Colorado · Nonprofit
Bear Canyon Elementary PTA
Bear Canyon Elementary PTA (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,561 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,341). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $87k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $30k
What Bear Canyon Elementary PTA does
Mission
Classroom, teacher, and school support through community. To promote the welfare of children at Bear Canyon Elementary School, to institute a closer relationship between home and school; and to support educators and the public in an effort to improve the educational environment of the children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Purchased misc curriculum support, such as BrainPop, StemScopes, Heggerty Phonics, Curriculum Assoc
$33,501 spent28% of program spendingProvided updated playground equipment and basketball court upgrades.
$27,648 spent23% of program spendingOne School One Book purchase for every student. Program reinforces reading instruction, increases parental involvement, bridges the home-school connection, and builds a true community of readers.
$1,854 spent2% of program spendingStudent Enrichment
$55,335 spent47% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $118,338.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $8k to $54k (+602%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $220 → $454.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 Bear Canyon Elementary PTA’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
Bear Canyon Elementary PTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 Bear Canyon Elementary PTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 55% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
86% of Bear Canyon Elementary PTA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $220 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like Bear Canyon Elementary PTA
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Bear Canyon Elementary PTA: 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 Bear Canyon Elementary PTA?
- Bear Canyon Elementary PTA (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,561 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,341). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Bear Canyon Elementary PTA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,561 in grants to Bear Canyon Elementary PTA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bear Canyon Elementary PTA?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,341 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bear Canyon Elementary PTA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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