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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
ASU PREPARATORY ACADEMY$152,500
MINDPRINT LEARNING INC$152,500
ROCK BY ROCK INC$152,500
BUILDING 21$152,500
THE LAB SCHOOL OF MEMPHIS$152,500
COURSEMOJO INC$152,500
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION$152,152
CAMBIAR EDUCATION$77,500
LEAP INNOVATIONS$77,500
POWERMYLEARNING INC$77,500
NOVI COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT$10,000
DA VINCI SCHOOLS$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
PA
NJ
CA
KY
AZ
TN
DC
LA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Up Resources; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPEN UP RESOURCES: $577,811 · EducationOPEN UP RESOURCESMASTERYTRACK: $406,531 · EducationMASTERYTRACKCatalyst Education Inc: $297,000 · EducationCatalyst Education IncBUILDING 21: $152,500 · EducationBUILDING 21ASU PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC: $152,500 · EducationASU PREPARATORY ACADEMY INCThe Lab School of Memphis Inc: $152,500 · EducationThe Lab School of Memphis IncUniversity 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 LLCMINDPRINT LEARNING INC: $152,500 · OtherMINDPRINT LEARNING …Coursemojo Inc: $152,500 · OtherCoursemojo Inc+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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMASTERYTRACK: $406,531 over 1y, 100% of budgetCatalyst Education Inc: $297,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetBUILDING 21: $152,500 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetASU PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC: $152,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Lab School of Memphis Inc: $152,500 over 1y, 45% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $152,152 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBIAR EDUCATION: $77,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPowerMyLearning Inc: $77,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLEAP Innovations: $77,500 over 1y, 16% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

New Schools FundGates FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Michael & Susan Dell …Walton Family Foundat…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Learning Accelerator funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Learning Accelerator. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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