Minnesota · Nonprofit
FERNBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO
FERNBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,654 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,984). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $111k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $186k
What Fernbrook Elementary School PTO does
Mission
Our primary purpose is educational support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provide extra staffing in the building to support the school. This included a volunteer coordinator who helped the entire school as well as several Educational Support Staff members to support throughout the building.
$53,000 spent75% of program spendingWe provided money to cover subscriptions like RazKids and Scholastics for the school. These are used in the classrooms to help aid in the education of students. This helped the entire school by providing extra resources for all the students in the classroom.
$11,567 spent16% of program spendingWe provide each teacher with a $100 stipend to use as they please in their classroom. We know that they are not given enough funding so this allows them usually to get a few extra things for their class.
$6,000 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $70,567.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $121k to $161k (+33%).
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 FERNBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $127 → $720.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 FERNBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO’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
FERNBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 FERNBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 56% · 2022 100% · 2023 79% — 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
75% of FERNBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO'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 $670 that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k 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
FERNBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FERNBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
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 FERNBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO: 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 FERNBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO?
- FERNBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,654 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,984). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FERNBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $2,654 in grants to FERNBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FERNBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,984 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FERNBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 5 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