Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PLEA
PLEA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,433 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR PRADER-WILLI RESEARCH INC ($34,290). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $69k
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Plea does
Mission
Plea's mission is to help individuals and families facing behavioral or developmental challenges though programs for living, education and advocacy. We provide intervention and support programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
School services PLEA serves children and families in the school based partial hospital program. Education, speech and language, occupational therapy and behavior services were provided. All of the children served had formal Mental Health and Developmental Evaluations. All of the children's achievements were charted.
$3,911,645 spent$3,728,463 earned by the program96% of program spendingThe Compeer and PAL program provides supportive services to adults. All participants are diagnosed with behavioral health or developmental disabilities. One on one or group support was given for the purpose of promoting social connection. Compeer is an adjunct to intervention programs.
$128,897 spentof which $107,831 as grants$27,876 earned by the program3% of program spendingThrough the Respite program, PLEA serves the children and families of PLEA by provided care in the form of supervision, outside the school and mental health facility. This program allows families, mostly guardians, time for rest, recreation, and personal care without the concern that their child(ren) are well cared for.
$53,687 spent$54,659 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,094,229.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $2.4M to $3.9M (+61%).
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.
3% of PLEA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Gretchen Kelly
Executive Director
Board chair
Rhea Fernandes
Chair, Trustee
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $21k → $62.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 PLEA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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.
How concentrated its funding is
PLEA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund PLEA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 87% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
PLEA draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
PLEA has grown faster than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PLEA
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 13 related entities
- The Devereux Foundation · exempt
- Turtle Creek Valley MHMR Inc · exempt
- ABH Arizona Inc · exempt
- ABH California Inc · exempt
- ABH Connecticut Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PLEA: 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 PLEA?
- PLEA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,433 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR PRADER-WILLI RESEARCH INC ($34,290). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PLEA have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $69,433 in grants to PLEA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PLEA?
- FOUNDATION FOR PRADER-WILLI RESEARCH INC is the largest funder on record, with $34,290 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PLEA 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 6 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