Indiana · Nonprofit
COUNCIL FOR ADULT AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
COUNCIL FOR ADULT AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING (Indiana) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,811,955 to it, the largest being Ascendium Education Solutions Inc ($1,288,950). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $0
What Council for Adult and Experiential Learning does
Mission
Cael pioneers learning strategies for individuals and organizations. We advance lifelong learning in partnership with educational institutions, employers, labor organizations, government, and communities. Cael works to remove policy and organizational barriers to learning.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Programs
Client relations: assists employers and joint labor - management entities to create learningand career advising projects for both the active and downsized workforce.
$235,260 spent$516,792 earned by the program7% of program spendingHigher education: assists educational institutions to provide adults with meaningful, relevant, and quality learning experiences.
$2,529,551 spent$838,182 earned by the program70% of program spendingWorkforce & economic development: provides research, facilitation and planning assistance to public sector and healthcare organizations developing education and training initiatives.
$843,516 spent$10,000 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,608,327.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $13M to $6.0M (−53%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Thomas Dawson
Chair
As listed on its FY2021 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $1.2M → $407k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Strada Education Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money COUNCIL FOR ADULT AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING raised.
From the IRS filings of COUNCIL FOR ADULT AND EXPERIENTIAL 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
COUNCIL FOR ADULT AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
43% 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 COUNCIL FOR ADULT AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 43% · 2019 49% · 2020 54% · 2021 36% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
22% of COUNCIL FOR ADULT AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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 FY2022, 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
COUNCIL FOR ADULT AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $345k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like COUNCIL FOR ADULT AND EXPERIENTIAL 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
Part of a family of 10 related entities
- Strada Education Network Inc · exempt
- Education at Work Inc · exempt
- Roadtrip Nation Ltd · exempt
- Inside Track Inc · exempt
- Strada Idaho Holdings Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COUNCIL FOR ADULT AND EXPERIENTIAL 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 COUNCIL FOR ADULT AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING?
- COUNCIL FOR ADULT AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING (Indiana) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,811,955 to it, the largest being Ascendium Education Solutions Inc ($1,288,950). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COUNCIL FOR ADULT AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $5,811,955 in grants to COUNCIL FOR ADULT AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COUNCIL FOR ADULT AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING?
- Ascendium Education Solutions Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,288,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COUNCIL FOR ADULT AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 14 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