLVANIA FOOD MERCHANTS EDUCATION TRUST, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENNSYLVANIA FOOD MERCHANTS EDUCATION TRUST?
- RUTTERS CHILDRENS CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENNSYLVANIA FOOD MERCHANTS EDUCATION 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), 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