Vermont · Nonprofit
NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES INC
NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES INC (Vermont) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,597 to it, the largest being LET'S GROW KIDS INC ($184,090). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $326k
- Net assets
- $277k
What Northeast Kingdom Learning Services Inc does
Mission
Nekls offers comprehensive educational programs and services to community members who would like to advance their education, workplace skills, or attain a high school diploma/equivalency. In addition, nekls provides early education and childcare service for children and families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Northeast kingdom learning services, inc. (nekls) was founded in the mid-1960s by eva warner, who began by teaching adults to read at their kitchen tables. Over the past 65 years, nekls has expanded its services to provide adult education and literacy programs, including pathways to earning a ged or high school diploma, english language learning, and the step up to workforce pre-training program. This initiative equips adults in vermont's northeast kingdom with the skills needed for entry-level positions in high-demand industries.in addition to adult education, nekls supports k-12 students through a tutorial program that collaborates with local schools to enhance academic achievement. The organization also operates a 5-star-rated child care center in newport, vt, serving over 85 children from six weeks to twelve years old with high-quality early education and care.guided by its mission to inspire and empower learners from birth and beyond, nekls envisions a community of lifelong learners reaching their full potential. The organization upholds core values centered on fostering relationships, celebrating growth, maintaining transparency, advocating with passion, embracing change,…
$2,673,269 spent$1,606,715 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,673,269.
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 2022 to 2023, from $698k to $1.7M (+141%).
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: 2017 85% · 2018 84% · 2019 88% · 2020 85% · 2021 40% · 2022 27% · 2023 48% · 2024 42% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Michelle Faust
Executive director
Board chair
Barbara Morrow
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $81k → $24.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES 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
NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 52% · 2020 62% · 2021 99% · 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
99% of NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $132k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES INC's revenue grew 21% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $28.8M on record — $68k federal, $28.8M state.
- Department of Agriculture$68k
- Other Grants$18.2M
- Child Care Subsidy Employ/Trai$4.0M
- Children's Integrated Services$1.0M
- Child Care Subsidy Protect SVC$593k
- Substance Abuse Prevention$567k
- Vt Alliance for Children$534k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES 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 NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES INC?
- NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES INC (Vermont) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,597 to it, the largest being LET'S GROW KIDS INC ($184,090). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $325,597 in grants to NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES INC?
- LET'S GROW KIDS INC is the largest funder on record, with $184,090 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 6 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