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The Learning Accelerator

THE LEARNING ACCELERATOR is building an education field where practitioners, leaders, and policy makers learn faster and change systems together to ensure every child receives the effective, equitable, and engaging education they need to reach their full and unique potential.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$153k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$2.1MScience & Tech$610k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.3M
$152,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COURSEMOJO INC$152,500
MINDPRINT LEARNING INC$152,500
ROCK BY ROCK INC$152,500
THE LAB SCHOOL OF MEMPHIS$152,500
BUILDING 21$152,500
ASU PREPARATORY ACADEMY$152,500
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION$152,152
CAMBIAR EDUCATION$77,500
POWERMYLEARNING INC$77,500
LEAP INNOVATIONS$77,500
NOVI COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT$10,000
DA VINCI SCHOOLS$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LEAP INNOVATIONS: $78k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Digital Leaders Now

Transform education by focusing on upskilling teachers with advanced teaching tools and best practices in emerging fields like cybersecurity and artificial intelligence

Education
2
Cognia Inc

Cognia, inc is dedicated to leading and empowering the education community to ensure that all learners realize their full potential while creating a world of opportunities for every learner. we drive excellence in education through…

Education
3
Learning Policy Institute

The Learning Policy Institute (LPI) conducts and disseminates independent, high-quality research to improve learning for all children. A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, LPI connects policymakers and stakeholders at the local, state,…

Education
4
Center for the Future of Learning

The Center for the Future of Learning empowers a vibrant learning ecosystem connecting communities to create future-focused solutions for today while sharing effective practices to advance tomorrow. The Center for the Future of Learning…

Education
5
The Learning Agency Lab

The learning agency lab seeks to improve the effectiveness of k-16 education, especially for historically marginalized populations, by creating free or at-cost resources that are aligned to the science of learning.

Education
6
Alternative Schools Inc

To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.

Education
7
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools

We transform schools to revolutionize school systems, empowering all students with a high-quality education. the partnership's goals are to 1) dramatically accelerate achievement for students in the district's highest need and historically…

Education
8
Innovateedu Inc

Innovateedu catalyzes education transformation by bridging gaps in data, policy, practice, and research to center the needs of the field in accelerating innovation towards an equitable, inclusive and radically different future for all…

Education
9
The Leadership Academy Inc

Harnessing leadership as a lever for change, we partner with education leaders through professional learning and coaching to transform schools and accelerate learning for all students.

Education
10
EmpowerK12 Inc

The mission is to empower education leaders, including principals, support organizations, and policymakers, with the right information, relevant skills, and proper systems needed to continuously improve educational institutions.

Education
11
Ilearn Collaborative

ILearn Collaborative creates equity in education by building the capacity of educators to implement student-centered learning. We provide professional development, consulting services and a wide variety of digital resources, and we welcome…

Education
12
Blue Engine Inc

Blue engine optimizes how educators work together to create engaging, individualized learning experiences for students.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Up Resources and the most unlike its peers is The Lab School of Memphis Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OPEN UP RESOURCES — $577,811 · EducationOPEN UP RESOURCESMASTERYTRACK — $406,531 · EducationMASTERYTRACKCatalyst Education Inc — $297,000 · EducationCatalyst Education IncThe Lab School of Memphis Inc — $152,500 · EducationThe Lab School of Memphis IncASU PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC — $152,500 · EducationASU PREPARATORY ACADEMY INCBUILDING 21 — $152,500 · EducationBUILDING 21University of Kentucky Research Foundation — $152,152 · EducationUniversity of Kentucky Research FoundationCAMBIAR EDUCATION — $77,500 · Education+2 more — $71,428 · EducationROCK BY ROCK LLC — $152,500 · OtherROCK BY ROCK LLCCoursemojo Inc — $152,500 · OtherCoursemojo IncMINDPRINT LEARNING INC — $152,500 · OtherMINDPRINT LEARNING …+1 more — $10,000 · OtherPowerMyLearning Inc — $77,500 · Science & TechLEAP Innovations — $77,500 · Human ServicesIMAGINE WORLDWIDE — $64,320 · Community Improvement
Education$2,039,922Other$467,500Science & Tech$77,500Human Services$77,500Community Improvement$64,320

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMASTERYTRACK — $406,531 over 1y, 100% of budgetCatalyst Education Inc — $297,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetThe Lab School of Memphis Inc — $152,500 over 1y, 45% of budgetASU PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC — $152,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUILDING 21 — $152,500 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation — $152,152 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPowerMyLearning Inc — $77,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLEAP Innovations — $77,500 over 1y, 16% of budgetCAMBIAR EDUCATION — $77,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMAGINE WORLDWIDE — $64,320 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGIVETHX INC — $61,428 over 1y, 28% of budgetDa Vinci Schools — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

New Schools FundCA17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Schools Fund · Gates Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Learning Accelerator funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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