Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MIKAYLAS VOICE
MIKAYLAS VOICE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $279,399 to it, the largest being THE LION AND BLUE BEAR FOUNDATION ($91,355). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $299k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $279k
- Net assets
- $0
What Mikaylas Voice does
Mission
All children should feel valued and welcome in their school and community and understand that it's their responsibility to help others to feel the same.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Inclusion books:mikayla's voice has published four children's books written and illustrated by kids for other kids about having a friend with a disability. Mikayla was born with a brain injury (our friend mikayla), jeffrey has down syndrome (high fives and a big heart), brady is challenged by autism (super brady ~ always on the move!), and dot has a yellow spot (the spot), but these books are not about the main characters or their disabilities. They are about friendship. And kindness.inclusion art projects: students of all abilities work together to create large- scale artwork (wheels of friendship) or small interactive artwork (kaya's kaleidoscope) to celebrate inclusion in school. Their art is permanently displayed in school as a beautiful reminder that it is always possible to include everyone!mikayla's bookshelf enrichment website:"mikayla's bookshelf" includes electronic versions of all four books making it easier to share them with all classes, students, and families. But the books are just the foundation upon which we have built additional enrichment lessons with the themes of kindness and friendship for teachers and older students to introduce and/or reinforce mikayla's…
$241,160 spent$18,728 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $241,160.
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 2025 to 2026, from $403k to $0 (−100%).
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 76% · 2022 56% · 2023 81% · 2024 92% · 2025 84% · 2026 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of MIKAYLAS VOICE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Rita Cheskiewicz
Executive director
Board chair
Mary Mahoney-Ferster
Chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $36k → $10k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 MIKAYLAS VOICE’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
MIKAYLAS VOICE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 MIKAYLAS VOICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 61% · 2019 50% · 2020 57% · 2021 50% · 2022 42% · 2023 99% — 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
67% of MIKAYLAS VOICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
96% of MIKAYLAS VOICE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $137k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
MIKAYLAS VOICE has grown faster than half of the 625 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 625 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like MIKAYLAS VOICE
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
83% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIKAYLAS VOICE: 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 MIKAYLAS VOICE?
- MIKAYLAS VOICE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $279,399 to it, the largest being THE LION AND BLUE BEAR FOUNDATION ($91,355). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIKAYLAS VOICE have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $279,399 in grants to MIKAYLAS VOICE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIKAYLAS VOICE?
- THE LION AND BLUE BEAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $91,355 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIKAYLAS VOICE 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 10 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