New Hampshire · Nonprofit
Return to Roots Learning Community
Return to Roots Learning Community (New Hampshire) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $80,000 to it, the largest being The Fortin Foundation Inc ($80,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $271k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $-2681
What Return to Roots Learning Community does
Mission
Seeks to reimangine educational excellence by offering a nature-based, holistic approach to learning that is rich in academic, artistic, practical, social, and physical opportunities in an inclusive, diverse, & self-directed environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
A learning community for students ages 4 through 18. Return to Roots Learning Community staff and volunteers conduct the activity. We are a play-based and learner led organization where learners design their own educational pathway based on their interests, abilities, and needs utilizing our resources, staff, community connections, tools, and supplies. This activity is conducted at Return to Roots Learning Community's property at 16 whitehall road, rochester, new hampshire, 03867. Seventy-five percent of our total time and overall expenses are allocated to this activity. This activity is funded through membership fees, grants, donations, efa grants, state scholarship, dcyf placement, and collaborations with other organizations. This activity furthers our exempt purposes as it allows greater opportunity for more children to have access to alternative education that meets their needs.
$79,079 spent82% of program spendingWe offer a summer program for children ages 4 through 12 that builds executive functioning skills and sensory systems through outdoor therapeutic play opportunities. Return to Roots Learning Community staff conducts this activity. This activity is conducted at Return to Roots Learning Community's property at 16 whitehall road, rochester, new hampshire, 03867. Twenty-five percent of our time and overall expenses are allocated to this activity. This activity is funded through tuition, efa grants, state scholarship, and dcyf placement. This activity furthers our exempt purposes by providing a safe environment for working and non-working families during the summer.
$17,652 spent18% of program spendingWe offer teen nights for children ages 12 through 18. The purpose of this activity is to provide a safe space for teens to collaborate and socialize as the greater community has little to offer for its teen population. Return to Roots Learning Community staff donate their time to organize and run this program in collaboration with volunteers. This activity is conducted at Return to Roots Learning Community's property located at 16 whitehall road, rochester, new hampshire, 03867. Five percent of our time and two percent of our overall expenses are allocated to this activity. This activity is funded through donations. This activity furthers our exempt purposes by offering opportunities to teens with no cost to the community members or themselves which opens up opportunities for teens who otherwise would have financial restrictions.
$0 spent0% of program spendingWe offer a program called coffee and topics which is a free monthly event that provides support in the areas of child growth and development, education, collaborative parenting, and family support. Return to Roots Learning Community staff donate their time to conduct this activity. This activity is conducted at Return to Roots Learning Community's property located at 16 whitehall road, rochester, new hampshire, 03867. Five percent of our time and one percent of our overall expenses are allocated to this activity. This activity is funded through donations. This activity furthers our exempt purposes by providing education and support to the greater community.
$0 spent0% of program spendingWe offer a program called stay and play which is a free monthly event that offers therapeutic outdoor play opportunities for the community to strengthen nature and familial connections. Return to Roots Learning Community staff donate their time to conduct this activity. This activity is conducted at return to roots community's property located at 16 whitehall road, rochester, new hampshire, 03867. Five percent of our time and two percent of our overall expenses is allocated to this activity. This activity is funded through donations. This activity furthers our exempt purposes by helping to build a strong community.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $96,731.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $11k to $9k (−17%).
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 Return to Roots Learning Community’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. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Return to Roots Learning Community’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.
Where its funders are
Return to Roots Learning Community draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Hampshire, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Return to Roots Learning Community has grown faster than three-quarters 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 Return to Roots Learning Community
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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% 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 Return to Roots Learning Community: 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 Return to Roots Learning Community?
- Return to Roots Learning Community (New Hampshire) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $80,000 to it, the largest being The Fortin Foundation Inc ($80,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Return to Roots Learning Community have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $80,000 in grants to Return to Roots Learning Community.
- Who is the largest funder of Return to Roots Learning Community?
- The Fortin Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Return to Roots Learning Community find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 1 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