Virginia · Nonprofit
MAPWORKS LEARNING
MAPWORKS LEARNING (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $363,680 to it, the largest being THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ($353,383). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $364k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Mapworks Learning does
Mission
MapWorks Learning employs digital technology to advance cross-cultural collaboration, project-based learning, and issues-oriented storytelling among youth. MapWorks Learning helps young people around the world acquire vital skills for the 21st century, including critical competencies of global citizenship. Using secure built-to-purpose technology, MapWorks Learning links classrooms around the world for sustained collaboration on community-level solutions to the challenges that affect us all no matter where we live - things like conflict, water scarcity, and environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
MapWorks Learning stopped its work on the "Peace Tracks" virtual exchange. It also paused development of the "Narrative Atlas" exchange platform.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The Ukraine Youth Action Network brings together Ukrainian refugee students, ages 13-17, and their American peers for online interaction over the course of a semester, culminating in the design of student-led projects to benefit Ukraine. More than 750 youth participated in 2024.
$103,157 spentof which $12,261 as grants100% of program spendingPeace Tracks, a music-based virtual exchange, links U.S. classrooms to classrooms in the Middle East / North Africa. Students compose, perform, and record original songs, and present music videos in a live-stream concert. Approximately 150 high school students joined in 2024.
$0 spent0% of program spendingNarrative Atlas, a safe, secure private collaboration platform was designed and is maintained by MapWorks Learning. The platform is used by MapWorks Learning and also others to support global virtual programs. To date, it has been used in 54 countries.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $103,157.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $113k to $11k (−90%).
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.
100% of MAPWORKS LEARNING’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Christopher Dubia
Director / Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $78 → $358k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 MAPWORKS LEARNING’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
MAPWORKS LEARNING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 MAPWORKS LEARNING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
MAPWORKS LEARNING draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $297 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
MAPWORKS LEARNING's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MAPWORKS LEARNING
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAPWORKS LEARNING: 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 MAPWORKS LEARNING?
- MAPWORKS LEARNING (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $363,680 to it, the largest being THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ($353,383). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAPWORKS LEARNING have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $363,680 in grants to MAPWORKS LEARNING, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAPWORKS LEARNING?
- THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $353,383 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAPWORKS LEARNING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 3 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