Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BOWEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION
BOWEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,059 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,119). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $38k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $25k
What Bowen Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization does
Mission
The Bowen Elementary School Parent-Teacher Organization (Bowen PTO) is a volunteer, parent-run, non-profit organization committed to enhancing the education of our children directly and by supporting the teachers and principal to provide an optimal educational experience for all students. Our mission is to bridge the gap between school and home, between city funds and individual needs. We seek to keep parents connected and informed, give families a collective voice with the principal and school, and foster a vibrant and engaging community at The Bowen Elementary School.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Form 990-EZ, Part III, Line 28 - First Accomplishment Classroom Support: Grants provided to elementary school teachers to supplement the school district and teachers expenditures for general classroom supplies across all full time teachers and classroom specialists such as Library, Math, and Art specialists. Benefits every classroom.
$0 spentof which $7,650 as grants0% of program spendingForm 990-EZ, Part III, Line 29 - Second Accomplishment Creative Arts and Sciences Program: Implements curriculum related enrichment programs in city elementary schools. Programs enhance Art, English, language arts, history, cultural, social sciences, music, physical education, and the sciences curricula. Benefits all students.
$14,382 spent85% of program spendingLibrary was fully funded, receiving $2,453 in direct support of restocking library materials.
$2,453 spent15% of program spendingForm 990-EZ, Part III, Line 31 - All Other Accomplishments
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $16,835.
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. 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 2021 to 2022, from $36k to $32k (−11%).
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.
98% of BOWEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $300 → $202.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 BOWEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 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
BOWEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 BOWEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 64% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
BOWEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
BOWEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BOWEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION
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 Massachusetts
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOWEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION: 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 BOWEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION?
- BOWEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,059 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,119). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOWEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $3,059 in grants to BOWEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOWEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,119 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOWEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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