Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
SCHOOLTALK INC
SCHOOLTALK INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $825,741 to it, the largest being EDUCATION FORWARD DC ($555,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $826k
- Net assets
- $915k
What Schooltalk Inc does
Mission
Schooltalk supports youth with disabilities and their peers to thrive in school and achieve fulfilling postsecondary outcomes by creating spaces that emphasize self-determination, community-building, and inclusion.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Technical assistance - schooltalk provides technical assistance to schools, government and community organizations, youth, and families to identify and address the complex needs of youth with disabilites and their peers. Specific initiatives include youth leadership and employment-related programs for dc youth with disabilites, including summer employment, internships, employer development, video resumes, and self-determination activites. Schooltalk provides workshops and professional development in related topics and sponsors collaborative opportunities for stakeholders to network and problem-solve together, such as working groups and communities of practice. Schooltalk sponsors the annual voices of change conference, organized and led by youth with disabilites. Schooltalk hosts a website that provides a clearinghouse of resources for youth with disabilites and the people who support them. Schooltalk also disseminates a bi-weekly newsletter with resources and events related to the transition of youth with disabilites and hosts an annual secondary transition community fair and forum for students with disabilites, schools, teachers, families, government organizations, and community…
$1,053,336 spentof which $4,046 as grants$2,355,950 earned by the program53% of program spendingRestorative dc - schooltalk works with multiple dc schools, providing customized capacity building and intensive locally based technical support in order to lower incidents of conflict and harm, to reduce the use of suspensions and expulsions, to increase school performance, and to center school culture around relationships, inclusivity, and accountability. Schooltalk also offers monthly training and peer learning opportunities open to all dc public and charter schools. In addition, schooltalk, through restorative dc, (nonprofit organization), has partnered with the dc office of the attorney general to provide restorative alternatives to suspension, expulsion, arrest, or prosecution through referrals from schools, police, and prosecutors.
$942,488 spentof which $6,514 as grants47% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,995,824.
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 $1.3M to $904k (−31%).
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 0% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of SCHOOLTALK INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Leila Peterson
Executive director
Board chair
Charles Moore
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $33k → $101k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 SCHOOLTALK 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
SCHOOLTALK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 SCHOOLTALK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 59% · 2020 90% · 2021 67% · 2022 83% · 2023 99% — 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.
How long its funders stay
20% of SCHOOLTALK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
94% of SCHOOLTALK INC'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. $130k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SCHOOLTALK INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SCHOOLTALK 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SCHOOLTALK INC?
- SCHOOLTALK INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $825,741 to it, the largest being EDUCATION FORWARD DC ($555,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCHOOLTALK INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $825,741 in grants to SCHOOLTALK INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCHOOLTALK INC?
- EDUCATION FORWARD DC is the largest funder on record, with $555,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCHOOLTALK INC 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.
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 11 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