Indiana · Nonprofit
Creating Avenues for Student Transformation Inc
Creating Avenues for Student Transformation Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,429 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($131,648). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $424k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $200k
- Net assets
- $60k
What Creating Avenues for Student Transformation Inc does
Mission
Through tutoring and mentoring opportunities Creating Avenues for Student Transformation seeks to encourage students in Washington County to become contributing citizens who develop critical life skills and a lifelong passion for learning.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Tutoring: CAST provides free multi-sensory high-impact one-on-one and small group tutoring grounded in the Science of Reading and evidence-based instruction for struggling learners in Washington County and throughout rural Southeast Indiana.
$157,780 spent$88,825 earned by the program40% of program spendingSummer Learning Labs: Through a partnership with the Indiana Department of Education and The Mind Trust CAST provides free high-quality five-week summer academic programs to rural Indiana students focusing on math reading and enrichment for grades 1-9. As a key anchor partner CAST drives significant learning gains helping students in Southeast Indiana prevent summer learning loss and bridge gaps in achievement through evidence-based instruction.
$132,587 spent$154,583 earned by the program34% of program spendingOther programming
$99,556 spent26% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $389,923.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $7k to $63k (+795%).
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.
41% of Creating Avenues for Student Transformation Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Cassandra Summers-Corp
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $21k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 Creating Avenues for Student Transformation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
Creating Avenues for Student Transformation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 Creating Avenues for Student Transformation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 73% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
66% of Creating Avenues for Student Transformation Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $69k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $132k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Creating Avenues for Student Transformation Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Creating Avenues for Student Transformation Inc
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Creating Avenues for Student Transformation Inc: 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 Creating Avenues for Student Transformation Inc?
- Creating Avenues for Student Transformation Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,429 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($131,648). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Creating Avenues for Student Transformation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $200,429 in grants to Creating Avenues for Student Transformation Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Creating Avenues for Student Transformation Inc?
- WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $131,648 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Creating Avenues for Student Transformation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing