California · Nonprofit
CONNECTED LEARNING ALLIANCE
CONNECTED LEARNING ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,730,078 to it, the largest being APHORISM FOUNDATION ($2,285,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $648k
What Connected Learning Alliance does
Mission
To provide online learning experiences and a community for children that foster creativity, problem solving, collaboration, and interest-driven learning.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Consumer program provides a wide range of topics for kids from formal academic courses to more general skills like social emotional intelligence and conflict resolution. The counselors mentor and educate children ages 8-13 though interactive virtual environments like minecraft, roblox, and scratch.
$1,628,877 spentof which $850,602 as grants$61,000 earned by the program88% of program spendingEsports program provides sports coaching and clinics to nasef participants and expands the esports related camps, clubs, and workshops on outschool. The coaches mentor high school esports players that are competing in the north america scholastic esports federation tournament during the fall and spring. There are 350+ teams throughout their season.
$9,415 spent1% of program spendingConnected camps provides a global online community where kids build, code, play, and learn from one another in camps, clubs, and courses. Our programs are designed based on the extensive research in the learning sciences. With our near-peer mentorship model, our programs are run by young adults - counselors and coaches from top universities in computer science, game development, economics, and sports performance - who have the same passion for technology, games, and digital making as our learners.
$204,568 spent$146,165 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,842,860.
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 2019 to 2020, from $374k to $1.2M (+210%).
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: 2021 5% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of CONNECTED LEARNING ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% 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.
Chief executive
Mizuko Ito
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $420k → $143k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 CONNECTED LEARNING ALLIANCE’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
CONNECTED LEARNING ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
25% 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 CONNECTED LEARNING ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 41% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 70% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
20% of CONNECTED LEARNING ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of CONNECTED LEARNING ALLIANCE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $896k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CONNECTED LEARNING ALLIANCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CONNECTED LEARNING ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $184 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $184
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 CONNECTED LEARNING ALLIANCE
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 CONNECTED LEARNING ALLIANCE: 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 CONNECTED LEARNING ALLIANCE?
- CONNECTED LEARNING ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,730,078 to it, the largest being APHORISM FOUNDATION ($2,285,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONNECTED LEARNING ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $3,730,078 in grants to CONNECTED LEARNING ALLIANCE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONNECTED LEARNING ALLIANCE?
- APHORISM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,285,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONNECTED LEARNING ALLIANCE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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