Rhode Island · Nonprofit
THROUGHLINE LEARNING
THROUGHLINE LEARNING (Rhode Island) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,410,174 to it, the largest being CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK ($3,590,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $960k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $9.4M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Throughline Learning does
Mission
Throughline Learning partners with communities to imagine and create more equitable, relevant, and effective schools. Using research, we convene, coach, and build capacity to improve outcomes and experiences for all students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Engagement - Throughline Learning helps districts leverage evidence-based strategies and innovative technology (like ai) to close the implementation gap between district vision and classroom reality.
$1,115,970 spent$157,766 earned by the program79% of program spendingServices - Throughline Learning's services are designed to build district capacity, driving improvements in experiences and outcomes for teachers and students. Throughline Learning offers a combination of ai strategy and professional learning services detailed below to fit the desired reach, budget, and timeline. Throughline Learning offers multi-year contracts that help districts scale ai - providing the consistent support needed to move from initial policy to deep classroom transformation. O ai task force facilitation o ai literacy professional development series o train the trainer ai program o ai tool development workshop series o cross-district learning communities
$294,992 spent$41,938 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,410,962.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.4M to $2.9M (+99%).
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: 2022 21% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of THROUGHLINE LEARNING’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Shawn Rubin
Executive director
Board chair
Helayne Jones
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $1.7M → $1.2M.
6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 THROUGHLINE LEARNING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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
THROUGHLINE LEARNING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 THROUGHLINE LEARNING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 55% · 2019 46% · 2020 47% · 2021 88% · 2022 44% · 2023 65% — 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
36% of THROUGHLINE LEARNING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
THROUGHLINE LEARNING draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $314k 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
THROUGHLINE LEARNING is better cushioned than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding THROUGHLINE LEARNING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $111k on record.
- (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$111k
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 THROUGHLINE 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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% 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 THROUGHLINE 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 THROUGHLINE LEARNING?
- THROUGHLINE LEARNING (Rhode Island) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,410,174 to it, the largest being CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK ($3,590,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THROUGHLINE LEARNING have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $9,410,174 in grants to THROUGHLINE LEARNING, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THROUGHLINE LEARNING?
- CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK is the largest funder on record, with $3,590,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THROUGHLINE LEARNING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 19 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