Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SUMMER PROGRAM FOR YOUTH
SUMMER PROGRAM FOR YOUTH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $729,183 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CARLISLE & CUMBERLAND COUNTY ($231,865). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $347k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $729k
- Net assets
- $472k
What Summer Program for Youth does
Mission
Summer Program for Youth, dba supportive partnerships for youth and often referred to as spy, is an organization dedicated to empowering underprivileged elementary-aged children in the carlisle area. Spy's mission is to help these children learn and grow academically, socially, and emotionally. By offering free, quality enrichment programming specifically to economically disadvantaged students, the goal is to ensure more equitable access to experiences and relationships that enrich a child's life, enhance their academic performance, and give every child an opportunity to thrive. Spy has a vision of a community where all children are afforded the opportunity to achieve the future of their dreams.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Spy is an academic and social emotional enrichment year round experience for at-risk elementary aged students in the carlisle area. Participants are children who have been identified by their school counselor as a student who is struggling academically and socially and would benefit from education enrichment, social engagement, and a safe, nurturing environment while not in school. Over 90 percent of children referred to our program come from low-income homes and spy is offered at no charge so that those who need it the most are able to attend.
$228,066 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $228,066.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $333k to $459k (+38%).
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 45% · 2021 22% · 2022 8% · 2023 9% · 2024 14% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of SUMMER PROGRAM FOR YOUTH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Cynthia Thompson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $22k → $148k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 SUMMER PROGRAM FOR YOUTH’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
SUMMER PROGRAM FOR YOUTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% 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 SUMMER PROGRAM FOR YOUTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 98% · 2019 96% · 2020 68% · 2021 61% · 2022 31% · 2023 25% — 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
60% of SUMMER PROGRAM FOR YOUTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% 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
86% of SUMMER PROGRAM FOR YOUTH's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $86k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SUMMER PROGRAM FOR YOUTH is better cushioned than half of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SUMMER PROGRAM FOR YOUTH
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SUMMER PROGRAM FOR YOUTH?
- SUMMER PROGRAM FOR YOUTH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $729,183 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CARLISLE & CUMBERLAND COUNTY ($231,865). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUMMER PROGRAM FOR YOUTH have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $729,183 in grants to SUMMER PROGRAM FOR YOUTH, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUMMER PROGRAM FOR YOUTH?
- UNITED WAY OF CARLISLE & CUMBERLAND COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $231,865 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUMMER PROGRAM FOR YOUTH 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 8 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