Washington · Nonprofit
PHILOSOPHY LEARNING AND TEACHING ORG
PHILOSOPHY LEARNING AND TEACHING ORG (Washington) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,148 to it, the largest being MRS GILES WHITING FOUNDATION ($60,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $387k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $175k
- Net assets
- $782k
What Philosophy Learning and Teaching Org does
Mission
PLATO nurtures young peoples curiosity, critical thinking, and desire to explore big questions, through philosophy and ethics programs for students, educators, and families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our program aims to bring philosophy into the lives of young people, teachers and other educators, and families and communities. In 2025, over 10,000 educators and students participated in PLATOs online and in-person events, workshops, and classes. More than 100,000 people visited our new resource-rich website. Our Philosopher-in-Residence Program expanded nationally and is now operating in six states, and creative new high school and middle school offerings attracted students and teachers across the country and internationally. We ran our 7th Biennial Conference in Boston, which attracted nearly 100 people from 6 countries.
$273,529 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $273,529.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $66k to $781k (+1082%).
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.
67% of PHILOSOPHY LEARNING AND TEACHING ORG’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $20k → $18k.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 PHILOSOPHY LEARNING AND TEACHING ORG’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
PHILOSOPHY LEARNING AND TEACHING ORG leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 PHILOSOPHY LEARNING AND TEACHING ORG.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 88% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
61% of PHILOSOPHY LEARNING AND TEACHING ORG'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 $69k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $106k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
PHILOSOPHY LEARNING AND TEACHING ORG runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PHILOSOPHY LEARNING AND TEACHING ORG
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PHILOSOPHY LEARNING AND TEACHING ORG: 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 PHILOSOPHY LEARNING AND TEACHING ORG?
- PHILOSOPHY LEARNING AND TEACHING ORG (Washington) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,148 to it, the largest being MRS GILES WHITING FOUNDATION ($60,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PHILOSOPHY LEARNING AND TEACHING ORG have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $175,148 in grants to PHILOSOPHY LEARNING AND TEACHING ORG, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHILOSOPHY LEARNING AND TEACHING ORG?
- MRS GILES WHITING FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHILOSOPHY LEARNING AND TEACHING ORG find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 7 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