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Learning Disabilities Foundation of America

To respond to unmet needs in the field of learning disabilities and to create, discover and stimulate innovative services to meet those needs.

$82k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$82k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$671kEducation$59kPublic Benefit$13kEmployment$8kRecreation & Sports$7kScience & Tech$6kPhilanthropy$6k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$81,961
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LDA AMERICA$81,961
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MONTSERRAT COLL OF ART: $6k → 10%NORWIN SD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6k → 10%LDA OF AMERICA: $89k → 11%FRIENDS OF CAMP LOUISE: $7k → 15%ASSETS SCHOOL: $7k → 9%WINSTON PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $10k → 17%BROADFUTURES INC: $13k → 14%MICHIGAN STATE UNIV: $6k → 16%MIRIAM FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%FRENCH & MONTESSORI EDUC: $10k → 23%LDA AMERICA: $82k → 11%WINSTON PREP SCHOOL: $10k → 17%BROADFUTURES INC: $8k → 14%LDA OF AMERICA: $81k → 11%LDA OF AMERICA: $80k → 11%LDA OF AMERICA: $79k → 11%LDA OF AMERICA: $65k → 11%LDA OF AMERICA: $56k → 11%LDA OF AMERICA: $56k → 11%LDA OF AMERICA: $28k → 11%LDA OF AMERICA: $23k → 11%LDA OF AMERICA: $14k → 11%LDA OF AMERICA: $13k → 11%LDA OF AMERICA: $6k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
PA
MO
DC
HI
LA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$712k · 3 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$712k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+2%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • LD
    LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $671k · revenue +15% · 25% of their budget
  • BROADFUTURES INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $21k · revenue +54%
  • TW
    THE WINSTON PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • MF
    MIRIAM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -11%
  • FA
    FRENCH AND MONTESSORI EDUCATION INC DBA AUDUBON CHARTER SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +4%
  • AS
    ASSETS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +2%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Vincent Smith School

The Vincent Smith School is a co-ed, independent, special education school for grades ones through twelve, serving Nassau, Suffolk, and New York City students. The School specializes in students with various learning issues.

Education
2
Academy of Innovation Inc

To foster students' emotional, physical, and intellectual growth so that they can succeed not only in academics, but in career settings as well.

Education
3
Churchill School and Center

To provide an innovative and transformational k-12 learning community that empowers students with language-based learning disabilities.

Education
4
The Lang School

Founded to educate and inspire gifted and precocious learners who require special social, emotional, executive function and academic supports to realize their high potential, in the greater new york city area, for students grades 1 through…

Education
5
The Chelsea School

Chelsea School educates promising students with specific language-based learning differences in a rigorous, individualized college preparatory environment to become lifelong, independent learners.

Education
6
Baltimore Lab School Inc

Baltimore Lab School is an innovative learning community fostering scholarship and creativity in students with different learning styles. In an environment of inquiry and hands-on exploration, Baltimore Lab School students learn to…

Education
7
The Briarwood School

The briarwood school empowers students with diagnosed learning differences or developmental disorders to reach their maximum potential through diagnostic-prescriptive instruction in a structured academic environment.

Education
8
The Windward School

Windwards' mission is to remediate students' dyslexia or other language-based learning disabilities and return students to mainstream schools.

Education
9
St Francis Day School Inc

A private school providing an exceptional college preparatory program with a specialty in learning disabilities.

Education
10
Stanbridge Academy

Private school for students with mild to moderate learning differences working with families to provide a safe educational environment.

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11
Aucocisco School

To provide comprehensive services to students with unique learning needs, whether they need a full- or part-time school placement, or an after-school program.

Education
12
Friendship Forest Academy

Friendship Forest Academy is committed to creating a safe environment where neurodivergent children can learn, explore, discover, and create. Our mission is to provide high-quality education to students who need tailored and creative…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Assets School; the most unlike its peers is Broadfutures Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $670,924 · EducationLEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA+6 more: $59,265 · Education+6 moreBROADFUTURES INC: $20,937 · Public BenefitMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $6,450 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SPECIAL TR: $6,200 · OtherFRIENDS OF CAMP LOUISE SHICKSHINNY PA: $6,820 · Recreation & Sports
Education$730,189Public Benefit$20,937Other$12,650Recreation & Sports$6,820

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $670,924 over 9y, 25% of budgetBROADFUTURES INC: $20,937 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE WINSTON PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $19,914 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIRIAM FOUNDATION: $10,153 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRENCH AND MONTESSORI EDUCATION INC DBA AUDUBON CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSETS SCHOOL: $7,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorwin School District Community Foundation: $6,498 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMontserrat College Of Art Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Learning Disabilities Foundation of America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Learning Disabilities Foundation of America. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Montserrat College of Art Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Learning Disabilities Foundation of America?

Find your warmest path to Learning Disabilities Foundation of America through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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