Kansas · Nonprofit
PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC
PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC (Kansas) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,502,998 to it, the largest being DWANE L AND VELMA LUNT WALLACE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,456,212). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 80
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $20M
What Phillips Fundamental Learning Center Inc does
Mission
To promote educational development, specializing in techniques necessary to teach individuals with dyslexia and/or written language disorders.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Teacher professional development and awareness program:phillips fundamental learning center's teacher training courses intensively train classroom teachers, reading specialists and other educators on methodologies and remediation strategies for dyslexia and/or written language disorders. Phillips fundamental learning center also offers dyslexia screening to applicants. In addition, pflc facilitates monthly lectures to help parents and educators understand dyslexia. Pflc's most popular lecture is captioned: "a walk in their shoes." this simulation demonstrates to educators and parents what it feels like to be dyslexic. The simulation provides parents and children with a glimpse into the struggles associated with dyslexia and offers help and hope. Most recently, pflc developed and released original teacher training curriculum. This curriculum is a research-based literacy instruction manual designed to give emerging readers ages 5-7 the gift of literacy. The curriculum is a wonderful tool and includes a full set of lesson plans. It can be adapted for children of all ages and learning styles. Pflc's vision is "all children reading . . . All children succeeding". . Pflc admits students…
$727,986 spent$77,031 earned by the program24% of program spendingRolph literacy academy (rla): rolph literacy academy (rla) is a private school for children ages 5 through 10 designed to assist children with dyslexia and other reading difficulties. Rla educators are committed to providing a stimulating environment where children's talents are expressed, valued, and optimally utilized through careful planning of meaningful, experiential learning across all areas. Rla specializes in teaching children to read, write and spell by tapping into each child's individual learning style. At rla, students participate in a full-day curriculum of instruction, including alphabetic phonics. Rla's goal is to academically challenge out-of-the-box thinkers in a wide range of academic areas; such as science, technology, engineering, art, math, physical education, and music. Students emerge from rla ready to return to neighborhood schools with reading skills, self-confidence, and the necessary academic resources that prepare them for future success. During the summer, rla offers an intense, six -week intervention program designed for children with dyslexia and other reading difficulties. Rla admits students of any race, color, national, and ethnic origin to all…
$1,728,919 spent$908,229 earned by the program57% of program spendingCurriculum development:pflc's long-standing practice of success working with children most resistant to learning to read has uniquely qualified our organization to create a new curriculum. We have launched this help for parents and teachers with a state-of-the-art, long distance training platform. Pflc has created "the sound case for emerging readers," a new, research-based curriculum with materials to aid in multisensory instruction for the youngest readers, ages 4 and 5. Phonological awareness and grammar with colors are additional curriculum currently being developed.
$582,354 spent$46,737 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,039,259.
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 $2.5M to $18M (+604%).
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: 2021 11% · 2022 1% · 2023 5% · 2024 61% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Marietta Wetzel
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 32 funders, grant income fell $2.2M → $1.4M.
11 of 80 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $15M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fundamental Literacy Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 80 funders by total. 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
PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 56% · 2019 27% · 2020 29% · 2021 37% · 2022 41% · 2023 37% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
52% of PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
53% of PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Fundamental Literacy Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC?
- PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC (Kansas) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,502,998 to it, the largest being DWANE L AND VELMA LUNT WALLACE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,456,212). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 80 organizations giving $14,502,998 in grants to PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC?
- DWANE L AND VELMA LUNT WALLACE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,456,212 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 80 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