Ohio · Nonprofit
DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC
DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC (Ohio) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,243,620 to it, the largest being RICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION ($607,886). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Discovery School Inc does
Mission
We are a private, independent school whose mission is to provide each child the educational opportunity to discover, with perseverance and imagination, the joy of learning and the interconnectedness of our world. Our vision is to bring inspiration and innovation to children through a dynamic educational experience one where learners ask questions, develop academic skills in creative ways, and are active and responsible citizens of the world. Our values are: adventure, innovation, community, inclusion, integrity
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We are proudly designated as an International Baccalaureate World School, offering the Primary Years Program, and serving more than 150 students in Preschool through Grade 6. We believe in constructivist learning - meaning that our students are discussing their ideas together, working to build understanding as a class. Through the use of classroom agreements and the I.B. Learner Profile we share a vision of what it means to be a learner, now and lifelong. Our students make learning take action by evidencing learning in many different ways, being active participants in assessment, and through project based learning that not only builds their understanding of the world, but also creates partnerships in learning between students, classes, the school, and the wider community. We prioritize outdoor learning from the environment around us, taking full advantage of the 40 acres of woods surrounding the school. Discovery students benefit from that idea of being balanced learners with a full academic morning centered around core subjects like reading, writing, mathematics, and the IB Program of Inquiry, moving to three related specialist subjects in the afternoon including woods, genius…
$1,309,193 spent$1,332,587 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,309,193.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.8M to $1.7M (−8%).
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 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 11% · 2020 9% · 2021 32% · 2022 10% · 2023 9% · 2024 11% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Margaret Black
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $102k → $108k.
2 of 8 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 DISCOVERY SCHOOL 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 SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 75% · 2019 43% · 2020 40% · 2021 46% · 2022 46% · 2023 84% — growing more concentrated.
“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
63% of DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $608k 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
DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DISCOVERY SCHOOL 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DISCOVERY SCHOOL 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 SCHOOL INC?
- DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC (Ohio) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,243,620 to it, the largest being RICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION ($607,886). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,243,620 in grants to DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC?
- RICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $607,886 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 8 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