Montana · Nonprofit
SPIRIT AT PLAY INC
SPIRIT AT PLAY INC (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being THE APPLESEED FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $440k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $293k
What Spirit at Play Inc does
Mission
Early childhood education and care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Spirit at Play (SAP) Early Child Program, established in 1991, serves children from ages 2 to 6 during the school term and children up to age 9 in the summer program. This non-profit educational program is licensed through the State of Montanas Department of Public Health & Human Services.The school strives to follow the National Association for the Education of Young Childrens (NAEYC) guidelines for early childhood programs. NAEYCs Developmentally Appropriate Practice, Howard Gardners Multiple Intelligences Theory, Reggio Emilia Philosophy, Play-Based Education and the Project Approach are blended and utilized as educational systems for the children enrolled in the program. Spirit at Play is continually working toward being sustainable and the children are being taught sustainable ways to work within the school and the local community to utilize its resources.The School is committed to providing early childhood education to the whole community and does not participate in any form of discrimination based on race, religion, sex, national origin, handicap, or age.Some of the unique activities that the staff make available to children and families enrolled in the school are:…
$362,028 spent$433,533 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $362,028.
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 2021 to 2022, from $271k to $369k (+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 3% · 2018 1% · 2020 11% · 2021 26% · 2022 19% · 2023 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of SPIRIT AT PLAY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SPIRIT AT PLAY 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.
Where its funders are
100% of SPIRIT AT PLAY INC's grant income comes from Montana funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SPIRIT AT PLAY INC is better cushioned 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 SPIRIT AT PLAY 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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPIRIT AT PLAY 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 SPIRIT AT PLAY INC?
- SPIRIT AT PLAY INC (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being THE APPLESEED FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPIRIT AT PLAY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,500 in grants to SPIRIT AT PLAY INC.
- Who is the largest funder of SPIRIT AT PLAY INC?
- THE APPLESEED FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPIRIT AT PLAY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 1 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