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PALO ALTO HIGH SCHOOL FIERY ARTS BOOSTER CLUB

PALO ALTO HIGH SCHOOL FIERY ARTS BOOSTER CLUB (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,631 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$17k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$22k
Net assets
$17k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Palo Alto High School Fiery Arts Booster Club does

Mission

The primary purpose of the organization is to financially support the glass blowing/sculpture art program for the public high school (palo alto high school).

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. 1) direct purchase of classroom materials (glass, clay and color), maintenance of furnaces and equipment expenses for the high school sculpture classes

    $4,787 spent
    37% of program spending
  2. 2) payment to palo alto high school for program expenses

    $1,000 spent
    8% of program spending
  3. 3) payment to independent glass contractors to teach glass blowing to the public and students

    $6,116 spent
    47% of program spending
  4. 4) insurance

    $1,150 spent
    9% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $13,053.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($75k) Expenses 100 ($71k) Net assets 100 ($30k)2023 Revenue 117 ($88k) Expenses 137 ($97k) Net assets 68 ($20k)2024 Revenue 116 ($87k) Expenses 133 ($95k) Net assets 43 ($13k)2025 Revenue 23 ($17k) Expenses 18 ($13k) Net assets 57 ($17k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (23)Expenses (18)Net assets (57)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $30k to $20k (−32%).

$30k
$20k
$13k
$17k
2022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

19% of PALO ALTO HIGH SCHOOL FIERY ARTS BOOSTER CLUB’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’22
−$9k
’23
−$7k
’24
$4k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $4k → $48.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 PALO ALTO HIGH SCHOOL FIERY ARTS BOOSTER CLUB’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

PALO ALTO HIGH SCHOOL FIERY ARTS BOOSTER CLUB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 PALO ALTO HIGH SCHOOL FIERY ARTS BOOSTER CLUB.

48%
largest funder
99%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 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

82% of PALO ALTO HIGH SCHOOL FIERY ARTS BOOSTER CLUB'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 $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.

WA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Against its field

PALO ALTO HIGH SCHOOL FIERY ARTS BOOSTER CLUB runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin24% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−39% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds PALO ALTO HIGH SCHOOL FIERY ARTS BOOSTER CLUB?
PALO ALTO HIGH SCHOOL FIERY ARTS BOOSTER CLUB (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,631 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PALO ALTO HIGH SCHOOL FIERY ARTS BOOSTER CLUB have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $21,631 in grants to PALO ALTO HIGH SCHOOL FIERY ARTS BOOSTER CLUB, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PALO ALTO HIGH SCHOOL FIERY ARTS BOOSTER CLUB?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PALO ALTO HIGH SCHOOL FIERY ARTS BOOSTER CLUB 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 2022–2025), 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