California · Nonprofit
THE LEARNING ACCELERATOR
THE LEARNING ACCELERATOR (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,680,838 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($5,645,263). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What The Learning Accelerator does
Mission
The Learning Accelerator is building an education field where practitioners, leaders, and policy makers learn faster and change systems together to ensure every child receives the effective, equitable, and engaging education they need to reach their full and unique potential. Our mission is to accelerate individual, organizational, and sector learning to transform k-12 education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Learning Accelerator (tla) is building an education field where everyone learns faster and change systems together to ensure every child reaches their unique potential. Tla works across the education sector to help practitioners, leaders, and policy makers learn faster from success and innovation and apply that knowledge to improve how tla is educating students. Tla researches and investigates; tla documents and publishes; and tla connects, collaborates, and builds coalitions. Tla helps school systems improve and offers expertise in areas including emerging technologies, school models, and systems of support.during 2024, tla launched over 10 new organizations and products, produced more than 150 unique insights and tools, established over 300 diverse organizational partnerships, engaged with more than 650 district, system, and sector leaders, developed over 2,000 actionable strategies and resources, and facilitated more than 185,000 yearly interactions with educators.
$3,918,688 spentof which $1,327,152 as grants$576,826 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,918,688.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.8M to $2.6M (−47%).
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: 2018 0% · 2021 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of THE LEARNING ACCELERATOR’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 8 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
Carolyn Elizabeth Rabbitt
CEO
Board chair
Al Motley
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $2.5M → $3.0M.
6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 THE LEARNING ACCELERATOR’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
THE LEARNING ACCELERATOR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
32% 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 THE LEARNING ACCELERATOR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 39% · 2019 35% · 2020 23% · 2021 41% · 2022 52% · 2023 83% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of THE LEARNING ACCELERATOR's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
THE LEARNING ACCELERATOR draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
THE LEARNING ACCELERATOR is better cushioned than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding THE LEARNING ACCELERATOR receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $309k on record.
- (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$309k
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 THE LEARNING ACCELERATOR
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
25%
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 THE LEARNING ACCELERATOR: 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 THE LEARNING ACCELERATOR?
- THE LEARNING ACCELERATOR (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,680,838 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($5,645,263). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LEARNING ACCELERATOR have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $17,680,838 in grants to THE LEARNING ACCELERATOR, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LEARNING ACCELERATOR?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $5,645,263 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LEARNING ACCELERATOR 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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