Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
DISTANCE LEARNING CENTER INC
DISTANCE LEARNING CENTER INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,928 to it, the largest being WSFS CARES FOUNDATION ($60,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $532k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $114k
- Net assets
- $-44627
What Distance Learning Center Inc does
Mission
Distance learning center (dlc) was incorporated in 1990 as a 501 c 3 non-profit corporation to spearhead the stemprep project, a vehicle for producing the next generation of minority researchers in science, technology, engineering, math (stem) and medicine. From the beginning, the dlc designated its target population as being those minority groups who will become the emerging majority in the u.s. By 2050, but who at present are underrepresented in stem disciplines: african-americans, mexican-americans, native americans, native hawaiians and mainland puerto ricans. The original mission of the dlc was to develop innovative training concepts, implement comprehensive programs, and to fund raise to support programs for these underrepresented minority groups. The backbone of the dlc has been its pool of volunteers who have given of their time to create a new training paradigm based on an early start model, a longitudinal training continuum and a multi-institutional mentorship approach
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
I. The monetary contributions to the distance learning center (dlc) allowed dlc to support the training activities of the biomedical trainees during the summer as follows: the dlc provides a 10-year internship continuum to minority stem students in order to significantly increase the number of researchers. Accepted trainees begin the 10-year continuum in the summer after the 7th grade. The interns/students work, live and learn at various universities in the us and canada, and at various governmental agencies such as us government laboratories, the nih and various pharmaceutical firms.
$113,410 spent$56,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $113,410.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1k to $30k (+2222%).
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.
85% of DISTANCE LEARNING CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $11k → $12k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 DISTANCE LEARNING CENTER 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
DISTANCE LEARNING CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
40% 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 DISTANCE LEARNING CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2020 84% · 2022 50% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
DISTANCE LEARNING CENTER INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k 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
DISTANCE LEARNING CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding DISTANCE LEARNING CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $421 on record.
- FEDERAL$421
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 DISTANCE LEARNING CENTER 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% 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 DISTANCE LEARNING CENTER 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 DISTANCE LEARNING CENTER INC?
- DISTANCE LEARNING CENTER INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,928 to it, the largest being WSFS CARES FOUNDATION ($60,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DISTANCE LEARNING CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $113,928 in grants to DISTANCE LEARNING CENTER INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISTANCE LEARNING CENTER INC?
- WSFS CARES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $60,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISTANCE LEARNING CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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