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PTA CALIF CONGRESS OF PARENTS dba PHOEBE APPERSON HEARST ELEMENTARY PTA

PTA CALIF CONGRESS OF PARENTS dba PHOEBE APPERSON HEARST ELEMENTARY PTA (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,582 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($92,432). 4 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
$207k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$109k
Net assets
$317k
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What PTA CALIF CONGRESS OF PARENTS dba PHOEBE APPERSON HEARST ELEMENTARY PTA does

Mission

To provide additional funds to supplement hearst elementary school programs and to promote the welfare of children and youth in home, school, places of worship and throughout the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide additional funds to supplement hearst elementary school programs.

    $138,888 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $138,888.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($169k) Expenses 100 ($108k) Net assets 100 ($126k)2021 Revenue 91 ($154k) Expenses 216 ($233k) Net assets 37 ($47k)2022 Revenue 108 ($182k) Expenses 46 ($50k) Net assets 142 ($179k)2023 Revenue 121 ($205k) Expenses 88 ($95k) Net assets 230 ($289k)2024 Revenue 87 ($147k) Expenses 160 ($173k) Net assets 209 ($263k)2025 Revenue 122 ($207k) Expenses 141 ($153k) Net assets 251 ($317k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (122)Expenses (141)Net assets (251)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 2021 to 2022, from $47k to $179k (+283%).

$126k
$47k
$179k
$289k
$263k
$317k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

11% of PTA CALIF CONGRESS OF PARENTS dba PHOEBE APPERSON HEARST ELEMENTARY PTA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$61k
’20
−$79k
’21
$132k
’22
$111k
’23
−$26k
’24
$54k
’25
25
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.

20202021202220232025
Listed131210127
Joined·+1+4+7·
No longer listed·265·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $175 → $14k.

3 of 5 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 PTA CALIF CONGRESS OF PARENTS dba PHOEBE APPERSON HEARST ELEMENTARY PTA’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

PTA CALIF CONGRESS OF PARENTS dba PHOEBE APPERSON HEARST ELEMENTARY PTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

98% 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 PTA CALIF CONGRESS OF PARENTS dba PHOEBE APPERSON HEARST ELEMENTARY PTA.

85%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 72% · 2019 91% · 2020 96% · 2021 81% · 2022 95% · 2023 95% — 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 PTA CALIF CONGRESS OF PARENTS dba PHOEBE APPERSON HEARST ELEMENTARY PTA'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.

IL
NC

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

’17
’18
’19
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $106k 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

PTA CALIF CONGRESS OF PARENTS dba PHOEBE APPERSON HEARST ELEMENTARY PTA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin26% · top quartile
Months of reserve24.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

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

Organizations like PTA CALIF CONGRESS OF PARENTS dba PHOEBE APPERSON HEARST ELEMENTARY PTA

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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 PTA CALIF CONGRESS OF PARENTS dba PHOEBE APPERSON HEARST ELEMENTARY PTA?
PTA CALIF CONGRESS OF PARENTS dba PHOEBE APPERSON HEARST ELEMENTARY PTA (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,582 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($92,432). 4 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 PTA CALIF CONGRESS OF PARENTS dba PHOEBE APPERSON HEARST ELEMENTARY PTA have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $108,582 in grants to PTA CALIF CONGRESS OF PARENTS dba PHOEBE APPERSON HEARST ELEMENTARY PTA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PTA CALIF CONGRESS OF PARENTS dba PHOEBE APPERSON HEARST ELEMENTARY PTA?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $92,432 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PTA CALIF CONGRESS OF PARENTS dba PHOEBE APPERSON HEARST ELEMENTARY PTA 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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