Tennessee · Nonprofit
LIPSCOMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO
LIPSCOMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,697 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,097). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $138k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $129k
What Lipscomb Elementary School PTO does
Mission
Promote and coordinate efforts to support lipscomb elementary school's mission of cultivating the ability, intellect and character of each student.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Support staff and educational operations by providing classroom supplies to teachers from kindergarten to fifth grade as well as support personnel. Provide curriculum enhancements to each grade. Provide supplies to non-core classes including, but not limited to art, guidance, gym, keyboarding, library and music.
$51,711 spent56% of program spendingSupport school operations including, but not limited to, guidance programs, hospitality, stem programs, and "welcome to kindergarten" events. In addition, we support various social events to engage parents and families.
$14,763 spent16% of program spendingProvide wishlist items to the school including new technology (projection screens,smart boards, furniture, etc.), grounds maintenance, and other items as needed.
$18,204 spent20% of program spendingSupport yearbook, public relations, room parent operations including class programs and back your bear activities.
$8,216 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $92,894.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $89k to $129k (+46%).
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 LIPSCOMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $21 → $349.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 LIPSCOMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 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
LIPSCOMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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
65% 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 LIPSCOMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 51% · 2022 59% · 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
65% of LIPSCOMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 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 $600 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k 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.
Against its field
LIPSCOMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LIPSCOMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 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 Tennessee
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIPSCOMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 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 LIPSCOMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO?
- LIPSCOMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,697 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,097). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIPSCOMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,697 in grants to LIPSCOMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIPSCOMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,097 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIPSCOMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2020–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing