Maryland · Nonprofit
FAMILY LEARNING SOLUTIONS INC CO LORI S MELMAN
FAMILY LEARNING SOLUTIONS INC CO LORI S MELMAN (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being MEAD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $216k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $-54123
What Family Learning Solutions Inc Co Lori S Melman does
Mission
To utilize volunteers and professionals to provide counseling, tutoring, group mentoring, expressive arts, and supportive services at no cost to hard to reach children and families, where they live, to ensure accessibility for vulnerable youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provided mental health counseling, tutoring, educational support and recreational services to k through 12th grade students that attend schools in montgomery county, md
$156,013 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $156,013.
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 $128k to $61k (−52%).
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 92% · 2018 100% · 2019 82% · 2021 57% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FAMILY LEARNING SOLUTIONS INC CO LORI S MELMAN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Lori S Melman
Founder & Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of FAMILY LEARNING SOLUTIONS INC CO LORI S MELMAN’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.
Where its funders are
100% of FAMILY LEARNING SOLUTIONS INC CO LORI S MELMAN's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
FAMILY LEARNING SOLUTIONS INC CO LORI S MELMAN has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding FAMILY LEARNING SOLUTIONS INC CO LORI S MELMAN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $10
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 FAMILY LEARNING SOLUTIONS INC CO LORI S MELMAN
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILY LEARNING SOLUTIONS INC CO LORI S MELMAN: 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 FAMILY LEARNING SOLUTIONS INC CO LORI S MELMAN?
- FAMILY LEARNING SOLUTIONS INC CO LORI S MELMAN (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being MEAD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILY LEARNING SOLUTIONS INC CO LORI S MELMAN have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to FAMILY LEARNING SOLUTIONS INC CO LORI S MELMAN, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY LEARNING SOLUTIONS INC CO LORI S MELMAN?
- MEAD FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY LEARNING SOLUTIONS INC CO LORI S MELMAN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 1 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