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Inner Strength Education

Inner Strength Education (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $227,000 to it, the largest being VAN AMERINGEN FOUNDATION INC ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$958k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$227k
Net assets
$1.3M
1/3 repeat funders
01What it does

What Inner Strength Education does

Mission

Inner Strength Education (the Organization), a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation, was formed in 2014 for the purposes of uplifting the minds, hearts, and actions of youth through mindful, contemplative awareness and developmental thinking to help them realize their higher potentials. The Organization's mission is to empower teens to realize their higher potential by teaching them skills that cultivate calm, curiosity, and care.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Wellness and critical thinking programs for students aged 12 - 18 delivered in school and out of school time, and stress management programs for educators. Skills taught include: wellness, self regulation, compassion, developmental and critical thinking, social emotional skills, positive communication, team building, peer leadership, emotional intelligence, science of brain development and cultural change.

    $302,584 spent$578,296 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $302,584.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($650k) Net assets 100 ($915k)2025 Revenue 87 ($958k) Expenses 90 ($585k) Net assets 141 ($1.3M)
20242025
Revenue (87)Expenses (90)Net assets (141)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 2024 to 2025, from $931k to $1.3M (+41%).

$931k
$1.3M
20242025
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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

36% of Inner Strength Education’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$455k
’24
$372k
’25
3.9
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.

Board chair

Anthony Holland

Co-Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20242025
Listed711
Joined·+4
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of Inner Strength Education’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

Inner Strength Education leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

66%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

Inner Strength Education draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 3 states in all.

NY
PA
MO

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Inner Strength Education runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin39% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−13% · bottom quartile

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

Organizations like Inner Strength Education

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

52% of spending goes to programs.

Program 52%Management 19%Fundraising 29%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

92%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Inner Strength Education: 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 Inner Strength Education?
Inner Strength Education (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $227,000 to it, the largest being VAN AMERINGEN FOUNDATION INC ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Inner Strength Education have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $227,000 in grants to Inner Strength Education, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Inner Strength Education?
VAN AMERINGEN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Inner Strength Education 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 3 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