Historic Gettysburg Adams County
Legal name: Historic Gettysburg Adams County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231974727
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Gettysburg, PA, US
- Phone
- 717-334-5185
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies & Historic Preservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $91,201
- Expenses
- $129,108
- Assets
- $272,634
- Liabilities
- $825
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bernie Mazer (President)
- Greg Kaufmann (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Bernie Mazer (President)
- Greg Kaufmann (Vice President)
- Michael Koziski (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To preserve and promote the historic resources of Adams County, Pennsylvania, through education, advocacy, and stewardship.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Investing in Youth Initiative introduces students in the building trades to career paths in historic preservation and restoration. During FYE 6/30/2025, HGAC collaborated with the Gettysburg Foundation to conduct instructional activities at the historic George Spangler Farm. HGAC arranged for professional timber framers, masons and other artisans to volunteer to work with the students. Fifteen (15) students from the Adams County Technical Institute, their instructor and the institute's workforce development officer worked under the tutelage of the skilled artisans to construct a "bent," an architectural segment of a timberframe structure such as found in a barn. HGAC sponsored a field trip for 22 building trades students from the Adams County Technical Institute to the National Park Service's historical preservation training center in Frederick, MD, in April 2025. This field trip consisted of a visit to the workshops for orientation briefings from the various skill elements and the experienced preservationists in each area, a crafts rodeo for hands-on experience and a briefing on the job opportunities in the National Park Service for workers with these skills. In a program begun in 2022, HGAC continued to partner with students from the technology education program at Gettysburg Area High School to construct and install replacement Civil War hospital signs that identify some of the many private barns, homes and other buildings in Adams County, PA, that served as hospitals during and after the Battle of Gettsyburg. The students manufacture the signs, and HGAC volunteers install them.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 64% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.3%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 43.7%; rating input score 44
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -41.6%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.11; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 63.3% of revenue deployed · 43.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 6 filed program accomplishments · $56K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.