Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Learnserve International
Learnserve International (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,790,287 to it, the largest being KIMSEY FOUNDATION ($200,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $787k
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $648k
What Learnserve International does
Mission
LearnServe international equips high school students from diverse backgrounds with the entrepreneurial vision, tenacity, confidence and leadership skills needed to tackle social challenges at home and abroad.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
LearnServe Fellows Program:The LearnServe Fellows Program is a 7-month program with a mix of weekly in-person and some virtual meetings. Participants identify the global issues they care about, centered around the UN Sustainability Goals. Applying human- and equity-centered design methods, LearnServe Fellows research, ideate, test, design, and launch social ventures addressing their chosen causes. The program culminates in a pitch competition with a chance to qualify for matching seed grants of up to $200. During the financial year ending June 30, 2025, 57 Fellows completed the program inWashington, DC. During the same year, 55 students completed the LearnServe FellowsProgram in Lusaka, Zambia and 20 students completed the program in Bataan, Costa Rica, facilitated by LearnServes partner organizations in each country.
$291,360 spent72% of program spendingLearnServe Abroad and Incubator:The LearnServe Incubator is a 6-month virtual program that builds on the skills learned during the Fellows Program and brings together young social entrepreneurs from around the world to further develop their social ventures with a focus on human- and equity-centered design, iterative customer discovery, and entrepreneurship skills as well as cross-cultural competencies.In 2024-25, participants from the U.S. and Zambia introduced their ventures to a panel of judges at a virtual pitch competition. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, 17 participants completed the virtual Incubator program.LearnServes Global travel capstone program gives participants the opportunity to understand social innovation through a global lens. Typically students from Washington, DC join Zambian peers for 2 weeks of leadership development, cross cultural exchange, and direct service. In 2025, students from Washington, DC were unable to travel but sustained virtual collaboration with peers in Zambia.
$82,165 spent20% of program spendingOther Programs:General Programs includes Seeding Social Innovation, the in-school social entrepreneurship program, and initiatives to develop new programs and reach new audiences. During fiscal year 2024-25, Seeding Social Innovation was implemented at one school in the Washington, DC area.
$31,766 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $405,291.
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 2020 to 2021, from $540k to $823k (+53%).
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: 2020 11% · 2021 1% · 2022 6% · 2024 13% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Learnserve International’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. 3 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
Scott A Rechler
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $70k → $307k.
11 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 Learnserve International’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. 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
Learnserve International has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
40% 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 Learnserve International.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 31% · 2019 24% · 2020 15% · 2021 20% · 2022 18% · 2023 26% — 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
38% of Learnserve International's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
64% of Learnserve International's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $607k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
Learnserve International runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Learnserve International
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Learnserve International: 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 Learnserve International?
- Learnserve International (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,790,287 to it, the largest being KIMSEY FOUNDATION ($200,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Learnserve International have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $1,790,287 in grants to Learnserve International, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Learnserve International?
- KIMSEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Learnserve International find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 40 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