Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LEARN & PLAY INC TA PLAY & LEARN
LEARN & PLAY INC TA PLAY & LEARN (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $667,380 to it, the largest being JENKINTOWN DAY NURSERY FOUNDATION ($547,937). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $667k
- Net assets
- $28M
What Learn & Play Inc Ta Play & Learn does
Mission
The organization provides childcare services and activities to students ranging in age from infant to age 6. Providing activities in an educational and social environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides child care services and activities in an educational and social environment for 605 equivalent full time students. In conjunction with their mission, certain children are not denied services in excess of their family means. The estimated cost of providing subsidized childcare is approximately $198,847 for the year ended june 30, 2025.
$9,691,732 spentof which $209,313 as grants$11,132,583 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,691,732.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $21M to $28M (+36%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2019 4% · 2020 6% · 2021 20% · 2022 24% · 2023 14% · 2024 9% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of LEARN & PLAY INC TA PLAY & LEARN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kimberly Follett
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Doug Schoenberg
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $103k → $48k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of LEARN & PLAY INC TA PLAY & LEARN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
LEARN & PLAY INC TA PLAY & LEARN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 100% · 2022 56% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of LEARN & PLAY INC TA PLAY & LEARN's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
LEARN & PLAY INC TA PLAY & LEARN runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding LEARN & PLAY INC TA PLAY & LEARN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $173k on record.
- FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $170k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $3k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LEARN & PLAY INC TA PLAY & LEARN
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Jenkintown Day Nursery · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEARN & PLAY INC TA PLAY & LEARN: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEARN & PLAY INC TA PLAY & LEARN?
- LEARN & PLAY INC TA PLAY & LEARN (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $667,380 to it, the largest being JENKINTOWN DAY NURSERY FOUNDATION ($547,937). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEARN & PLAY INC TA PLAY & LEARN have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $667,380 in grants to LEARN & PLAY INC TA PLAY & LEARN, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEARN & PLAY INC TA PLAY & LEARN?
- JENKINTOWN DAY NURSERY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $547,937 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEARN & PLAY INC TA PLAY & LEARN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing