Massachusetts · Nonprofit
EXPLORATION SCHOOL INC
EXPLORATION SCHOOL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,623 to it, the largest being THE HELENA FOUNDATION INC ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.6M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $52k
- Net assets
- $11M
What Exploration School Inc does
Mission
Exploration school's mission is primarily to operate summer educational programs with diverse student bodies that encourage intellectual inquiry, the joy of learning, responsible decision-making and investigation and appreciation of the world and people and ideas.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Exploration enrolled students from across the u.s. And internationally to engage in courses, workshops, activities, and trips where they discovered the world of people and ideas, experienced the joy of learning and cultural appreciation. Exploration awarded scholarships and grants to students with financial need to bring low-income students to the programs. Exploration provided free educational webinars to the public on topics ranging from college counseling to managing anxiety in children. Finally, exploration provided professional development through online courses, workshops, and tutorials to 70 teachers.
$5,074,095 spentof which $40,285 as grants$3,151,550 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,074,095.
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.
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 $31M to $24M (−24%).
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: 2020 50% · 2021 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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 broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $15k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 EXPLORATION 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
EXPLORATION SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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
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 EXPLORATION SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 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
EXPLORATION SCHOOL INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like EXPLORATION 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% 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 EXPLORATION 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 EXPLORATION SCHOOL INC?
- EXPLORATION SCHOOL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,623 to it, the largest being THE HELENA FOUNDATION INC ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EXPLORATION SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $51,623 in grants to EXPLORATION SCHOOL INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EXPLORATION SCHOOL INC?
- THE HELENA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EXPLORATION SCHOOL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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