Alaska · Nonprofit
PLAY N LEARN CENTER INC
PLAY N LEARN CENTER INC (Alaska) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,986,809 to it, the largest being Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread ($5,678,688). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Play N Learn Center Inc does
Mission
Helping children, families, and communities thrive by providing high quality family-focused services that advocate for and strengthen children, families, and staff.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Head start birth to five is a state and federal funded program serving approximately 150 eligible low income families in the fairbanks north star borough.
$2,484,938 spent$374,082 earned by the program72% of program spendingChild care program:school age program - provides before and after school services for children who attend pearl creek and ladd elementary, and full time care during holidays and school breaks, during the school year.co-pay - the amount of full day early head start, head start and school age families pay, whch is determined by the state of alaska or the tanana chiefs conference.sprouts and clubhouse - child care and before and after school program for employees of head start and partnering organizations.
$861,810 spent$439,502 earned by the program25% of program spendingChild and adult care food program provides head start birth to five enrolled children with breakfast, lunch and snack each day.
$127,615 spent4% of program spendingOther programs
$0 spent$19,956 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,474,363.
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 $2.4M to $5.6M (+133%).
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.
81% of PLAY N LEARN CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Kelly Doughty
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $53k → $1.9M.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 PLAY N LEARN CENTER 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
PLAY N LEARN CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 PLAY N LEARN CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 99% · 2019 62% · 2020 96% · 2021 94% · 2022 96% · 2023 98% — 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 PLAY N LEARN CENTER INC's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $73k 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
PLAY N LEARN CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PLAY N LEARN CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$20.1M
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 PLAY N LEARN 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 Alaska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PLAY N LEARN CENTER 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 PLAY N LEARN CENTER INC?
- PLAY N LEARN CENTER INC (Alaska) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,986,809 to it, the largest being Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread ($5,678,688). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PLAY N LEARN CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $5,986,809 in grants to PLAY N LEARN CENTER INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PLAY N LEARN CENTER INC?
- Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread is the largest funder on record, with $5,678,688 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PLAY N LEARN CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 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