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GRANITE FALLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO INC

GRANITE FALLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,608 to it, the largest being CARRIS CORPORATION FOUNDATION ($11,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$51k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$16k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Granite Falls Elementary School PTO Inc does

Mission

To enhance the educational experience of the gfes students.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Instructional support - providing classroom supplies for teachers and their assistants; providing specialty prorgram equipment and supplies (I.e.-art, music, pe, computers, reading & speech therapy), enrichment programs and grade level eog test preparation supplies.

    $78,483 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $78,483.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($32k) Expenses 100 ($33k) Net assets 100 ($49k)2018 Revenue 178 ($57k) Expenses 132 ($44k) Net assets 126 ($62k)2019 Revenue 125 ($40k) Expenses 150 ($50k) Net assets 106 ($52k)2020 Revenue 47 ($15k) Expenses 95 ($32k) Net assets 72 ($35k)2021 Revenue 43 ($14k) Expenses 75 ($25k) Net assets 49 ($24k)2022 Revenue 200 ($64k) Expenses 128 ($43k) Net assets 93 ($46k)2023 Revenue 128 ($41k) Expenses 145 ($48k) Net assets 79 ($39k)2025 Revenue 201 ($65k) Expenses 200 ($67k) Net assets 90 ($44k)2026 Revenue 157 ($51k) Expenses 234 ($78k) Net assets 33 ($16k)
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Revenue (157)Expenses (234)Net assets (33)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2025 to 2026, from $44k to $16k (−64%).

$49k
$62k
$52k
$35k
$24k
$46k
$39k
$44k
$16k
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Total assets

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of GRANITE FALLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,912 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1k
’17
$13k
’18
−$10k
’19
−$16k
’20
−$11k
’21
$22k
’22
−$7k
’23
−$2k
’25
−$28k
’26
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $38 → $3k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
2
2
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 GRANITE FALLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO 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

GRANITE FALLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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

95%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 96% · 2023 92% — 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

GRANITE FALLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.

VT

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $608 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GRANITE FALLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO INC has grown faster than half of the 1,807 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−55% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,807 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2026

Organizations like GRANITE FALLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO INC

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In North Carolina

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05Profile & governance

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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds GRANITE FALLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO INC?
GRANITE FALLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,608 to it, the largest being CARRIS CORPORATION FOUNDATION ($11,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GRANITE FALLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $11,608 in grants to GRANITE FALLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GRANITE FALLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO INC?
CARRIS CORPORATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GRANITE FALLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 2 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing