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Lawton Alternative School PTA

Lawton Alternative School PTA (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,099 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($79,527). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$132k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$97k
Net assets
$227k
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Lawton Alternative School PTA does

Mission

The mission of the organization is to support the Lawton Alternative School students, teachers & administration with educational enrichment programs

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Supported the Lawton Alternative School students, teachers & administration with educational enrichment programs

    $102,747 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $102,747.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($116k) Expenses 100 ($125k) Net assets 100 ($104k)2018 Revenue 104 ($120k) Expenses 85 ($107k) Net assets 114 ($119k)2019 Revenue 154 ($179k) Expenses 121 ($151k) Net assets 143 ($149k)2020 Revenue 87 ($101k) Expenses 80 ($99k) Net assets 143 ($149k)2021 Revenue 24 ($28k) Expenses 52 ($65k) Net assets 108 ($112k)2023 Revenue 98 ($113k) Expenses 50 ($63k) Net assets 218 ($226k)2024 Revenue 109 ($126k) Expenses 114 ($143k) Net assets 199 ($207k)2025 Revenue 114 ($132k) Expenses 90 ($112k) Net assets 219 ($227k)
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Revenue (114)Expenses (90)Net assets (219)

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $149k to $112k (−24%).

$104k
$119k
$149k
$149k
$112k
$226k
$207k
$227k
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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
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$9k
’17
$14k
’18
$27k
’19
$1k
’20
−$37k
’21
$50k
’23
−$17k
’24
$20k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $250 → $13k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 Lawton Alternative School PTA’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

Lawton Alternative School PTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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

84% 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 Lawton Alternative School PTA.

82%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 63% · 2021 61% · 2022 66% · 2023 97% — 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

84% of Lawton Alternative School PTA'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 $15k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.

CA
FL

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

’17
’20
’21
’22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Lawton Alternative School PTA

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

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Lawton Alternative School PTA?
Lawton Alternative School PTA (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,099 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($79,527). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Lawton Alternative School PTA have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $97,099 in grants to Lawton Alternative School PTA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Lawton Alternative School PTA?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $79,527 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Lawton Alternative School PTA 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