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PTA CALIFORNIA JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL ELEMENTARY
PTA CALIFORNIA JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL ELEMENTARY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,379 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,379). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $236k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $164k
What PTA California James Russell Lowell Elementary does
Mission
The mission of the lowell elementary pta is to positively impact the lives of all children and families at the school through programs designed for the enrichment,benefit and motivation of teachers, students and student families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Other programs - field trips - fund the entry fees and bus costs for kindergarten through 5th grade field trips.other programs - supplies - fund the cost of classroom supplies as needed.other programs - after school programs - fund after school supervision & enrichment.
$121,128 spent60% of program spendingLearning garden & art lab
$53,277 spent26% of program spendingProgram - fund the cost of clubs, fairs, carnivals, dances, author nights, meet the masters and other events for all students.
$27,370 spent14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $201,775.
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.
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 $84k to $144k (+72%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $333 → $278.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CALIFORNIA JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL ELEMENTARY’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.
Where its funders are
100% of PTA CALIFORNIA JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL ELEMENTARY'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PTA CALIFORNIA JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL ELEMENTARY: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds PTA CALIFORNIA JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL ELEMENTARY?
- PTA CALIFORNIA JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL ELEMENTARY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,379 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,379). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PTA CALIFORNIA JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL ELEMENTARY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,379 in grants to PTA CALIFORNIA JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL ELEMENTARY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PTA CALIFORNIA JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL ELEMENTARY?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,379 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PTA CALIFORNIA JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL ELEMENTARY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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