California · Nonprofit
LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY PTO
LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY PTO (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,830 to it, the largest being Global Impact ($47,956). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $51k
- Net assets
- $92k
What Lake Forest Elementary PTO does
Mission
Gifts and grants to lake forest elementary 800+ students
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
All other program services
$27,501 spent52% of program spendingLfe to fund part of their brainstorm stem education program. Brainstorm taught 3 lessons to each class for grades k-6 last year. Our payment covers 1/3 of the program.
$7,390 spent14% of program spendingTeacher start up fund reimbursed teacher for supplies they personally bought
$7,327 spent14% of program spendingFrom pto reserves:book vending machine. Students that are recognized as student of the month get to pick a free book from there and that is also where students who are a part of the birthday book club get to choose their book from.
$6,640 spent13% of program spendingFrom pto reserves:purchase various stem and technology equipment for our new innovation lab.
$4,238 spent8% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $53,096.
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 2020 to 2021, from $126k to $102k (−19%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $48k → $443.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY 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
LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY PTO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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 LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY PTO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY 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 $752 that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY 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 LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY PTO?
- LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY PTO (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,830 to it, the largest being Global Impact ($47,956). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY PTO have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $50,830 in grants to LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY PTO, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY PTO?
- Global Impact is the largest funder on record, with $47,956 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY PTO 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