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THE LEARNING LAMP INC

THE LEARNING LAMP INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,177,863 to it, the largest being 1889 FOUNDATION INC ($786,313). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$17M
Funders on record
30
Grants received
$4.2M
Net assets
$7.7M
19/30 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What The Learning Lamp Inc does

Mission

The mission of the learning lamp is to engage students in the support they need to succeed.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The learning lamp provides schools and students with additional support in the classroom setting through personal care and instructional aides, teacher aides in special education classrooms, math and reading tutors, title I tutors, school psychologists, social workers, nurses, occupational and speech and language therapists, english as a second language (esl) and homebound instructors. This program offers children the additional attention they need to achieve their true potential. In 2025, these programs served 11,774 students.

    $3,956,362 spent$4,881,514 earned by the program
    28% of program spending
  2. The learning lamp offers high quality, educationally focused child care for families of all income levels. Programs meet the highest standards of health and safety. Classroom lessons, beginning in infancy, are aligned with the pa early learning standards. Research-based curriculum is implemented across all age groups. For preschool students, curriculum is focused on building early reading skills. The learning lamp is accredited through the national association for the education of young children (naeyc) and is a keystone star 4a provider, the highest level in pennsylvania's quality improvement system for child care. The organization operates 22 licensed locations, including child care centers, preschool classrooms and before and after school programs. 1,001 children attended these programs in 2025.

    $3,056,640 spent$3,115,041 earned by the program
    22% of program spending
  3. The substitute teacher program helps schools address a critical staffing need by providing qualified, trained substitutes to fill teacher absences, ensuring students make academic progress even when their classroom teacher is absent. In 2025, this program served 15,164 students in 15 school districts, career and technology centers, and other educational entities in bedford, cambria and somerset counties.

    $2,418,762 spent$2,658,044 earned by the program
    17% of program spending
  4. All other programs, including but not limited to alternative education, outreach programs, online learning and workshops/camps.

    $4,479,983 spentof which $463,644 as grants$1,246,657 earned by the program
    32% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,911,747.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.6M) Expenses 100 ($7.6M) Net assets 100 ($836k)2018 Revenue 114 ($8.7M) Expenses 113 ($8.6M) Net assets 118 ($984k)2019 Revenue 129 ($9.8M) Expenses 123 ($9.3M) Net assets 175 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 116 ($8.8M) Expenses 106 ($8.0M) Net assets 272 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 177 ($13M) Expenses 149 ($11M) Net assets 528 ($4.4M)2022 Revenue 208 ($16M) Expenses 180 ($14M) Net assets 776 ($6.5M)2023 Revenue 204 ($16M) Expenses 198 ($15M) Net assets 861 ($7.2M)2024 Revenue 209 ($16M) Expenses 204 ($15M) Net assets 926 ($7.7M)2025 Revenue 217 ($17M) Expenses 219 ($17M) Net assets 924 ($7.7M)
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Revenue (217)Expenses (219)Net assets (924)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $2.5M to $5.1M (+109%).

$1.6M
$1.8M
$2.5M
$5.1M
$6.8M
$9.2M
$9.1M
$9.3M
$9.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2018 6% · 2019 8% · 2020 22% · 2021 28% · 2022 24% · 2023 22% · 2024 20% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

27% of THE LEARNING LAMP INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$26k
’17
$149k
’18
$477k
’19
$793k
’20
$2.1M
’21
$2.2M
’22
$564k
’23
$460k
’24
−$57k
’25
1.4
months of
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

Nichole Wozniak

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed161817181818181818
Joined·+4+2+4+2+0+3+0+2
No longer listed·23320302
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $160k → $548k.

5 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 THE LEARNING LAMP 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

THE LEARNING LAMP INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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

74% 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 THE LEARNING LAMP INC.

19%
largest funder
49%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 51% · 2019 51% · 2020 51% · 2021 43% · 2022 38% · 2023 32% — 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

58% of THE LEARNING LAMP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

98% of THE LEARNING LAMP INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $792k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE LEARNING LAMP INC has grown faster than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve1.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding THE LEARNING LAMP INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.

Federal$1.2M
grants $1.2Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Appalachian Regional Commission$782k
  • Department of Agriculture$327k
  • National Endowment for the Arts$100k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 15%Fundraising 1%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE LEARNING LAMP INC?
THE LEARNING LAMP INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,177,863 to it, the largest being 1889 FOUNDATION INC ($786,313). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE LEARNING LAMP INC have?
IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $4,177,863 in grants to THE LEARNING LAMP INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE LEARNING LAMP INC?
1889 FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $786,313 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE LEARNING LAMP INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 30 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