Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SUMMIT EARLY LEARNING
SUMMIT EARLY LEARNING (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,435 to it, the largest being PPL FOUNDATION ($47,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $126k
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Summit Early Learning does
Mission
Social services to children. Annually, sumcd serves nearly 3,000 children in programs and sites covering a geographic region exceeding 1,000 square miles. Sumcd offers programs in head start, early head start, community child care, pre-k counts, mifflin county home visitor program and child care information services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Head start & early head start and related programs - federal head start a program serving children under guidelines prescribed by us dept of health & human service.
$6,261,002 spent49% of program spendingDaycare program - private fee day care & subsidized day-care, funded by us dept of hhs, pa dept of human services, other grants & parent fees under guidelines prescribed by pa dept of human services serving children ages 0 to school age. This program category also includes community child care, child care information services, hssap and pre-k counts programs.
$6,428,685 spent50% of program spendingHome visitor program funded by a grant from the us dept of hhs passed through from the pa dept of human services. Grant funding is provided under the federal affordable care act. Children are eligible (under the grant guidelines) from birth to 5 years of age. Home visitors teach parenting skills, parent-child activity and establish family goals for child development.
$199,030 spent2% of program spendingOther small programs
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,888,717.
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 $7.4M to $6.3M (−15%).
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 78% · 2019 72% · 2020 75% · 2021 77% · 2022 74% · 2023 77% · 2024 71% · 2025 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of SUMMIT EARLY LEARNING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $0 → $141.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 EARLY LEARNING’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
SUMMIT EARLY LEARNING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
39% 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 SUMMIT EARLY LEARNING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 76% · 2021 63% · 2022 95% · 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
79% of SUMMIT EARLY LEARNING's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SUMMIT EARLY LEARNING runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SUMMIT EARLY LEARNING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $62.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$62.9M
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 SUMMIT EARLY LEARNING
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUMMIT EARLY LEARNING: 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 SUMMIT EARLY LEARNING?
- SUMMIT EARLY LEARNING (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,435 to it, the largest being PPL FOUNDATION ($47,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUMMIT EARLY LEARNING have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $126,435 in grants to SUMMIT EARLY LEARNING, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUMMIT EARLY LEARNING?
- PPL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $47,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUMMIT EARLY LEARNING 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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