Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $768,602 to it, the largest being CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND ($150,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $769k
- Net assets
- $38M
What Valley Forge Educational Services does
Mission
Vfes offers a continuum of educational, summer and employment-related programs for children and adults with disabilities. The hallmark of vfes programming is its collaborative and holistic approach to each child, adolescent and adult, recognizing his or her unique abilities and needs. The organization is committed to helping students and participants develop a strong sense of self-worth, discover their talents, reach their goals and plan for their futures. Vfes continues to focus on its mission of preparing children and adults with special needs to realize their potential as contributing members of the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In the 2024-25 fiscal year, Valley Forge Educational Services (vfes) began doing business as (dba) the vanguard school and services (vss) to build on the 65-year legacy of the vanguard school. Through this rebranded name, vss continues to offer a continuum of educational, recreational, and employment-related services for neurodivergent children and adults. Vss's mission is to prepare children and adults with special needs to realize their potential as contributing members of the community. Vss fulfills this mission through three signature programs: the vanguard school, vanguard recreation services, and vanguard employment services.the vanguard schoolestablished in 1959, the vanguard school was the first pennsylvania-licensed approved private school (aps). The vanguard school serves students aged 5-22 who require a high degree of individualized instruction and clinical support and intervention. Students who are educated at the vanguard school have been identified as individuals with autism spectrum disorders, developmental disabilities, speech-language deficits, intellectual disabilities, and students with social-emotional, executive functioning, and behavioral difficulties.…
$20,782,703 spentof which $76,103 as grants$24,020,431 earned by the program92% of program spendingVanguard recreation services (vrs)vrs offers educational and recreational programming for children and adults, 7 years of age and older, and adults with disabilities and learning challenges. Programs are designed to support participants as they cultivate friendships, expand their repertoire of leisure and recreational activities, and practice social and daily living skills away from home.recreational services include camps, respite, social gatherings, community activities, and retreats. In the 2024-25 fiscal year, vrs supported 50 individuals, ages 7-22, at camp vanguard, which was run at camp kweebec in schwenksville, pa. Vrs's retreats at mt. Gilead in stroudsburg, pa, served 28 participants, and a retreat to camp innabah served 13 participants. Vrs also organized two adult retreats to fenwick island, de, providing respite experiences to 18 adult participants, ages 22-40.vrs continued to provide meaningful social activities for adults with special needs by hosting dances, teaching lifelong activities, meeting for lunch at various locations, and organizing community-based day trips to places such as the zoo, amusement parks, fall hayrides, bowling establishments, museums,…
$1,760,819 spent$2,298,471 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,543,522.
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 $28M to $34M (+22%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 5% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
William E Hennessey Cpa
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $8k → $48k.
6 of 25 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 VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES’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
VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
55% 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 VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 64% · 2019 71% · 2020 58% · 2021 38% · 2022 28% · 2023 31% — 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
38% of VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
70% of VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $163k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35k on record.
- TUITION OUT/ST OR PRIVATE$35k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: 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 VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES?
- VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $768,602 to it, the largest being CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND ($150,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $768,602 in grants to VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES?
- CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES 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 25 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing