Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Golden Tornado Scholastic Foundation Inc
Golden Tornado Scholastic Foundation Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $466,330 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($299,554). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $605k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $466k
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Golden Tornado Scholastic Foundation Inc does
Mission
The Golden Tornado Scholastic Foundation is a non-profit group that aims to help the students of the Butler Area School District. We encourage endowments to the Pittsburgh Foundation for scholarships and creative teaching grants and solicit funds through various fundraising events throughout the year.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Student scholarships and creative teaching grants which provide funds for staff members to develop creative and unique programs that are beneficial to students. Student scholarships are funded through various fundraisers and the Buck Starts Here Campaign where employees can donate money through payroll deduction.
$195,628 spent71% of program spendingWeekend backpack program - supplies weekend food for students in need. The program is available to all students in grades Kindergarten through 5th grade. Each Friday, children are provided child-friendly, single serving snacks and easily prepared meals in the their backpack.
$68,871 spent25% of program spendingTuff tornado run - fundraising event held at a local park where individuals and teams compete in a 2 mile run with obstacles.
$5,760 spent$23,729 earned by the program2% of program spendingFAB showcase - an annual event where student artwork and artwork from local professional artists are displayed and sold through silent auctions. In addition, gift baskets and other items donated by each school and local businesses are raffled off.
$4,097 spent$41,202 earned by the program1% of program spendingConduct various events to raise funds to support the activities and programs of the Foundation. Also collect naming rights for various items at the Butler Area School District football stadium.
$20,725 earned by the program
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $274,356.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $3.7M to $4.3M (+16%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $45k → $101k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 Golden Tornado Scholastic Foundation Inc’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
Golden Tornado Scholastic Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
65% 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 Golden Tornado Scholastic Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 95% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 100% · 2022 63% · 2023 56% — 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.
How long its funders stay
20% of Golden Tornado Scholastic Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
65% of Golden Tornado Scholastic Foundation Inc'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 $161k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $305k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like Golden Tornado Scholastic Foundation Inc
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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 Golden Tornado Scholastic Foundation Inc: 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 Golden Tornado Scholastic Foundation Inc?
- Golden Tornado Scholastic Foundation Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $466,330 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($299,554). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Golden Tornado Scholastic Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $466,330 in grants to Golden Tornado Scholastic Foundation Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Golden Tornado Scholastic Foundation Inc?
- THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $299,554 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Golden Tornado Scholastic Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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