California · Nonprofit
KHAN ACADEMY INC
KHAN ACADEMY INC (California) receives grants from 382 organizations whose IRS filings report $251,141,913 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($32,102,730). 200 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $117M
- Funders on record
- 382
- Grants received
- $251M
- Net assets
- $152M
What Khan Academy Inc does
Mission
A free world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Platform development: our platform development team focuses on building the web and mobile software that allows us to offer students a world-class, personalized learning experience across multiple subject areas. By strengthening the platform, we are able to provide students with a learning experience that rivals that of a personalized, always-available tutor. From july 2024 to june 2025, an average of 8.5 million learners were active on our platform each month in more than 190 countries. Approximately 53% of our learners were located outside of the united states. Our content is translated into more than 50 languages. We continue to make improvements to our mastery learning features and expanded content library with the addition of more subjects, unit tests and quizzes.
$51,197,550 spent$22,146,623 earned by the program68% of program spendingContent creation and curation: the khan academy platform includes an extensive and growing library of educational resources. On june 30, 2025, it contained approximately 800 active courses, 20,000 videos, 12,500 sets of practice problems, and 10,250 articles. From july 2024 to june 2025, we continued to deepen and broaden our course offerings in the core subjects of math, science, english/language arts and social studies, and also expanded courses in popular topics such as financial literacy and computer science. Additionally, we continued to forge partnerships to help us create more world-class content. Khan academy's goal is to be the world's best learning resource, providing free, rigorous, and engaging standards-aligned instructional and practice content to teachers and learners in the k-12 classroom especially, but also to any independent learner, anywhere in the world.
$12,093,799 spent16% of program spendingAwareness and adoption: we will continue developing partnerships with institutions across the world to increase awareness about khan academy and increase our impact. Example partnerships include school districts in the united states and other markets, testmakers and credentialing bodies, corporations, and foundations. By june 30, 2025, we had more than 185 million registered students, teachers and parents.
$12,301,002 spentof which $593,100 as grants16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $75,592,351.
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 $127M to $159M (+25%).
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 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of KHAN ACADEMY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Salman Khan
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Ann Doerr
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 61 funders to 139 funders, grant income rose $9.1M → $63M.
41 of 382 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $100k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The Halperin Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money KHAN ACADEMY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of KHAN ACADEMY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 382 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
KHAN ACADEMY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
30% 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 KHAN ACADEMY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 35% · 2019 32% · 2020 29% · 2021 19% · 2022 41% · 2023 22% — 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
37% of KHAN ACADEMY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
KHAN ACADEMY INC draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 39 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
KHAN ACADEMY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding KHAN ACADEMY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $86k on record.
- INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES$65k
- CLOUD SERVICES$18k
- ASSOC DUES AND CONF FEES$3k
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 KHAN ACADEMY 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Duck Duck Moose LLC · disregarded
- Khan Academy India · exempt
- Khan Academy Brasil · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KHAN ACADEMY 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 KHAN ACADEMY INC?
- KHAN ACADEMY INC (California) receives grants from 382 organizations whose IRS filings report $251,141,913 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($32,102,730). 200 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KHAN ACADEMY INC have?
- IRS filings report 382 organizations giving $251,141,913 in grants to KHAN ACADEMY INC, 200 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KHAN ACADEMY INC?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $32,102,730 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KHAN ACADEMY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 382 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