California · Nonprofit
4 LEARNING
4 LEARNING (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $845,000 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($495,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $533k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $845k
- Net assets
- $597k
What 4 Learning does
Mission
4 Learning exists to support educators across the country to see and nurture every student as a phenomenon through the recording arts and other creative endeavors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
School remix programming - our flagship programming wherein we support schools and districts through the process of school change. We haver successfully launche 9 programs nationwide, including 3 in wi, 1 in il, 5 in ca, and the public school district of philadelphia, pa. The school remix program also includes our annual conference, the remixed conference, which is our culminating professional development event that serves educators from around the country and, sepcifically, within the 4 Learning network.
$519,698 spent$368,356 earned by the program82% of program spendingThe professional development seminar for the minnesota department of education (mde), presented by 4 Learning represents a 3-day experiential learning opportunity for art teachers, educators, and school administrators from the twin cities and surrounding areas. The purpose is to develop attendees' critical frameworks for understanding how the arts, equity, social justice, and education intersect on behalf of participants' students. Key benefits will include hands-on making in professional, state-of-the-art recording studios on the high school for recording arts campus in st. Paul, mn, as well as support developing pedagogical best practices at the intersections of the arts, equity, and education. Learning outcomes include a deepening understanding of what equity in schools sounds like, how to collaborate between teaching artists and core content instructors for interdisciplinary learning in modern creative studios, and how to develop high-level learning productions that address real world problems.
$96,411 spent$14,450 earned by the program15% of program spendingSave the music grant recipient site support.
$16,000 spentof which $16,000 as grants3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $632,109.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $435k to $853k (+96%).
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.
28% of 4 LEARNING’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $250k → $190k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 4 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
4 LEARNING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
41% 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 4 LEARNING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 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
66% of 4 LEARNING's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k 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
4 LEARNING receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $845k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like 4 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 4 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 4 LEARNING?
- 4 LEARNING (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $845,000 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($495,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does 4 LEARNING have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $845,000 in grants to 4 LEARNING, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 4 LEARNING?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $495,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 4 LEARNING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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