Main Street Gettysburg Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232595192
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Gettysburg, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7173373491
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $297,173
- Expenses
- $336,137
- Assets
- $403,783
- Liabilities
- $8,868
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JILL SELLERS (President)
Highest reported compensation
- JILL SELLERS (President): $81,525 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Main Street Gettysburg is a non-profit organization committed to the preservation and revitalization of Historic Gettysburg for the benefit of its citizens, businesses, and visitors.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Baltimore Street Historic Pathway Revitalization Project is a grass roots community initiative to improve the Baltimore Street corridor. MISSION OF THE PROJECTTo improve the economy, create jobs and enhance the quality of life within the Baltimore Street District.VISIONWhen entering the major gateways into Gettysburg, having a visually beautiful and consistent design along the main arteries that showcases the historic and cultural ambiance of the town. Since Baltimore Street is the backbone of the town, it is important that the revitalization of this street draws residents, businesses and visitors to the district.COMMUNITY GOALS & OBJECTIVESCapture & showcase the history, stories, beauty, culture, arts and authenticity of the Baltimore Street District.Creatively blend the nationally recognized history with 21st century amenities.Balance and incorporate the "green" approach with technology, artistic creativity and historic authenticity.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 85% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.3%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 82.4%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $22.77 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 88.3%; rating input score 88; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.1%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.3%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.3% of revenue deployed · 82.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $277K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $82K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.