Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Live It Learn It
Live It Learn It (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,764,216 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,370,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $408k
What Live It Learn It does
Mission
LILI partners with public schools and cultural institutions to create and deliver experiential learning opportunities for students in order to increase their self-efficacy, build on their intrinsic motivation, and support their scholarly achievements.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Live It Learn It (LILI) envisions a day when all learners feel empowered and motivated to engage with the world. We work alongside students, educators, and community partners to build meaningful connections between students in Washington, DCs Title I schools and the museums, landmarks, and historic sites that reflect the richness of their city. We recognize that due to systemic inequities, students in under-resourced communities have had unequal access to out-of-classroom learning opportunities that deepen academic engagement and foster a sense of belonging. In partnership with schools and cultural institutions, we expand access to immersive, place-based learning experiences that connect students to their communities and make classroom learning more relevant. Live It Learn It served approximately 1,809 DC students during the 202425 school year. Since 2005, LILI has served more than 28,000 2nd5th grade students and their teachers in Washington, DCs Title I schools through experiential learning that connects students with local historical, cultural, and environmental sites. Our model centers on facilitating thoughtfully designed field experiences that are directly connected to…
$920,914 spent$95,035 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $920,914.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.2M to $908k (−26%).
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 13% · 2021 32% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of Live It Learn It’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. 4 of the last 6 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
Tracy Shaw
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $118k → $380k.
7 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 Live It Learn It’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
Live It Learn It leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 Live It Learn It.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 77% · 2019 66% · 2020 41% · 2021 56% · 2022 47% · 2023 36% — 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
35% of Live It Learn It's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
53% of Live It Learn It's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.3M that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M 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
Live It Learn It's revenue grew 33% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Live It Learn It receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $434k on record.
- Department of the Interior$434k
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 Live It Learn It
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, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 Live It Learn It: 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 Live It Learn It?
- Live It Learn It (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,764,216 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,370,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Live It Learn It have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,764,216 in grants to Live It Learn It, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Live It Learn It?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,370,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Live It Learn It find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 35 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