California · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC
FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,610,866 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($3,431,568). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Foundation for Learning Equality Inc does
Mission
Learning equality is committed to enabling every person in the world to achieve a quality basic education, through supporting the creation and distribution of open educational resources, and facilitating their use around the world. Through this work, we aim to build a new, open, and fundamentally student-centered educational model, and ultimately promote human flourishing.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2023, learning equality continued to develop kolibri, our adaptable end-to-end suite of open-source tools, educational resources, and support materials designed for offline-first teaching and learning, now available in 31 languages, and used in more than 220 countries and territories, with over 38,000 new known installations in 2023. We developed ai-driven tools to automate curriculum alignment, ensuring that open educational resources are contextualized for local needs. Our new "flying colors" program piloted in uganda successfully enhanced literacy, numeracy, and socio-emotional skills among out-of-school refugee and host learners, with dramatic gains made in only 12 weeks. We also expanded our partnerships, including a new collaboration with digital promise and blue butterfly in haiti to support blended learning, and with the ilo, unhcr and unicef in uganda as part of the prospects for connected learning, digital skills, and microwork program aimed at improving livelihoods and employment opportunities. We directly trained over 113 educators through partner projects in guyana, kenya, uganda and south sudan, and kicked off an east africa community of practice using whatsapp.…
$3,343,622 spentof which $80,565 as grants$573,693 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,343,622.
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 2017 to 2018, from $2.4M to $6.0M (+152%).
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 7% · 2021 12% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $100k → $2.0M.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC’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
FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
44% 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 FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 72% · 2019 52% · 2020 54% · 2021 34% · 2022 37% · 2023 27% — 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
50% of FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
60% of FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC: 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 FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC?
- FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,610,866 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($3,431,568). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $12,610,866 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,431,568 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC 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 20 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing