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LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO

LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO (Colorado) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,247,349 to it, the largest being Overdeck Family Foundation Inc ($4,171,200). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$5.2M
Funders on record
42
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
$3.5M
28/42 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Learn Fresh Education Co does

Mission

The organization envisions a world in which students find learning so engaging that they want to do it all the time. Through community, play, and rigorous exploration, the organization focuses to leverage students' passion for sports and entertainment to inspire their stem and social-emotional learning. The organization's programs are explicitly focused on achieving equitable representation across the stem pipeline for girls, students of color, and those living in low-income communities. Through their core values of aspiration, community, grit, innovation and integrity, the organization aims to empower educators and inspire students.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization provides games and educational curriculum to teachers to use with the students in their classrooms.

    $5,846,273 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,846,273.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($657k)2018 Revenue 63 ($1.1M) Expenses 66 ($1.2M) Net assets 78 ($512k)2019 Revenue 132 ($2.2M) Expenses 104 ($1.9M) Net assets 94 ($619k)2020 Revenue 129 ($2.2M) Expenses 108 ($2.0M) Net assets 127 ($833k)2021 Revenue 348 ($5.8M) Expenses 150 ($2.7M) Net assets 601 ($3.9M)2022 Revenue 218 ($3.7M) Expenses 224 ($4.1M) Net assets 540 ($3.5M)2023 Revenue 386 ($6.5M) Expenses 289 ($5.2M) Net assets 728 ($4.8M)2024 Revenue 307 ($5.2M) Expenses 356 ($6.5M) Net assets 531 ($3.5M)
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Revenue (307)Expenses (356)Net assets (531)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $4.0M (+244%).

$657k
$547k
$870k
$1.2M
$4.0M
$3.7M
$4.9M
$3.7M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 2% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,038 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$136k
’17
−$146k
’18
$344k
’19
$214k
’20
$3.1M
’21
−$402k
’22
$1.2M
’23
−$1.3M
’24
0.9
months of
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

Nick Monzi

President/ CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1010101111131719
Joined·+4+2+1+2+5+4+3
No longer listed·4202301
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $174k → $2.6M.

13 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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

LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

49% 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 LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO.

37%
largest funder
65%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 31% · 2019 41% · 2020 42% · 2021 35% · 2022 66% · 2023 47% — 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

48% of LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 15 states in all.

WA
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
CO
AZ
AR
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO has grown faster than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−25% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO

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 Colorado

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 6%Fundraising 4%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

56%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 7 states

MI
NY
PA
CA
UT
CO
DE

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Questions and answers

Who funds LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO?
LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO (Colorado) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,247,349 to it, the largest being Overdeck Family Foundation Inc ($4,171,200). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO have?
IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $11,247,349 in grants to LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO?
Overdeck Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $4,171,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 42 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