Learning2

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
472997315
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Lynnwood, WA, USA
Phone
4257716055
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Nonmonetary Support N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$48,223
Expenses
$80,167
Assets
$31,485
Liabilities
$4,306

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ANNETTE ARBENZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • ANNETTE ARBENZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • STEPHAN REIACH (DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY)
  • SIMON MAY (VICE CHAIR/DIRECTOR OF OPS)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Learning2's mission is to innovate social learning globally.

What it reported doing in 2025

The learning2 international conference continues to be guided by our founding principles, which are to create a conference experience that is new, fresh, and pushing the ideas of what a conference should be. In doing so, create a conference experience that puts the participant first, understand that learning is a social act and make social a key part of the conference. Also create a conference that continues to change with the needs of participants, that is ever changing, takes risks, and uses technologies appropriately in the learning process.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 79% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 94
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 15
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 85.2%; rating input score 85

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -66.2%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 21.2%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 34.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -19.9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -12.6% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $68K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.