2026-04-05T23:13:09-07:00 2025-12-31 990 2025-01-01 843424916 LOOMA EDUCATION CORPORATION LOOM 6503805008 999 Olive Street Menlo Park CA 94025 Owen Sowerwine CFO 6503805008 2026-03-31 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Skip Stritter 999 Olive Street Menlo Park CA 94025 382153 0 X https://www.looma.education X 2019 CA LEC creates technologies to improve lives in developing countries. It is now developing and installing Looma, a solar-powered, interactive educational a/v system to supplement the curriculum in Nepal's public schools which often lack power, Internet, trained teachers, and sufficient funds to adequately support the public program. Looma contains the entire Nepalese curriculum, integrated with a massive library of selected open-source materials, and enhanced with gamified reviews. The goal is that this system will be adopted by the Nepalese government and its donors, become a standard classroom tool for many of Nepal's 26,000 public schools, and perhaps be adopted by other countries as well. 6 4 0 30 0 0 193327 382153 0 0 0 0 0 0 193327 382153 67000 352009 0 23989 0 0 0 0 0 12182 23827 79182 399825 114145 -17672 128718 111046 0 0 128718 111046 We create technologies to improve lives in developing countries. Since 2012 we have focused on a specific goal--to create a system that can provide good educational material effectively for students and teachers in schools that are really under-resourced--those that lack reliable power, Internet, adequately trained teachers, sufficient funds and are often in remote locations that are difficult to support. We are developing this solution for Nepal, but Nepal is not alone in facing these barriers. The Looma system is open-source, so may be adopted and 'localized' to the needs of any country. 0 0 190000 190000 During 2025 the number of schools equipped mostly by LEC increased to 85, with around 20 more arranged by other non-profits and the US Peace Corps. Among these, three schools were fully equipped with all teachers trained to use Looma. These "Lead Schools" have the outreach responsibility for the other public schools in their community, with commitment and assistance by their local government agencies and community organizations. This mode of scaling Looma engages directly the local entities in a manner that will establish the practices needed by the government to broadly scale the system as/when it is adopted for general use. Elsewhere, nearly all the schools with one Looma have been retrofitted to have an independent solar system and a white board to ensure no power interruptions and improve the user interface. 150000 150000 During 2025 the design of Looma III was completed and 100 Looma systems assembled in California by technical partners who will subsequently produce the systems closer to- and more economically for Nepal. These are being transferred to Nepal as quickly as possible, and many are already installed and working. The labor to produce one Looma system has been reduced from roughly four days to four hours. 59659 59659 The Looma Teacher Corps, a team of four regular field staff augmented by student interns has provided exceptional assistance in the form of ongoing teacher training, monitoring usage and progress, and providing feedback that is used to modify the 'user interface', augment content, and encourage interest and motivation among the teachers and students. Based on what has been learned in this startup phase, a permanent media-based support system will be introduced to provide full-time visibility, updates, support and systematic encouragement throughout the Looma school network. 0 0 0 399659 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 6 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CA X Owen David Sowerwine 6503805008 999 Olive Street Menlo Park CA 94025 X Edward P Stritter Board Chair and Technical Director 45 0 X X X 0 0 0 Owen David Sowerwine CFO and Board Member 55 3 X X X 0 0 0 John L McDonnell Board Member 0.5 0 X X 0 0 0 Neela Gentile Board Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 Robert Fisher Board Member 0.5 0 X 0 0 0 Doug Molitor Board Member 0.5 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 382153 0 382153 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 382153 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 352009 352009 23989 23989 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2425 2425 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 270 270 0 0 0 0 166 0 166 0 14858 14858 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6108 6108 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 399825 399659 166 0 128718 111046 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 128718 111046 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 128718 111046 0 0 128718 111046 128718 111046 -17672 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 38068 90464 185349 193327 382153 889361 10097 1583 0 0 0 11680 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 48165 92047 185349 193327 382153 901041 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 901041 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 48165 92047 185349 193327 382153 901041 1 1 0 0 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED South Asia Looma Education Corporation (LEC) is developing an offline a/v-based education platform to provide access to good materials for low-resourced schools lacking reliable power, internet, trained teachers, and adequate funding. LEC contracts with Village Solution Pvt Ltd (VSPL), an independent Nepalese company with trusted management. LEC sets the goals, provides technical support and pays VSPL for project services. LEC maintains close supervision with regular zoom reviews and detailed records. Payment is made with periodic transfers to VSPL's account according to monthly budgets. 'non-cash' assistance is the cost of services provided from California. See: https://www.looma.education 352009 Periodic wire transfers from LEC to VSPL 47816 During 2025 the pay-for-services cash grants covered the costs of the core VSPL team in Nepal for their work in hardware, logistics, filed support, software, content aggregation, and pedagogic research, plus the installation (mostly gratis) of Looma systems and associated solar power supplies, and training for school and community members. Meanwhile, the other non-grant costs incurred in California were for equipment design, fabrication, and shipping, as well as software design and support plus various 'telecom' costs for global internet service. All are cash costs. All US Looma participants are volunteers. 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b No review was or will be conducted. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 During the past year there have been no requests from the public for the organization's documents.