Colorado · Nonprofit
Laurel Elementary PTO
Laurel Elementary PTO (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,375 to it, the largest being Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION ($1,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $49k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $10k
What Laurel Elementary PTO does
Mission
Ensure that funds raised are spent in the best possible ways to benefit the Laurel students and staff.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Laurel Elementary PTO raised $48,900 to support Laurel students and staff. Funds are made available to teachers through a grant process. The funds are used to purchase books for literacy math and innovative technology tools field trips classroom aids school yearbook subsidies live performances to promote health and fitness and school infrastructure.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $17k to $10k (−42%).
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 Laurel 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. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Laurel 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
Laurel Elementary PTO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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
“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
91% of Laurel Elementary PTO's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Laurel Elementary PTO has grown faster than half of the 17,804 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,804 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Laurel 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Laurel 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 Laurel Elementary PTO?
- Laurel Elementary PTO (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,375 to it, the largest being Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION ($1,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Laurel Elementary PTO have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,375 in grants to Laurel Elementary PTO, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Laurel Elementary PTO?
- Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Laurel Elementary PTO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 3 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