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SUMMER SCIENCE PROGRAM SPENT $2 MILLION LAST YEAR SERVING 204 STUDENTS. THEN, THEY GOT A $200M GIFT.

It’s the kind of problem nonprofit leaders dream about: What do you do when you get an unexpectedly large donation?

Summer Science Program, a nonprofit with an annual budget of about $2 million, sent about 200 high school juniors to six-week intensive research courses at universities this year. It has also puzzled over what do to with a surprise bequest of an estimated $200 million — about 100 times its annual budget.

Summer Science Program learned last year that one of its alumni, Franklin Antonio, a

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