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SUMMIT ACADEMY COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS - LORAIN
SUMMIT ACADEMY COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS - LORAIN (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $93 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($93). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $93
- Net assets
- $0
What Summit Academy Community School for Alternative Learners - Lorain does
Mission
Summit academy schools build hope, success, and well-being through advocacy and education for children with special needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Summit academy schools provides a nurturing educational environment for over 1,800 students across ohio. Nineteen percent of these students are on the autism spectrum, thirty-six percent are sld (adhd), ten percent are emotionally disturbed, three percent have other disabilities, and the remaining thirty-two percent are regular education services. In addition to our highly specialized curriculum, our students are involved in therapeutic martial arts and educational field trips.
$1,498,655 spent$122,143 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,498,655.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M 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: 2017 97% · 2018 94% · 2019 92% · 2020 91% · 2021 91% · 2022 92% · 2023 92% · 2024 92% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of SUMMIT ACADEMY COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS - LORAIN’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. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $22 → $32.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SUMMIT ACADEMY COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS - LORAIN’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
100% of SUMMIT ACADEMY COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS - LORAIN's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $93 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
SUMMIT ACADEMY COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS - LORAIN's revenue fell 27% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SUMMIT ACADEMY COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS - LORAIN
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In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 22 related entities
- Summit Academy Management · exempt
- Summit Academy Akron Elementary School · exempt
- Summit Academy Akron Middle School · exempt
- Summit Academy Secondary School - Akron · exempt
- Summit Academy Community School for Alternative Learners - Canton · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS - LORAIN?
- SUMMIT ACADEMY COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS - LORAIN (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $93 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($93). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SUMMIT ACADEMY COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS - LORAIN have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $93 in grants to SUMMIT ACADEMY COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS - LORAIN, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUMMIT ACADEMY COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS - LORAIN?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $93 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUMMIT ACADEMY COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS - LORAIN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 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