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BEN FRANKLIN ACADEMY PARENT-TEACHER ORGANIZATION

BEN FRANKLIN ACADEMY PARENT-TEACHER ORGANIZATION (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,498 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($5,826). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$178k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$8k
Net assets
$85k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Ben Franklin Academy Parent-Teacher Organization does

Mission

Ben franklin parent-teacher organization was formed primarily to provide support for ben franklin academy charter school. The school is a "k" through "8" public charter school that opened in 2011. The sole purpose of the corporation is to assist the school in accomplishing its educational mission by coordinating parent volunteers, assisting with the coordination of school lunches, publishing a newsletter to keep parents and students informed of important policies, meetings and other school related activities, publishing a yearbook, and assisting the school with periodic fundraisers.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The bfapto organizes and operates various community building events during the year which are designed to encourage participation in school or athletic activities by students and their families.bfapto organizes students and volunteers to produce and edit a periodic school newsletter in order to foster responsibility and encourage participation as well as to inform the community of issues and events relevant to the school community.all of these activities enable the bfapto to accomplish its primary purpose in providing support for the charter school through grants.

    $166,880 spentof which $77,208 as grants$59,519 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $166,880.

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 ($123k) Expenses 100 ($186k) Net assets 100 ($111k)2018 Revenue 143 ($176k) Expenses 60 ($112k) Net assets 158 ($175k)2019 Revenue 99 ($122k) Expenses 121 ($226k) Net assets 64 ($71k)2020 Revenue 69 ($85k) Expenses 53 ($99k) Net assets 51 ($57k)2021 Revenue 107 ($132k) Expenses 67 ($124k) Net assets 58 ($65k)2022 Revenue 148 ($182k) Expenses 87 ($162k) Net assets 76 ($85k)2023 Revenue 130 ($160k) Expenses 88 ($165k) Net assets 72 ($80k)2024 Revenue 145 ($178k) Expenses 93 ($174k) Net assets 76 ($85k)
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Revenue (145)Expenses (93)Net assets (76)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 2018 to 2019, from $175k to $71k (−60%).

$111k
$175k
$71k
$57k
$65k
$85k
$80k
$85k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

67% of BEN FRANKLIN ACADEMY PARENT-TEACHER ORGANIZATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$63k
’17
$64k
’18
−$104k
’19
−$14k
’20
$8k
’21
$20k
’22
−$4k
’23
$5k
’24
5.8
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.

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Listed77777777
Joined·+5+4+5+3+4+2+1
No longer listed·5453421
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $309 → $731.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 BEN FRANKLIN ACADEMY PARENT-TEACHER ORGANIZATION’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

BEN FRANKLIN ACADEMY PARENT-TEACHER ORGANIZATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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

99% 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 BEN FRANKLIN ACADEMY PARENT-TEACHER ORGANIZATION.

69%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 86% · 2022 86% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

99% of BEN FRANKLIN ACADEMY PARENT-TEACHER ORGANIZATION'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 $100 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state.

MN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

BEN FRANKLIN ACADEMY PARENT-TEACHER ORGANIZATION's revenue grew 45% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve5.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like BEN FRANKLIN ACADEMY PARENT-TEACHER ORGANIZATION

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 2%Fundraising 2%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BEN FRANKLIN ACADEMY PARENT-TEACHER ORGANIZATION?
BEN FRANKLIN ACADEMY PARENT-TEACHER ORGANIZATION (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,498 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($5,826). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BEN FRANKLIN ACADEMY PARENT-TEACHER ORGANIZATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $8,498 in grants to BEN FRANKLIN ACADEMY PARENT-TEACHER ORGANIZATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BEN FRANKLIN ACADEMY PARENT-TEACHER ORGANIZATION?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,826 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BEN FRANKLIN ACADEMY PARENT-TEACHER ORGANIZATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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