Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
WORKSHOP LEARNING
WORKSHOP LEARNING (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,412,626 to it, the largest being THE BARRA FOUNDATION INC ($368,280). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $984k
What Workshop Learning does
Mission
The organization's primary purpose is to provide high school students with the opportunity to learn rigorous academic content through real-world problem solving. The organization's mission is through real-world learning, robust community, and personal growth, empower young adults to pursue a life of security, connection, and purpose. The organization challenges students to know themselves, seek and leverage opportunities that align with their interests and goals, develop skills that let them succeed in a wide range of educational and professional settings, and draw productive and actionable lessons from their experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To accomplish the organization's mission, collaborative projects were designed for high school students that present difficult and evolving challenges for them. The students will work through these challenges together and will be able to document the results of their work. These experiences will provide them with the opportunities to unleash their creative and intellectual potential. Planning for these projects was undertaken throughout the fiscal year, and the actual projects were implemented in the school year. This work is done through three primary channels: 1. The workshop school - a high school that envisions graduates who value learning and growth, build community, and know how to shape their lives and our world. The school focuses on real-world learning to develop the skills most needed for college and career success, stresses the value of community, and teaches students to reflect on and grow from experiences inside and outside the classroom. 2. Learning@workshop - through electronic resources, professional development and consulting, learning@workshop aims to share lessons learned with a community far beyond west philadelphia. 3. Workshop u - at workshop u, students…
$908,118 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $908,118.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.0M to $2.4M (+141%).
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: 2023 27% · 2024 35% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of WORKSHOP LEARNING’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Kamal Marell
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $60k → $112k.
5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 WORKSHOP LEARNING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 23 funders by total. 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
WORKSHOP LEARNING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
29% 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 WORKSHOP LEARNING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 66% · 2019 72% · 2020 98% · 2021 60% · 2022 55% · 2023 67% — 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
60% of WORKSHOP LEARNING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% give in more than one year at all.
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
71% of WORKSHOP LEARNING's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $283k 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
WORKSHOP LEARNING is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WORKSHOP LEARNING
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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 WORKSHOP LEARNING: 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 WORKSHOP LEARNING?
- WORKSHOP LEARNING (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,412,626 to it, the largest being THE BARRA FOUNDATION INC ($368,280). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORKSHOP LEARNING have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,412,626 in grants to WORKSHOP LEARNING, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORKSHOP LEARNING?
- THE BARRA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $368,280 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORKSHOP LEARNING 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 23 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