North Carolina · Nonprofit
LAKE NORMAN ELEMENTARY PTO
LAKE NORMAN ELEMENTARY PTO (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,266 to it, the largest being TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($80,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $50k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $90k
- Net assets
- $68k
What Lake Norman Elementary PTO does
Mission
To support the elementary school
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To support educational programs including audio visual, media, child theatre and other educational presentations and technology. To provice hospitality programs including registration and open houses. To support student achievement programs.
$36,210 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $36,210.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $36k to $85k (+134%).
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.
98% of LAKE NORMAN ELEMENTARY PTO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $36k → $1k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 NORMAN 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 NORMAN ELEMENTARY PTO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 NORMAN ELEMENTARY PTO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 84% · 2021 58% · 2022 98% · 2023 57% — 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
92% of LAKE NORMAN 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 $7k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $83k 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.
Against its field
LAKE NORMAN ELEMENTARY PTO's revenue fell 26% between 2021 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,807 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like LAKE NORMAN 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 North Carolina
Nationally
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAKE NORMAN 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 NORMAN ELEMENTARY PTO?
- LAKE NORMAN ELEMENTARY PTO (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,266 to it, the largest being TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($80,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LAKE NORMAN ELEMENTARY PTO have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $90,266 in grants to LAKE NORMAN ELEMENTARY PTO, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKE NORMAN ELEMENTARY PTO?
- TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKE NORMAN ELEMENTARY PTO 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 2021–2026), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing