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PELL CITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC

PELL CITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC (Alabama) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,118 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($2,199). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$205k
Revenue FY2026
2
Funders on record
$3k
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

PELL CITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 104 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin73% · top quartile
Months of reserve92.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 104 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($65k) Expenses 100 ($38k) Net assets 100 ($833k)2022 Revenue 105 ($68k) Expenses 92 ($35k) Net assets 104 ($865k)2023 Revenue 104 ($68k) Expenses 96 ($37k) Net assets 108 ($896k)2024 Revenue 102 ($66k) Expenses 92 ($35k) Net assets 111 ($927k)2025 Revenue 80 ($52k) Expenses 119 ($46k) Net assets 112 ($933k)2026 Revenue 316 ($205k) Expenses 145 ($56k) Net assets 130 ($1.1M)
202120222023202420252026
Revenue (316)Expenses (145)Net assets (130)Peer revenue range

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

17% of PELL CITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,851 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$26k
21
$32k
22
$31k
23
$31k
24
$6k
25
$149k
26
92
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $504 → $818.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
2
2
2
2
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)71% 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 PELL CITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC’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

PELL CITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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

71% 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 PELL CITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC.

71%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 60% · 2021 76% · 2022 81% · 2023 85%growing more concentrated.

“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

71% of PELL CITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC'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 $919 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Alabama funders.

AL

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

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21
22
23
Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like PELL CITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Alabama

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 12%Fundraising 2%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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 PELL CITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds PELL CITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC?
PELL CITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC (Alabama) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,118 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($2,199). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PELL CITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $3,118 in grants to PELL CITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PELL CITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,199 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PELL CITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing