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Launching Educational Assistance Programs Forward Inc

Launching Educational Assistance Programs Forward Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,910 to it, the largest being For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) ($33,989). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$133k
Revenue FY2024
6
Funders on record
$109k
Grants received
$179k
Net assets
5/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%

Against its field

Launching Educational Assistance Programs Forward Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 22,771 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve15.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,771 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($112k) Expenses 100 ($94k) Net assets 100 ($114k)2020 Revenue 103 ($115k) Expenses 77 ($73k) Net assets 137 ($156k)2021 Revenue 101 ($113k) Expenses 101 ($95k) Net assets 153 ($174k)2022 Revenue 104 ($117k) Expenses 116 ($109k) Net assets 160 ($182k)2023 Revenue 97 ($108k) Expenses 112 ($106k) Net assets 163 ($185k)2024 Revenue 119 ($133k) Expenses 146 ($137k) Net assets 158 ($179k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (119)Expenses (146)Net assets (158)Peer revenue range

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 4% · 2020 23% · 2021 17% · 2022 13% · 2023 6% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of Launching Educational Assistance Programs Forward Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,851 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
19
$42k
20
$18k
21
$7k
22
$2k
23
$5k
24
16
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $19k.

4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)50% 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 Launching Educational Assistance Programs Forward 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

Launching Educational Assistance Programs Forward Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 Launching Educational Assistance Programs Forward Inc.

31%
largest funder
77%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 57% · 2022 99% · 2023 53%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.

Where its funders are

50% of Launching Educational Assistance Programs Forward Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $54k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states.

NH
MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

21
23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Launching Educational Assistance Programs Forward Inc

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Maryland

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 4%Fundraising 3%

Governance

14
board members
93%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Launching Educational Assistance Programs Forward 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Launching Educational Assistance Programs Forward Inc?
Launching Educational Assistance Programs Forward Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,910 to it, the largest being For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) ($33,989). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Launching Educational Assistance Programs Forward Inc have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $108,910 in grants to Launching Educational Assistance Programs Forward Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Launching Educational Assistance Programs Forward Inc?
For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) is the largest funder on record, with $33,989 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Launching Educational Assistance Programs Forward Inc 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing