Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $524,069 to it, the largest being THE PEIRCE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($150,855). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $705k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $524k
- Net assets
- $175k
What Learning Disabilities Association of America does
Mission
Lda's mission is to create opportunities for success for all individuals affected by learning disabilities and to reduce the incidence of learning disabilities in future generations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
An annual conference is held to inform educators and the public about developments and issues relating to the training and education of persons with learning disabilities.
$301,903 spent$411,906 earned by the program52% of program spendingThe annual membership provides individuals who have an interest in learning disabilities with the following: bi-monthly newsletter, 3 levels of membership, and discounts on registration to annual conferences.
$71,819 spent$66,762 earned by the program12% of program spendingThe healthy childern's project is here to bridge the gap between our knowledge of environmental factors that impact developing fetuses, the newborn or young children and the actions we are taking to minimize or eliminate those factors.
$76,590 spent$72,419 earned by the program13% of program spendingThe organization provides various other programs that support its mission with individuals affected by learning disabilities.
$132,570 spent$50,811 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $582,882.
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 $713k to $504k (−29%).
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: 2021 5% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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
Cindy Cipoletti
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $40k → $45k.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $671k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Learning Disabilities Foundation of America). These are real filings, and they are not money LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA raised.
From the IRS filings of LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA’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
LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
56% 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 LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 74% · 2019 59% · 2020 98% · 2021 48% · 2022 28% · 2023 84% — growing more concentrated.
“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
13% of LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.
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
LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $109k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Ld Foundation of America · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: 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 LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA?
- LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $524,069 to it, the largest being THE PEIRCE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($150,855). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $524,069 in grants to LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA?
- THE PEIRCE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,855 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing