California · Nonprofit
LEARNING SPRINGS ACADEMY INC
LEARNING SPRINGS ACADEMY INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,499 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($101,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $571k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $101k
- Net assets
- $-114696
What Learning Springs Academy Inc does
Mission
To create child-centered, individualized, developmentally appropriate programs serving preschool and elementary school children who are neurotypical and those with special needs and their families in an inclusion model.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The specific purposes of Learning Springs Academy, Inc.(hereinafter referred to as the LSA Inc.)are:* To create child-centered, individualized, developmentally appropriate programs serving elementary aged children who are neuro-typical and those with special needs and their families in an inclusion model.* To build on respectful and nurturing interactions between teachers and children, and on each child's curiosity and creativity, we come together as a classroom community whose goal is to inspire a lifelong love of exploration, thought, and learning. LSA Inc's core values are inclusion, diversity, and fairness. LSA Inc. work in partnership with parents, communicating closely, encouraging family involvement in the program and offering support and education on issues relating to child development, special education, behavior management and care. LSA Inc. is also a learning center, where parents participate in their child's early education and learn about early childhood developmental stages and practices, special education services and other community supports and services for young children and their families assist preschoolers with special needs to develop the skills that will be…
$424,727 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $424,727.
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 2019 to 2020, from $16k to $190k (+1057%).
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.
100% of LEARNING SPRINGS ACADEMY INC’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. 4 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
Lucia D'Souza
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $26 → $37.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 LEARNING SPRINGS ACADEMY 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
LEARNING SPRINGS ACADEMY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
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 LEARNING SPRINGS ACADEMY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of LEARNING SPRINGS ACADEMY 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 SPRINGS ACADEMY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LEARNING SPRINGS ACADEMY 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.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEARNING SPRINGS ACADEMY 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEARNING SPRINGS ACADEMY INC?
- LEARNING SPRINGS ACADEMY INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,499 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($101,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEARNING SPRINGS ACADEMY INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $101,499 in grants to LEARNING SPRINGS ACADEMY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEARNING SPRINGS ACADEMY INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $101,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEARNING SPRINGS ACADEMY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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