KNOW LEARNING

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2025 · Form 990 · revenue $101K · expenses $124K · assets $2K

EIN

85-1319085

Address

1255 KENWOOD RD, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93109-1355

Website

www.knowlearning.org

NTEE code

B90 Educational Services and Schools - Other (Education) published (IRS Business Master File)

Exempt type

501(c)(3): charitable, religious, educational, scientific or literary (corporation)

Ruling date

April 2021 (when the IRS recognized its exemption)

IRS status

Exempt (unconditional) (IRS Business Master File) IRS data ↗

Tax-deductible donations

Yes: listed in IRS Publication 78 (public charity) Pub 78 ↗

Foundation status

Public charity supported by the public (170(b)(1)(a)(vi))

Principal officer

Matthew McClain (its 2020 Form 990-N)

Form 990-N e-postcards

1 filed, 2020 (organizations with gross receipts normally $50,000 or less file this instead of a full Form 990) IRS data ↗

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Mission

In 2025 KnowLearning partnered with multiple educational research teams with technical guidance and build-tool support integration. With these organizational partners, launched pilots and project with students and teachers with goals achieved including (a) refine and improve early versions of our research infrastructure, (b) improving partners' research programs, curriculum, and data analysis workflows, and (c) directly benefit the students, teacher, schools, and communities participating in the pilot studies. Supporting this work, we continued to refine our cloud-based hosting solution, including continuing to support a workgroup within the United Nations' Office of Economic Development focused on innovative education and research.

Each tax year counts once: when a return was amended, only the latest return for that period is used below (superseded returns stay listed, greyed, under Finances).

People paid by the organization

2 people paid across every filing: current people first, then by total pay from this organization. Organizations counts every nonprofit each person appears on.

Officers and directors, no compensation reported

2 people listed on the returns with $0 (or no amount) in every compensation column: current people first. Hours are as filed on the latest return each person appears on.

People by year

Highest-paid independent contractors

No independent contractors reported.

Who gave

Contributor names are not public for this form type.

Public charities filing Form 990 or 990-EZ report large donors on Schedule B, but the IRS withholds their names and addresses from public copies. Private foundations (990-PF) are different: their contributors are public.

Finances

Newest first. Each filing: its name on one row, its figures on the row beneath. Greyed filings are superseded by a later return for the same period and are left out everywhere else on this page.

Funders of this organization

Not reported: no grants to this organization appear in the filings we have (tax years 2010 to 2025).

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Where the money went

Every expense line on each return, biggest first: Form 990 Part IX (with its program, management and fundraising columns), 990-EZ Part I, or 990-PF Part I. Event marks lines the organization itself describes as events. “Events” in each summary adds those lines, conferences and meetings, and the direct costs of fundraising events. Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing.