Maine · Nonprofit
NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR ONLINE LEARNING
NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR ONLINE LEARNING (Maine) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,611,802 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $7.6M
- Net assets
- $0
What North American Council for Online Learning does
Mission
The council drives the transformation of education systems and accelerates the advancement of breakthrough policies and practices to ensure high-quality learning for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Advance the work of teachers, administrators and public policy makers in the field of personalized learning and competency-based education.
$5,948,965 spentof which $2,114,725 as grants$1,473,160 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,948,965.
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.
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 $5.0M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Tom Rooney
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $1.8M → $706k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR ONLINE LEARNING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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
NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR ONLINE LEARNING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
41% 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 NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR ONLINE LEARNING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 69% · 2019 41% · 2020 33% · 2021 64% · 2022 68% · 2023 35% — 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
56% of NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR ONLINE LEARNING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR ONLINE LEARNING draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR ONLINE 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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR ONLINE 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 NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR ONLINE LEARNING?
- NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR ONLINE LEARNING (Maine) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,611,802 to it, the largest being BARR FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR ONLINE LEARNING have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $7,611,802 in grants to NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR ONLINE LEARNING, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR ONLINE LEARNING?
- BARR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR ONLINE LEARNING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 14 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