Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
REGENTS OF THE MERCERSBURG COLLEGE
REGENTS OF THE MERCERSBURG COLLEGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,588,959 to it, the largest being DEBORAH JOY SIMON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($36,500,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $90M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $58M
- Net assets
- $591M
What Regents of the Mercersburg College does
Mission
At mercersburg academy we embrace the values of hard work, character, and community while learning to balance independence with interdependence and individual humility with collective pride. Our students commit to a life of learning, seek to understand the spiritual nature of human existence, and develop a determination to lead and serve the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
An independent college-preparatory school in south-central pennsylvania, the academy offers a rigorous academic program to approximately 445 boarding and day students in grades 9 through 12. In small classes, students and faculty work eye to eye and mind to mind, as they deepen their understanding of their subjectsand of themselves. Outside the classroom, students immerse themselves in theater, sports, music, competitions, and camaraderie. They develop deep friendships with students from next door and from across the world. They explore new concepts and push past their limits. Mercersburg is a place of transformation. Students transform themselvesas they prepare to transform their world.
$41,417,973 spentof which $9,412,748 as grants$33,011,663 earned by the program98% of program spendingSummer programs:during the summer, mercersburg provides for a wide range of opportunities for learning, personal growth, and most importantly, fun. Each summer, participants take part in an array of programs, ranging from the adventure camp series to various enrichment, arts, and sports camps. During fy25, participation in mercersburg's summer programs was as follows:- adventure programs: 43 participants- sports camps: 341 participants- enrichment programs: 66 participants- arts programs: 27 participants
$793,750 spent$715,172 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $42,211,723.
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 $468M to $589M (+26%).
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.
27% of REGENTS OF THE MERCERSBURG COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $6.5M.
26 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 REGENTS OF THE MERCERSBURG COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
REGENTS OF THE MERCERSBURG COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
36% 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 REGENTS OF THE MERCERSBURG COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 76% · 2019 81% · 2020 82% · 2021 68% · 2022 79% · 2023 76% — 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.
How long its funders stay
48% of REGENTS OF THE MERCERSBURG COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
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
REGENTS OF THE MERCERSBURG COLLEGE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
REGENTS OF THE MERCERSBURG COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like REGENTS OF THE MERCERSBURG COLLEGE
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 10 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REGENTS OF THE MERCERSBURG COLLEGE: 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 REGENTS OF THE MERCERSBURG COLLEGE?
- REGENTS OF THE MERCERSBURG COLLEGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,588,959 to it, the largest being DEBORAH JOY SIMON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($36,500,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REGENTS OF THE MERCERSBURG COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $57,588,959 in grants to REGENTS OF THE MERCERSBURG COLLEGE, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REGENTS OF THE MERCERSBURG COLLEGE?
- DEBORAH JOY SIMON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $36,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REGENTS OF THE MERCERSBURG COLLEGE 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.
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 37 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