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PLEASANT VALLEY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

PLEASANT VALLEY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $552,526 to it, the largest being QUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($466,720). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$185k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$553k
Net assets
$928k
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%
01What it does

What Pleasant Valley Schools Educational Foundation does

Mission

The Pleasant Valley Schools Educational Foundation's mission is to support the ideals of the district by providing supplemental assistance to the students, staff, and programs of the pleasant valley community school district beyond what is provided by regular district resources.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Scholarships were issued to 141 pleasant valley community school district students.

    $186,236 spentof which $170,352 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $186,236.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($138k) Expenses 100 ($116k) Net assets 100 ($520k)2018 Revenue 128 ($177k) Expenses 150 ($174k) Net assets 103 ($538k)2019 Revenue 127 ($175k) Expenses 107 ($123k) Net assets 115 ($600k)2020 Revenue 137 ($189k) Expenses 123 ($143k) Net assets 116 ($603k)2021 Revenue 158 ($219k) Expenses 123 ($143k) Net assets 153 ($797k)2022 Revenue 139 ($193k) Expenses 132 ($153k) Net assets 142 ($739k)2023 Revenue 148 ($204k) Expenses 151 ($175k) Net assets 155 ($808k)2024 Revenue 136 ($188k) Expenses 160 ($186k) Net assets 168 ($876k)2025 Revenue 134 ($185k) Expenses 165 ($191k) Net assets 179 ($928k)
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Revenue (134)Expenses (165)Net assets (179)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 2020 to 2021, from $686k to $852k (+24%).

$552k
$641k
$647k
$686k
$852k
$882k
$882k
$923k
$1.0M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

76% of PLEASANT VALLEY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$22k
’17
$3k
’18
$52k
’19
$46k
’20
$76k
’21
$40k
’22
$29k
’23
$2k
’24
−$6k
’25
17
months of
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.

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Listed343636333027302723
Joined·+7+1+1+1+0+3+8+2
No longer listed·514430116
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $34k → $109k.

5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 PLEASANT VALLEY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. 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

PLEASANT VALLEY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 PLEASANT VALLEY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.

84%
largest funder
97%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 53% · 2020 82% · 2021 97% · 2022 70% · 2023 94% — 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

98% of PLEASANT VALLEY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION'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 $8k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from Iowa funders.

WI
IA

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

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’21
’23
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $544k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

PLEASANT VALLEY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve16.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

23
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds PLEASANT VALLEY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
PLEASANT VALLEY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $552,526 to it, the largest being QUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($466,720). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PLEASANT VALLEY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $552,526 in grants to PLEASANT VALLEY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PLEASANT VALLEY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
QUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $466,720 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PLEASANT VALLEY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 8 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