California · Nonprofit
Discovery Charter School Ptc
Discovery Charter School Ptc (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,700 to it, the largest being EAST COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $48k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $18k
- Net assets
- $0
What Discovery Charter School Ptc does
Mission
PTC Parents Teachers and Children is Discovery Charter Schools form of a PTA Parent Teacher Association. PTC is a non-profit organization that is comprised of parent volunteers with the support of the Discovery Charter School community. An elected PTC Executive Board helps facilitate PTC meetings and school events. PTCs mission is to provide a variety of social and educational activities and events for the parents children and community that Discovery Charter School encompasses focusing on fostering relationships that will build our community. Membership dues are retained by Discovery Charter School and are used for the growth and improvement of the school community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Discovery ptc provided students with enrichment opportunities. Some examples include funding off campus field trips for students such as to the san diego zoo sea world and the symphony. Funding covers buses and admission to field trip locations. Funding also went to school clubs and activities such as safety patrol student council robotics club after school music clubs and sports teams. The ptc also puts on family events such as the annual campout movie night and spring festival. Contributions also go to promotion ceremonies for the exiting 6th and 8th grade students,school wide science fair an english learner reclassification ceremony and field day.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $46k to $94k (+105%).
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.
13% of Discovery Charter School Ptc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $369 → $16k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 Discovery Charter School Ptc’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
Discovery Charter School Ptc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% 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 Discovery Charter School Ptc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 96% — diversifying over time.
“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 Discovery Charter School Ptc's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3k 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
Discovery Charter School Ptc runs a healthier operating margin 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 Discovery Charter School Ptc
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Discovery Charter School Ptc: 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 Discovery Charter School Ptc?
- Discovery Charter School Ptc (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,700 to it, the largest being EAST COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Discovery Charter School Ptc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $17,700 in grants to Discovery Charter School Ptc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Discovery Charter School Ptc?
- EAST COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Discovery Charter School Ptc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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