Learning Policy Institute
Palo Alto, CA · EIN 47-2772048. Reported 51 grants totalling $4,234,745 to 26 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Learning Policy Institute, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B05) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 26 distinct organizations, with 20% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 55% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $32,000 and $113,824; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $280,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bank Street College of Education | New York, NY | $861,875 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| National Conference of State Legislatures | Denver, CO | $483,824 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Council of Chief State School Officers | Washington, DC | $433,870 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $295,980 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Education Counsel LLC | Washington, DC | $295,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $252,543 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Collaborative for Academic Socialand Emotional Learning - Casel | Chicago, IL | $212,730 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Commonwealth of Mass Dept of Education | Maiden, MA | $203,241 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Envision Education Inc | Oakland, CA | $163,570 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of South Carolina Educational Foundation | Columbia, SC | $150,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rutgers the State University | Piscataway, NJ | $149,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| State of Hawaii Department of Education | Honolulu, HI | $147,692 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| National Association of State Boards of Education | Alexandria, VA | $110,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Educational Commission of the States | Northglenn, CO | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education | Washington, DC | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| National Assn of State Directors Teacher Education & Certification | Lexington, KY | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Inc | Arlington, VA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| State of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $57,020 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment Inc | Dover, NH | $32,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences | Arlington, VA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Californians for Justice Education Fund Inc | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Great Schools Partnership Inc | Portland, ME | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Complete College America Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Forum for Youth Investment | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Turnaround for Children Inc | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tides Center | San Francisco, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
16 of 26 (62%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Bank Street College of Education
To support overall objectives of the EPIC initiative - Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford JR University
To support deeper learning related objectives - Council of Chief State School Officers
Aligning the work on Social, Emotional and Academic Development with the goals of the Policy Table - Education Counsel LLC
To support the project on Social Emotional Academic Development - Rutgers the University of New Jersey
To engage in collaboration with the Early Childhood Learning Team at LPI. - Commonwealth of Mass Dept of Education
To support LPI with Innovative Classroom Science Assessment Tasks
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 17 of 26 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 23 | $1,718,802 | $32,000 |
| 2022 | 14 | $1,291,165 | $57,369 |
| 2023 | 7 | $599,271 | $64,428 |
| 2024 | 7 | $625,507 | $55,865 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
21% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
Find more funders like Learning Policy Institute
We read newly filed IRS returns and email you the grantmakers whose giving matches your state and cause, as they are published. Free.
No spam, unsubscribe in one click. We never sell or share your address.
Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Related guides
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Learning Policy Institute's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1530 Page Mill Road 250, Palo Alto, CA, 94304.
EIN 47-2772048 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
Is something here wrong about your organization? Email hello@funderscope.com and we will correct it.