Virginia · Nonprofit
ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING
ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING (Virginia) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,756,939 to it, the largest being THE MORRIS AND GWENDOLYN CAFRITZ FOUNDATION ($315,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Aspire Afterschool Learning does
Mission
Aspire afterschool expands learning opportunities that help young people fulfill their potential through afterschool and summer learning programs that support and connect families, schools, and communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Makerspace - aspire was finally able to complete and open our long-awaited makerspace. This makerspace will provide more learning and stem opportunities for our students and families. It will also allow for aspire to continue building strong community relationships, ensuring we are aligned with our core values.
New classrooms - aspire was able to open two additional classrooms. 1 classroom is located at drew elementary school, and the other is at randolph elementary school. Opening these classrooms will allow aspire to serve more students, and enroll students who are currently on our waiting list.
One of aspire's primary objectives is to ensure our students reading and math skills are consistently improving. During fiscal year 2025, 67% of students maintained or improved their reading level, and 56% maintained or improved their math level.
$1,373,133 spent100% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,373,133.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $527k to $1.4M (+167%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 24% · 2018 32% · 2019 29% · 2020 23% · 2021 46% · 2022 30% · 2023 39% · 2024 36% · 2025 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Paula Fynboh
Executive director
Board chair
Timothy Cotman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $103k → $203k.
12 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
50% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 100% · 2019 48% · 2020 40% · 2021 40% · 2022 29% · 2023 30% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
44% of ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $866k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING?
- ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING (Virginia) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,756,939 to it, the largest being THE MORRIS AND GWENDOLYN CAFRITZ FOUNDATION ($315,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $1,756,939 in grants to ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING?
- THE MORRIS AND GWENDOLYN CAFRITZ FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $315,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 37 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing