California · Nonprofit
LINKED LEARNING ALLIANCE
LINKED LEARNING ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,412,529 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($10,470,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Linked Learning Alliance does
Mission
The Linked Learning Alliance is the engine that drives the linked learning movement, a field of educators, employers, students, and community leaders that supports education systems as they engage youth, strengthen workforce readiness, (continued on sch. O)and advance economic equity for all young people through linked learning. Linked learning integrates rigorous academics with real-world learning and strong support services to prepare students for success in college, career, and life. The alliance accelerates high quality linked learning practices through training, capacity building, and certification; collects and disseminates data to inform learning and build evidence for the field, communicates effectively to build public will for expansion of linked learning, and advocates for policy and resource decisions to promote high quality linked learning opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Recognizing the architecture required for sustained community-driven change, the alliance works at the intersection of practice, policy, communications, and research to accelerate high-quality linked learning pathways and scale excellence and equity in schools and communities.the alliance leads and strengthens a linked learning field that includes thousands of educators and hundreds of thousands of students from throughout california and beyond. The alliance coordinates the field's collective efforts to put each young person at the center of high-quality learning, surrounded by adults and structures dedicated to their growth by advocating for supportive policies, ensuring a high-quality standard for practice on the ground, and sharing successes and research that deepens field knowledge and advances learning.
$1,847,949 spent$889,291 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,847,949.
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 2018 to 2019, from $5.9M to $10M (+75%).
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 16% · 2022 7% · 2023 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of LINKED LEARNING ALLIANCE’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. 8 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.
Board chair
John T Fischer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $3.1M.
1 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 LINKED LEARNING ALLIANCE’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
LINKED LEARNING ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 80%; 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 78% · 2018 94% · 2019 93% · 2020 77% · 2021 71% · 2022 61% · 2023 31% — 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
44% of LINKED LEARNING ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
87% of LINKED LEARNING ALLIANCE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $300k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LINKED LEARNING ALLIANCE is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LINKED LEARNING ALLIANCE
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
29%
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 LINKED LEARNING ALLIANCE: 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 LINKED LEARNING ALLIANCE?
- LINKED LEARNING ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,412,529 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($10,470,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LINKED LEARNING ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $17,412,529 in grants to LINKED LEARNING ALLIANCE, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LINKED LEARNING ALLIANCE?
- The James Irvine Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,470,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LINKED LEARNING ALLIANCE 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 19 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