Totals
- Total revenue
- $1,601,616
- Total expenses
- $1,276,616
- Contributions and grants received
- $1,592,328
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $8,682
- Investment income
- $0
- Other revenue
- $606
- Total assets, end of year
- $2,225,913
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $482,611
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $1,743,302
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $1,169,072
- Management and general expenses
- $99,193
- Fundraising expenses
- $8,351
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $1,169,072
Program services were 91.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$1,592,328
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2a · Program service revenue: Online Courses
total $134 · related or exempt $134
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2b · Program service revenue: Program Service Contracts
total $8,548 · related or exempt $8,548
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3 · Investment income
total $0
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
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5 · Royalties
total $0
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6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
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7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
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9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
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10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
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11a · Other revenue: Rebates And Redemptions
total $606 · excluded $606
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11e · Other revenue, total
$606
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $0
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0
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4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
-
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $122,524 · program services $110,271 · management and general $6,126 · fundraising $6,127
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $288,566 · program services $276,049 · management and general $11,072 · fundraising $1,445
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $12,176 · program services $11,637 · management and general $501 · fundraising $38
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $464 · program services $464
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $33,070 · program services $31,144 · management and general $1,308 · fundraising $618
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11a · Fees: management
total $0
-
11b · Fees: legal
total $3,131 · program services $2,921 · management and general $210
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $25,200 · management and general $25,200
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11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
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11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
-
11g · Fees: other
total $763,401 · program services $713,022 · management and general $50,379
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $0
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13 · Office expenses
total $168 · program services $116 · management and general $52
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14 · Information technology
total $11,538 · program services $8,950 · management and general $2,575 · fundraising $13
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15 · Royalties
total $0
-
16 · Occupancy
total $0
-
17 · Travel
total $3,467 · program services $3,099 · management and general $368
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18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
-
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $3,329 · program services $3,329
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20 · Interest
total $0
-
21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
-
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $0
-
23 · Insurance
total $5,165 · program services $4,734 · management and general $399 · fundraising $32
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24a · Other expenses: Dues and other charges
total $4,349 · program services $3,336 · management and general $935 · fundraising $78
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24b · Other expenses: Miscellaneous Expense
total $68 · management and general $68
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24e · All other expenses
total $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $1,954,451 · end of year $2,165,177
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
end of year $0
-
3 · Pledges and grants receivable
end of year $0
-
4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $179,976 · end of year $60,081
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5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
-
6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
-
7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
-
8 · Inventories for sale or use
end of year $0
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $1,721 · end of year $655
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
end of year $0
-
11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
end of year $0
-
12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
-
13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
-
14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
-
15 · Other assets
end of year $0
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $62,829 · end of year $87,101
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19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $655,017 · end of year $395,510
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $1,116,381 · end of year $441,075
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $301,921 · end of year $1,302,227
Mission and programs · 2022
Mission
The learning agency lab seeks to improve the effectiveness of k-16 education, especially for historically marginalized populations, by creating free or at-cost resources that are aligned to the science of learning.
Activities or mission (Part I)
The Learning Agency Lab is focused on developing science of learning-based tools and programs for the social good. We help educators, researchers and others to understand the science of learning and how students can learn how to learn better.
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The 2022 fiscal year focused primarily on the development of new research and data competitions to drive open-source educational interventions. The Lab completed three high-profile data science competitions which developed automated feedback tools to improve writing in students in middle and high school grades, resulting in global participation from over 3,000 teams and resulting algorithms demonstrating human-level accuracy in evaluating student writing. Additionally, the team identified and laid the groundwork for a series of competitions focused around the release of assessment focused datasets called the Open Data Assessment Fund. The automated feedback tools competitions, also known as The Feedback Prize, consisted of three contests each building on the goals of the previous. The first competition, launched in December 2021, asked teams to develop algorithms that can identify elements in student writing for grades 6 to 12. More specifically, teams developed models that could segment an essay into elements of an argument (e.g., claim, evidence) and label each one. The second, launched in May 2022, built on its predecessor by tasking participants with evaluating argumentative elements in essays written by students in grades 6-12 as effective, adequate, or ineffective. Finally, the third, launched in September 2022, tasked participants with developing models that score essays based on language proficiency. Together, the algorithms developed in this competition series help students receive more individualized feedback on their writing, and with automated guidance, students can complete more assignments and ultimately become more confident, proficient writers. Over 3,000 teams participated across the Feedback Prize competitions, with winning algorithms demonstrating human-comparable accuracy and several novel algorithms and techniques emerging. Participants dedicated numerous hours to sharing their algorithmic approaches and engaging in reviews of others solutions on the platforms discussion forums. In the Feedback Prize data science competitions, it is conservatively estimated that competition participants invested time worth more than $240 million across all three competitions, to win a combined prize purse of $270,000. The resulting Feedback Prize datasets were also featured in prestigious academic journals such as Assessing Writing. Building on the success of the Feedback Prize, the Lab sought ways to continue research and innovation on school data. The resulting program was the Open Data Assessment Fund (ODAF), a series of competitions designed to respond to the current lack of high-quality, open source assessment datasets in education. The goal of ODAF is to provide innovators and researchers access to these datasets in order to develop new solutions (e.g., artificial intelligence and machine learning) that can reduce the cost and time to develop and administer assessments. The first competition in this series launch in FY21 and was titled The Quest. The Quest dataset explored the role of automatic question generation in supporting reading assessment for students in kindergarten through eighth grade. By leveraging this dataset, teams were tasked with creating models that will support the use of question items for improving reading comprehension, especially for texts that lack associated resources. Final models will pave the way for algorithms that can support automatic question generation for readers of all levels. While promoting further algorithmic research and development, the Lab has also advocated for the growth of the learning engineering community as a whole with both The Learning Engineering Ambassador Program and The Learning Engineering Internship Program. The Learning Engineering Ambassador Programs second cohort ran from August to December 2022 with nine ambassadors. Due to interest from applicants outside of the student population, both undergraduate and graduate, the program was expanded to allow early career professionals and individuals new to LE to participate as ambassadors. By expanding the parameters on participation, the Lab saw a huge influx of rich ideas for events and collaboration. Each ambassador is tasked with running three events during the program, which works out to one event per month, but many have gone above and beyond with multiple monthly events. These events range in size and scope from pizza parties with undergraduate students focused on LE-related career opportunities, to teacher training sessions that demonstrate how to collect and use data in the classroom to improve learning outcomes. The Learning Engineering Internship Programs second cohort also launched in fall of 2022 with five interns. The interns were students undergraduate, graduate, and PhD candidates or recent graduates, and they were matched with five ed tech-focused educational organizations. Interns have been working on a broad range of activities, including research, data preparation and visualization, and coding.
Expenses $1,169,072 · Revenue $8,682
As filed on the 2022 return.
Listed in Part VII
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Ulrich Boser
CEO
- Total calculated
- $122,523
- From this org
- $105,310
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $17,213
- Hours/week
- 20
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Perpetual Baffour
Data Scientist
- Total calculated
- $108,332
- From this org
- $100,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $8,332
- Hours/week
- 40
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Kenneth Stern
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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David Domenici
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Gabriela Lopez
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2022
- Filed
- 13 November 2023
- IRS schema version
- 2022v5.0
- Source object
- 202333179349311718
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