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Discovery Language Academy Inc

Discovery Language Academy Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $315,103 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$482k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$315k
Net assets
$457k
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Discovery Language Academy Inc does

Mission

Provide skill development and training opportunities in the areas of language acquisition, cultural understanding, and career education to achieve personal, professional, and vocational goals.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. All people derive benefit from multilingualism which enhances their opportunities living and working in the global 21st century. Expand language acquisition and develop the understanding and appreciation of other cultures among members of the South Coast community.

    $238,277 spent$162,743 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $238,277.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($94k) Expenses 100 ($92k) Net assets 100 ($12k)2018 Revenue 113 ($107k) Expenses 117 ($107k) Net assets 157 ($19k)2019 Revenue 152 ($143k) Expenses 151 ($139k) Net assets 189 ($23k)2020 Revenue 178 ($168k) Expenses 150 ($138k) Net assets 431 ($53k)2021 Revenue 160 ($151k) Expenses 154 ($142k) Net assets 504 ($62k)2022 Revenue 444 ($419k) Expenses 289 ($266k) Net assets 1902 ($233k)2023 Revenue 351 ($331k) Expenses 344 ($317k) Net assets 2650 ($325k)2024 Revenue 346 ($326k) Expenses 362 ($333k) Net assets 2588 ($317k)2025 Revenue 511 ($482k) Expenses 379 ($349k) Net assets 3728 ($457k)
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Revenue (511)Expenses (379)Net assets (3728)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $91k to $251k (+177%).

$12k
$19k
$23k
$53k
$91k
$251k
$398k
$398k
$529k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 12% · 2023 22% · 2024 6% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

58% of Discovery Language Academy Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’17
−$706
’18
$4k
’19
$30k
’20
$9k
’21
$153k
’22
$14k
’23
−$8k
’24
$133k
’25
5.2
months of
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

Leslie Ribeiro Vicente

Executive Director

Board chair

Delia DeMello

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed12151413
Joined·+6+1+7
No longer listed·328
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $6k → $31k.

3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 Discovery Language Academy Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

Discovery Language Academy Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

61% 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 Discovery Language Academy Inc.

32%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 91% · 2019 56% · 2020 66% · 2021 50% · 2022 41% · 2023 49% — 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

75% of Discovery Language Academy Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

98% of Discovery Language Academy Inc's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

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CT

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $134k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Discovery Language Academy Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin28% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)23% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding Discovery Language Academy Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $177k on record.

State$177k
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Top programs
  • (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$175k
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$3k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Discovery Language Academy 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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 25%Fundraising 7%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Discovery Language Academy 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 Discovery Language Academy Inc?
Discovery Language Academy Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $315,103 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Discovery Language Academy Inc have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $315,103 in grants to Discovery Language Academy Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Discovery Language Academy Inc?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Discovery Language Academy Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 11 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