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National Summer Learning Association Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

National Summer Learning Association Inc

To connect and equip schools and community organizations to deliver quality summer learning programs to our nation's youth to help close the achievement gap.

$423k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$370kYouth Development$68kArts & Culture$60kRecreation & Sports$20kEnvironment$8kHuman Services$8kInternational$8k
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $239,953, the rows itemized in this filing. The $423,215 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $183,262 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $158k
$9,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC$35,000
WOODWARD ACADEMY INC$21,166
ALGONA PUBLIC LIBRARY$19,500
PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS$15,000
ST LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY$15,000
CHOCTAW NATION OF OKLAHOMA$15,000
NEWARK BOARD OF EDUCATION$15,000
COMMUNITY LEARNING COALITION INC$11,166
HOPE RISING FOUNDATION$11,166
BRANCHES INC$9,500
RHO TAU LAMBDA FOUNDATION INC$9,500
HYPE FREEDOM SCHOOL INC$9,500
JOHN & JEJUAN STEWART JR FOUNDATION INC$9,500
ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND$9,500
EDVENTURE MORE$8,791
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO: $8k → 16%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

MN
MI
NY
OR
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
MD
DE
AZ
TN
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$153k · 5 repeat orgs$387k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
21

Total granted

$153k
$204k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
+33%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $183k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’21’22’23’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • HN
    HORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue -61%
  • E
    EDVENTUREMORE
    2× · 2021–2025 · $49k · revenue +144%
  • FC
    FIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -3%
  • CW
    Community Works of Louisiana Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +52%
  • AS
    AMERICA SCORES LAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +124%
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
Institute for Applied Tinkering

Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.

Youth Development
2
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
3
Avery Coonley School

The Avery Coonley School elevates high-achieving and gifted learners through immersion in a mutually talented community where intellect, curiosity, and creativity are enhanced by optimal challenge.

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4
Wonderworks

Wonderworks educates students to become better-qualified college applicants and better equipped to succeed in undergraduate studies by exploring challenging subject matter and techniques in a college setting.

Education
5
International School of Brooklyn

We develop adventurers. (see schedule o)creative collaborators and intellectual risk takers who are inspired to think critically and seek answers. we create passionate communicators actively connected to their community and the world. we…

Education
6
Springboard Collaborative

Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…

Human Services
7
Wonders Early Learning Extended Day

To create and advance high quality, diverse educational communities that teach children the foundations of life-long learning and social responsibility.

—
8
Austin Explore Inc

Explore austin empowers youth to reach their full potential through mentoring, leadership, and outdoor adventure.

Education
9
InPlay Learning Network

InPlay connects kids and youth to out-of-school learning activities that ignite their individual interests and talents. We are a non-profit that works with parents, school districts, activity providers, and other partners to connect…

Education
10
Garden School Inc

Garden school, in the independent tradition, affirms the primacy of learning. we empower every student in our educationally diverse community to responsibly meet the challenges of everyday life by promoting academic achievement, personal…

Education
11
Browne Academy

The Academy is a pre-kindergarten through grade eight independent school preparing girls and boys in the metropolitan Washington, DC area for competitive secondary schools. The Academy is a diverse independent day school committed to…

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12
Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Audiences New York Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mt Tremper Outdoor Ministries 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

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
21/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS: $20,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDSALGONA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $19,500 · OtherALGONA PUBLIC LIBRARYCommunity Tampa Bay Inc: $16,416 · OtherCommunity Tampa Bay IncMalcolm X Shabazz High School: $15,000 · OtherMalcolm X Shabazz High SchoolPORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15,000 · OtherPORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLSCHOCTAW NATION OF OKLAHOMA: $15,000 · OtherCHOCTAW NATION OF OKLAHOMAST LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY: $15,000 · OtherST LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARYCOMMUNITY LEARNING COALITION INC: $11,166 · OtherCOMMUNITY LEARNING COALITION INCHOPE RISING FOUNDATION: $11,166 · OtherHOPE RISING FOUNDATIONDANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON: $10,000 · OtherBRANCHES INC: $9,500 · OtherRHO TAU LAMBDA FOUNDATION INC: $9,500 · OtherJOHN & JEJUAN STEWART JR FOUNDATION INC: $9,500 · OtherSave The Children Federation Inc: $7,500 · Other+3 more: $18,416 · Other+3 moreEDVENTUREMORE: $48,791 · EducationEDVENTUREMOREWOODWARD ACADEMY INC: $21,166 · EducationWOODWARD ACADEMY INCENGAGING CREATIVE MINDS: $12,416 · EducationENGAGING CREATIVE MINDSMEMPHIS LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationMEMPHIS LIBRARY FOUNDATI…TEACHERS IN THE PARKS: $10,000 · EducationTEACHERS IN THE PARKSHYPE FREEDOM SCHOOL INC: $9,500 · EducationHYPE FREEDOM SCHOOL INCPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $6,000 · EducationHORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentHORIZONS NATIONAL STUDE…FIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDA…ICAN IMPROVING CHANDLER AREA NEIGHBORHOODS: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentICAN IMPROVING CHANDLER…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF …FAB YOUTH PHILADELPHIA: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFAB YOUTH PHILADELPHIAMATH N MORE FOUNDATION INC: $6,416 · Youth DevelopmentMATH N MORE FOUNDATION …Community Works of Louisiana Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCommunity W…Edventure Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureEdventure I…YOUNG AUDIENCES NEW YORK INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG AUDIE…ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC: $9,500 · Arts & CultureARTS FOR LE…BIG THOUGHT: $6,000 · Arts & CultureBIG THOUGHTAMERICA SCORES LA: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsFRESH AIR FUND: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE SUMMER LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsGOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO: $7,500 · Human ServicesWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC: $7,500 · Environment
Other$202,664Education$117,873Youth Development$111,416Arts & Culture$55,500Recreation & Sports$37,500Human Services$7,500Environment$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC: $55,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetEDVENTUREMORE: $48,791 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWOODWARD ACADEMY INC: $21,166 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Works of Louisiana Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Tampa Bay Inc: $16,416 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetENGAGING CREATIVE MINDS: $12,416 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICA SCORES LA: $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetEdventure Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetICAN IMPROVING CHANDLER AREA NEIGHBORHOODS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG AUDIENCES NEW YORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAB YOUTH PHILADELPHIA: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMEMPHIS LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEACHERS IN THE PARKS: $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUMMER LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTUSCALOOSA CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $6,416 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMATH N MORE FOUNDATION INC: $6,416 over 1y, 10% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG THOUGHT: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

New York Life Foundat…Good Sports IncDollar General Litera…GenYOUTH IncorporatedJpmorgan Chase Founda…Td Charitable Foundat…For Inspiration and R…Rockefeller Philanthr…Charities Aid Foundat…Mightycause Charitabl…Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…
New York Life FoundationNY14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New York Life Foundation · Good Sports Inc · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 National Summer Learning Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Summer Learning Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • The Summer Learning Collaborative Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Maryland Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 41 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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