Colorado · Nonprofit
LUMINARY LEARNING NETWORK
LUMINARY LEARNING NETWORK (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,236,500 to it, the largest being ROOTED ($1,754,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Luminary Learning Network does
Mission
The lln brings together a group of diverse-by-design schools that are committed to providing unique and dynamic learning experiences for all students, including those historically underserved, while empowering teachers, leaders and community members as stewards of excellent schools that support the success of dps as a collective.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The lln significantly increases the ability of each of its member schools to allocate resources and to tailor strategies and approaches to meet the unique needs of their communities. The lln supports eight schools serving 3,500 students. In partnership with denver public schools, the lln ensures that schools have the operational and financial autonomy and flexibility they need in order to execute their innovation plans with fidelity and customize their educational model in order to best serve students. In addition, the lln provides executive coaching, school reviews, and professional development opportunities for all member schools.
$700,331 spent$531,985 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $700,331.
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 $821k to $1.4M (+68%).
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: 2017 36% · 2020 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of LUMINARY LEARNING NETWORK’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. 2 of the last 7 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
Tyler Mounsey
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $425k → $225k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 LUMINARY LEARNING NETWORK’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
LUMINARY LEARNING NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 LUMINARY LEARNING NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 82% · 2020 78% · 2021 80% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of LUMINARY LEARNING NETWORK's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88k 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
LUMINARY LEARNING NETWORK runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 LUMINARY LEARNING NETWORK
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
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
99%
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 LUMINARY LEARNING NETWORK: 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 LUMINARY LEARNING NETWORK?
- LUMINARY LEARNING NETWORK (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,236,500 to it, the largest being ROOTED ($1,754,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUMINARY LEARNING NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $2,236,500 in grants to LUMINARY LEARNING NETWORK, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUMINARY LEARNING NETWORK?
- ROOTED is the largest funder on record, with $1,754,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUMINARY LEARNING NETWORK 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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