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BELIEVE & ACHIEVE FOUNDATION

EIN 27-3440808 EXTON, PA

Revenue 2025
$73,680
Expenses 2025
$104,421

Program services were 94.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1000
Street
606 GORDON DR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO BASIC NEEDS FOR AT-RISK CHILDREN IN LOCAL NEIGHBORHOODS.

  • THE BELIEVE AND ACHIEVE PROGRAMS AT THE YMCA ARE AFTER SCHOOL & SUMMER CAMP PROGRAMS FOR AT-RISK, LOW-INCOME CHILDREN AGES 5-15 WHO ARE LACKING A SUPPORT SYSTEM. THE PROGRAMS TAKE PLACE AT THE OSCAR LASKO YOUTH PROGRAM CENTER IN WEST CHESTER, PA AND THE BRANDYWINE YMCA IN COATESVILLE, PA. THE BELIEVE AND ACHIEVE PROGRAMS PROVIDE ACCESS TO HIGH QUALITY,SAFE,SUPERVISED ENRICHMENT AFTER SCHOOL AND DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS FOR NO COST.

    Expenses $72,112 · Grants $25,000

  • THE MISSION OF THE FARM FRESH MARKET IS TO PROVIDE FRESH NUTRITIONAL ASSISTANCE AND EDUCATION TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN NEED IN A POSITIVE AND SUPPORTIVE WAY. WE CREATED A MODEL THAT PROMOTES A SELF-ESTEEM BOOSTING WAY FOR THE CHILDREN TO SAFELY 'SHOP' FRESH PRODUCE AND PANTRY STAPLES, WHICH REDUCES THE STIGMA OF RECEIVING TRADITIONAL FOOD SUPPORT AND HAS EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS THAT OUR PARTNERS CAN INCORPORATE INTO THEIR SUMMER PROGRAM CURRICULUMS.

    Expenses $27,009

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • FRED GUNTHER

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • LARISSA MEKOSH

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • KATE RYAN MAGEE

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    28

  • MICHAEL RYAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • KARA TODD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    12

  • KRISTIN SHILLINGFORD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • SUSAN FLYNN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • ED TINSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $73,680
    Expenses
    $104,421
    Contributions
    $101,230
    Grants paid
    $25,000
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $143,658
    Expenses
    $112,731
    Contributions
    $158,990
    Grants paid
    $15,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $94,442
    Expenses
    $111,428
    Contributions
    $102,313
    Grants paid
    $59,082
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $78,225
    Expenses
    $89,492
    Contributions
    $139,355
    Grants paid
    $50,525

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $111,516
    Expenses
    $68,878
    Assets (EOY)
    $132,747

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $48,407
    Expenses
    $44,991
    Assets (EOY)
    $90,109

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $170,126
    Expenses
    $101,793
    Assets (EOY)
    $86,693

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $127,974
    Expenses
    $137,810
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,360

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $165,394
    Expenses
    $128,585
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,196

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $128,778
    Expenses
    $138,639
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,460

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $48,481
    Expenses
    $89,268
    Assets (EOY)
    $36,563

  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $93,623
    Expenses
    $46,115
    Assets (EOY)
    $60,500

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2012

Tax period
1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012
Principal officer
FRED GUNTHER
Mailing address
124 SOUTH SHIP ROADEXTON PA 19341

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.