Washington · Nonprofit
GETTING SMART COLLECTIVE
GETTING SMART COLLECTIVE (Washington) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,780,876 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($5,025,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $428k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $419k
What Getting Smart Collective does
Mission
Getting Smart Collective actively builds the future of learning by designing, accelerating and amplifying equitable innovations that empower all people to thrive and lead in a complex world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Getting Smart Collective (formerly eduinnovation) is a washington state nonprofit 501(c)(3) and has been an important part of the education innovation landscape for over a decade. Through extended advocacy, grantmaking and storytelling campaigns, we have worked with countlesspartners, organizations and schools to focus on innovations that drive equity.
$1,969,842 spent$253,332 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,969,842.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.9M to $478k (−83%).
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.
32% of GETTING SMART COLLECTIVE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% 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.
Chief executive
Caroline Vander Ark
Executive director/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $277k → $2.6M.
From the IRS filings of GETTING SMART COLLECTIVE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 funders by total. 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
GETTING SMART COLLECTIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 100% · 2023 97% — 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
20% of GETTING SMART COLLECTIVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 22% 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
GETTING SMART COLLECTIVE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
GETTING SMART COLLECTIVE's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GETTING SMART COLLECTIVE
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
22%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GETTING SMART COLLECTIVE: 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 GETTING SMART COLLECTIVE?
- GETTING SMART COLLECTIVE (Washington) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,780,876 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($5,025,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GETTING SMART COLLECTIVE have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $5,780,876 in grants to GETTING SMART COLLECTIVE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GETTING SMART COLLECTIVE?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $5,025,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GETTING SMART COLLECTIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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