New York · Nonprofit
UNBOUNDED LEARNING INC
UNBOUNDED LEARNING INC (New York) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,846,312 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($27,471,859). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $59M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Unbounded Learning Inc does
Mission
Unbounded empowers educators to meet the needs of every single student through grade-level, engaging, affirming, and meaningful gleam "registered trademark" instruction.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Primarily funded by philanthropic partners, unbounded utilized funding in the following areas: 1) expansion of programmatic operations and strategy to scale research & evaluation, distribution, and program development, 2) creation of a middle school science pathway at standards institute. 3) expand unbounded's suite of research based services of digital and virtual offerings to meeting the changing needs of districts. 4) we worked with districts over to support them to adopt and launch math high-quality instructional materials (hqim).
$15,620,470 spent$943,393 earned by the program74% of program spendingUnbounded hosted 3 standards institute events in july 2024, winter 2025 and june 2025; reaching over 1,150 educators, leaders and partners from districts and cmos.participants in almost every course and district/organization, as well as across all roles, showed gains in knowledge after attending the institute. All staff members worked the events and were part of the content development and operations of the events.
$4,472,119 spent$4,523,675 earned by the program21% of program spendingLocal si & in person summit - unbounded's interactive local 4 days on site standards institute for a specific district and two-day summit for teachers, coaches, and leaders emphasizes instructional planning amidst a historical anti-racist movement. With an emphasis on grade-level curriculum, strategic supports, and equitable instruction, the local si & in person summit moves educators through planning processes that can produce meaningful, engaging in-person classroom experiences. Teachers & coaches leave the events better prepared to make informed decisions that address unfinished instruction while remaining in grade-level curriculum, and leaders leave the events better prepared to make decisions that ensure students have equitable access to grade-level instruction. Unbounded hosted three 4 day local standards institutes in san joaquin, milwaukee and san antonio. There were also over 50 sections of two-day summits implemented as well.
$892,511 spent$2,705,145 earned by the program4% of program spendingGleam inventory is a multi-day experience that includes professional learning, classroom visits, and an action planning session rooted in unbounded's dynamic equitable instruction observation tool, your team will gain a deeper understanding of grade-level, engaging, affirming, and meaningful (gleam) instruction and how to increase its impact on all students in your district. Curriculum adoption support districts in adopting high-quality instructional materials (hqim), to make informed choices that best fit their goals, context, and students' needs. Curriculumm implementation provide technical assistance (strategic consulting, professional learning, and assessment tools) to schools and school districts for effectively using their high-quality instructional materials (hqim).
$133,055 spent$857,816 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,118,155.
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 2021 to 2022, from $10M to $25M (+141%).
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: 2021 6% · 2022 8% · 2023 8% · 2024 7% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of UNBOUNDED LEARNING INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Lacey Robinson
President and CEO
Board chair
Sonjihia Lowery
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $5.3M → $6.5M.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 UNBOUNDED LEARNING INC’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
UNBOUNDED LEARNING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
31% 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 UNBOUNDED LEARNING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 69% · 2019 56% · 2020 51% · 2021 33% · 2022 75% · 2023 62% — 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
63% of UNBOUNDED LEARNING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
UNBOUNDED LEARNING INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
UNBOUNDED LEARNING INC has grown faster than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding UNBOUNDED LEARNING INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17.2M on record — $16.6M federal, $590k state.
- Department of Education$16.6M
- (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$585k
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$5k
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 UNBOUNDED LEARNING INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 14 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Consortium on Reaching Excellence in Education · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNBOUNDED LEARNING INC?
- UNBOUNDED LEARNING INC (New York) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,846,312 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($27,471,859). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNBOUNDED LEARNING INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $58,846,312 in grants to UNBOUNDED LEARNING INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNBOUNDED LEARNING INC?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $27,471,859 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNBOUNDED LEARNING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 20 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