Form 990-EZ for tax year 2024
Filed by PHILOSOPHIC SYSTEMS INSTITUTE.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $0
- Total expenses
- not reported
- Contributions and grants received
- not reported
- Grants paid
- not reported
- Program service revenue
- not reported
- Membership dues (line 3)
- not reported
- Investment income (line 4)
- not reported
- Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
- not reported
- Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
- not reported
- Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
- not reported
- Other revenue (line 8)
- not reported
- Total assets, end of year
- $0
- Total liabilities, end of year
- not reported
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $0
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- not reported
Mission and programs · 2024
Primary exempt purpose
To provide empowering transformational learning practices for a more just society through higher learning programs that integrate philosophy, arts, humanities, and scientific inquiry. The organization's programs integrate advanced research with best learning practices to aim to serve the community of learners, but with a focus on those economically and academically disadvantaged.
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Lightstream (LS) - Juvenile Diversion, Reentry, and Incarceration Transformative Education ProgramContinued development of LS as part of the Juvenile Probation Department (JPD) of El Paso CountyDesigned and developed a new version LS for youth in detention and at Challenge Academy at JPDContinued the collaboration to implement LS as part of El Paso ISDs Alternative School and Alternative programs for students in Alternative and those justice involved Continued the development of social systems supports with our innovative embedded social work teamAlamito STREAM Center (Alamito) - a family and community focused center, at the heart of one of the poorest zip-codes in the USA, for developing co-designed innovative solutions to actual problems and challenges as part of our Transformative Learning Communities, using the best of STREAM (Science, Technology, Reasoning/Logic, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics)Continued design and development of Alamito in collaboration with HOME, formerly know as the Housing Authority of El PasoDesigned and developed several programs in collaboration with UTEP, EPCC, Borderplex Connect, EPIH for when Alamito opens on December 2024Continued to work with community and an advisory board to combat poverty, inequity, and lack to access to real opportunitiesContinued the collaboration with HOME to implement programming at several HOME sites in preparation with the opening of Alamito, served over 250 individuals and familiesHired a full time Vista Scholar, in partnership with UTEP, to spearhead the programReceived an MCAD grant to work with local and NY artists to implement a collaborative arts program in 2024-2025Continued the development of social systems supports with our innovative embedded social work teamEl Paso Science Festival (EPSF) Collaborative - Annual STEM festival service the El Paso and Juarez region, showcasing to youth and families, the power of scientific inquiry and of STEM fieldsPSIs ED is one of the 3 founders of EPSF, also a non-profit orgPSI collaborated closely with EPSFs team to design, develop and bring to fruition the first annual EPSF on April 6-7, 2024 at the El Paso Convention centerWe served over 10,000 individuals!Continued the collaboration with EPSF to enhance future iterations of the festival
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part IV
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John McClure PhD
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 0.25
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Andrs Muro PhD
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 0.25
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Stephanie Otero
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 5.5
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Sean Ihorn
Director/Treas
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 0.25
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Juan Ferret PhD
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 40
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Kim Daz PhD
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 14
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Mika Cohen
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 40
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Maggie Snchez-Mercado
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 0.5
Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990_ez
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 12 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202523169349201787
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