Idaho · Nonprofit
Panhandle Alliance for Education
Panhandle Alliance for Education (Idaho) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,604,447 to it, the largest being IDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($921,159). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $914k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Panhandle Alliance for Education does
Mission
To promote excellence in education and provide broad-based community support for the Lake Pend Oreille School District. As an independent organization, we will create and sustain an endowment to provide resources in support of effective teaching, learning and school management.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
District-wide Strategic Programs are collaborative efforts between the Lake Pend Oreille School District (LPOSD) and Panhandle Alliance for Education (PAFE) to address specific district needs. Program requests are submitted by the LPOSD Superintendent and reviewed by the PAFE Executive Committee. To qualify as a strategic program, initiatives must align with the districts strategic plan and PAFEs mission, include measurable performance goals, and have clear methods for evaluating progress. Preference is given to programs that are innovative, research-based, and have a long-term, positive impact on students, teachers, and administrators. Additionally, these programs should improve student outcomes, foster partnerships between LPOSD and PAFE, and not duplicate existing taxpayer-supported services. PAFE funded a total of $172,095 toward district-wide strategic initiatives for 2024-2025. Strategic Initiatives ($132,095) included: Proactive School Safety/Campus Security Officer $65,000; Community Relations Liasison for LPOSD (part-time) Year 3 $49,000; Behavior Support Teams & Training (Year 1 at SMS)/Year 3 at elementary schools) $18,095. Residential Carpentry & Pre-apprenticeship…
$237,340 spentof which $172,095 as grants$20,000 earned by the program37% of program spendingCommunity Education and Awareness. The Panhandle Alliance for Education created this program to help inform our local residents about important information regarding education in our community. The program includes both subscription services to a quarterly newsletter, social media postings and a website blog. In addition, PAFE communications are directed to the business community who have a vested interest in knowledge about the Lake Pend Oreille School District, the opportunities that are made available to graduating seniors, and an understanding of the districts performace compared to state and national statistics. The program includes informing the public about school funding and the use of PAFEs fundraising assets to support effective teaching, learning, and school management. Panhandle Alliance for Education also contributed $169,978 in fiscal 2024-2025 toward endowment funds held by the Idaho Community Foundation and the Innovia Foundation for perpetual funding of the operating grants for the Lake Pend Oreille School District.
$184,977 spent29% of program spendingPanhandle Alliance for Education (PAFE) awards Teacher Grants annually to educators who compete for available funding based on criteria such as innovation, collaboration, educational impact, and a cost-benefit analysis. Funded projects include classroom technology, lab and safety equipment, musical instruments, robotics, and math and book clubs. In this fiscal year, 39 teacher grants were awarded, totaling $109,693.32. In the fiscal year 2024-2025, PAFE also provided $40,000 for an Art Room Project at the Sandpoint High School. This project was funded in the prior year by a private donor.
$172,430 spentof which $147,693 as grants$40,000 earned by the program27% of program spendingPAFEs Early Childhood Literacy Program includes three key initiatives: Born to Read, READY for Kindergarten, and Ready to Read. Born to Read Program includes welcome baby kit distribution, containing reading materials and information on local resources, distributed to parents of newborns visiting pediatricians at Kaniksu Health Community Services and/or Family Health Center. Approximately 345 kits were distributed in the 2024-2025 fiscal year. READY for Kindegarten workshops provide parents, grandparents and caregivers of children aged from birth to five with tools and knowledge to prepare their children for school. Since its inception in 2008, 90% of program graduates have tested at or above Kindergarten readiness levels. Over 300 workshops were completed in the 2024-2025 school year. Ready to Read, launched as a PAFE program in September 2022, provides every 1st grader in the Lake Pend Oreille School District with a stuffed puppy reading buddy to motivate year-round reading. LPOSD schools consistently outperform state
$39,529 spent$2,200 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $634,276.
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. 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 2017 to 2018, from $499k to $4.0M (+705%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
103% of Panhandle Alliance for Education’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. 5 of the last 9 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $152k → $255k.
10 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 Panhandle Alliance for Education’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
Panhandle Alliance for Education leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 Panhandle Alliance for Education.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 92% · 2019 67% · 2020 70% · 2021 62% · 2022 66% · 2023 63% — 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.
How long its funders stay
45% of Panhandle Alliance for Education's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
93% of Panhandle Alliance for Education'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 $115k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from funders outside Idaho, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Panhandle Alliance for Education runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Panhandle Alliance for Education
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 Idaho
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Panhandle Alliance for Education?
- Panhandle Alliance for Education (Idaho) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,604,447 to it, the largest being IDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($921,159). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Panhandle Alliance for Education have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,604,447 in grants to Panhandle Alliance for Education, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Panhandle Alliance for Education?
- IDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $921,159 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Panhandle Alliance for Education find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Idaho. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 23 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