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GROWTH THROUGH LEARNING INC

GROWTH THROUGH LEARNING INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,824,386 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR A BETTER WORLD INC ($1,087,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$446k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$1.8M
Net assets
$610k
9/12 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Growth Through Learning Inc does

Mission

Growth through learning (gtl) is a secular organization that supports education and development in east africa by providing full secondary education scholarships for exceptional young women in kenya, uganda, and tanzania who would otherwise be unable to afford an education beyond primary school. Gtl encourages cross-cultural exchange of information and ideas, especially promoting women's empowerment in east africa.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Education and development: providing scholarships to young women that allows them to attend secondary school

    $294,261 spentof which $219,733 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $294,261.

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 ($280k) Expenses 100 ($270k) Net assets 100 ($338k)2018 Revenue 165 ($461k) Expenses 103 ($277k) Net assets 155 ($522k)2019 Revenue 61 ($171k) Expenses 121 ($325k) Net assets 109 ($367k)2020 Revenue 110 ($307k) Expenses 110 ($297k) Net assets 112 ($378k)2021 Revenue 175 ($488k) Expenses 65 ($175k) Net assets 205 ($691k)2022 Revenue 147 ($410k) Expenses 152 ($411k) Net assets 205 ($691k)2023 Revenue 117 ($327k) Expenses 137 ($371k) Net assets 192 ($647k)2024 Revenue 104 ($292k) Expenses 142 ($384k) Net assets 165 ($556k)2025 Revenue 159 ($446k) Expenses 145 ($392k) Net assets 181 ($610k)
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Revenue (159)Expenses (145)Net assets (181)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 2020 to 2021, from $393k to $710k (+81%).

$357k
$524k
$369k
$393k
$710k
$691k
$647k
$556k
$610k
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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: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of GROWTH THROUGH LEARNING INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’17
$185k
’18
−$155k
’19
$10k
’20
$314k
’21
−$519
’22
−$43k
’23
−$91k
’24
$54k
’25
18
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

Wanjiku Mwangi

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed11119121313131411
Joined·+0+0+4+3+1+2+1+0
No longer listed·02121203
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $6k → $279k.

4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 GROWTH THROUGH LEARNING 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

GROWTH THROUGH LEARNING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

25% 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 GROWTH THROUGH LEARNING INC.

60%
largest funder
90%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 80% · 2019 76% · 2020 66% · 2021 50% · 2022 59% · 2023 54% — 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

88% of GROWTH THROUGH LEARNING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

GROWTH THROUGH LEARNING INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 7 states in all.

ME
WA
NY
MA
SC
GA
TX

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. $435k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

GROWTH THROUGH LEARNING INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve18.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like GROWTH THROUGH LEARNING 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 16%Fundraising 10%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

47%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds GROWTH THROUGH LEARNING INC?
GROWTH THROUGH LEARNING INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,824,386 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR A BETTER WORLD INC ($1,087,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GROWTH THROUGH LEARNING INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,824,386 in grants to GROWTH THROUGH LEARNING INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GROWTH THROUGH LEARNING INC?
FOUNDATION FOR A BETTER WORLD INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,087,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GROWTH THROUGH LEARNING 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 12 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