Agile Learner Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834470603
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3038930707
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $880,000
- Expenses
- $130,000
- Assets
- $900,011
- Liabilities
- $50,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Linda Peotter (Chair)
- Zachary Neumeyer (Secretary)
- Brent Abraham (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Agile Learner Fund is a Type I supporting organization of Colorado Succeeds established to provide and steward mission-aligned capital in support of Colorado Succeeds' charitable purposes. ALF advances innovation in education and workforce development through research, development, thought leadership, piloting, incubation, scaling, and other system-change activities that promote economic mobility and career-connected learning. ALF houses the Innovation Fund, a source of mission-aligned capital established to provide Colorado Succeeds with financial flexibility to research, develop, pilot, incubate, and scale promising education and workforce-development strategies and to support other activities designed to generate learning and durable system change.
What it reported doing in 2025
During 2025, Agile Learner Fund designed and implemented outcomes-based scholarship strategies focused on connecting learners to high-quality education and training pathways leading to employment and economic mobility. ALF identified and evaluated education and training providers based on labor-market alignment and measurable standards for learner retention, completion, employment, and wages; developed grantee-selection, monitoring, and reporting systems; and built strategies to attract additional resources alongside scholarship investments. This work established the infrastructure to direct philanthropic capital toward education-to-employment pathways with measurable learner outcomes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Affiliate-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions from related organizations.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 86
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 14.8%; rating input score 15
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 85.2%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.92; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -44.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -18.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 14.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $130K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.