Missouri · Nonprofit
PHILLIPS LISTENS INC
PHILLIPS LISTENS INC (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,120,076 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($9,045,076). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Phillips Listens Inc does
Programs
Chapman foundation for caring communities partners with government and non-profit entities to embed our programs within their organizations. The foundation trains facilitators in these partner organizations and provides materials and start-up support to allow our partners to offer our workshops within their organizations and as outreach to their communities. Through our programs, our partner organizations: - create more positive work environments, - cultivate compassionate organizational cultures, - improve communication within their organizations and with those whom they serveour partners include city governments, churches, educational institutions, and military bases. In 2023, chapman foundation for caring communities partnered with 15 organizations to provide 66 workshops serving 1,276 participants.direct expenses: $1,064,728; overhead allocated: $76,693; total expenditure for direct charitable activities: $1,141,421
$1,141,421 spentGuided by our vision of a society in which people care about others first, phillips listens (d/b/a chapman foundation for caring communities) offers distinctive learning experiences that transform individuals and communities through the power of empathetic engagement. Participants in our workshops: - gain awareness of their own behavior tendencies and how those tendencies impact others, - learn how to listen to understand and speak to be understood, - cultivate a more compassionate perspective, - develop strategies for handling difficult conversations in 2023, chapman foundation for caring communities conducted 68 workshops serving 1,070 participants in 23 communities. Alumnae of our workshops are also offered a variety of in-person and online learning opportunities to reinforce and enhance the skills learned in the workshop.direct expenses: $982,826; overhead allocated: $70,794; total expenditure for direct charitable activities: $1,053,620
$1,053,620 spentIn-kind support: we rely on in-kind support from businesses and other organizations to keep our operating costs low. For financial statement purposes, recordable support in the current year was $36,247.donations include, but are not limited to: - office space and utilities, - website hosting, and - technical support
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.
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 $1.1M to $1.5M (+42%).
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
Misty Janks
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $850k → $2.0M.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 PHILLIPS LISTENS INC’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
PHILLIPS LISTENS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund PHILLIPS LISTENS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 70% · 2021 63% · 2022 100% · 2023 54% — 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.
Where its funders are
75% of PHILLIPS LISTENS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.1M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 LISTENS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding PHILLIPS LISTENS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $174k on record.
- Department of Defense$174k
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 PHILLIPS LISTENS 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PHILLIPS LISTENS INC: 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 PHILLIPS LISTENS INC?
- PHILLIPS LISTENS INC (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,120,076 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($9,045,076). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PHILLIPS LISTENS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $12,120,076 in grants to PHILLIPS LISTENS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHILLIPS LISTENS INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $9,045,076 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHILLIPS LISTENS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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