South Carolina · Nonprofit
CATAWBA TRAIL ELEMENTARY PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION
CATAWBA TRAIL ELEMENTARY PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $152 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($152). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $56k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $152
- Net assets
- $7k
What Catawba Trail Elementary Parent Teacher Organization does
Mission
Catawba Trail Elementary PTO aims to fund beautification projects or big ticket items for the school assist in scheduling parent volunteers for various school events and provide teachers and staff a mental boost through meals and or beverages in order to provide the best learning environment possible for our students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Boosterthon is a fun run the kids do around a track behind the school. Parents families friends and businesses contribute either a flat rate or an amount per lap. For this school year the goal was to raise money for outdoor learning environments so the kids arent always having to sit in the classroom. The profits will go towards fixing and beautifying a coy pond and garden area in the back of the school and towards new tables and seating for the courtyard.
$21,360 spent53% of program spendingOur Boosterthon proceeds this year went towards classroom equipment for the related arts teachers. We purchased new risers for the kids to stand on during performances that are easier to move. We purchased new Beams buckets for storage jump ropes soccer balls storage scooters floor dots and more to give our students new activities to do and gives them the ability to move things around without hurting themselves. And lastly we purchased new recorders for the Music teacher to use with the 5th graders who will also keep them at the end of the year.
$11,637 spent29% of program spendingPenguin Patch Holiday Shop gives the students the ability to purchase small knick-knacks for pre-determined individuals. It could be for their parents grandparents friends etc. Proceeds go towards serving the teachers and staff or purchasing books for the book vending machine for students at no cost to them who meet behavioral and educational requirements set by the teachers and administrators.
$7,401 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $40,398.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $42k to $14k (−66%).
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.
100% of CATAWBA TRAIL ELEMENTARY PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $63 → $89.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CATAWBA TRAIL ELEMENTARY 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CATAWBA TRAIL ELEMENTARY 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $152 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
CATAWBA TRAIL ELEMENTARY PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION has grown faster than half 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 CATAWBA TRAIL ELEMENTARY 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 South Carolina
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CATAWBA TRAIL ELEMENTARY PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION?
- CATAWBA TRAIL ELEMENTARY PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $152 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($152). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CATAWBA TRAIL ELEMENTARY PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $152 in grants to CATAWBA TRAIL ELEMENTARY PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CATAWBA TRAIL ELEMENTARY PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $152 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATAWBA TRAIL ELEMENTARY PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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