Illinois · Nonprofit
Red Oak Elementary School PTO
Red Oak Elementary School PTO (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,054 to it, the largest being Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund ($20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Red Oak Elementary School PTO has grown faster than half of the 16,609 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,609 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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.
- The Lake County Community Foundationlocal
- William M Cage Library Trustportfolio match
- Cooking Autism Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
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.
69% of Red Oak Elementary School PTO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $37 → $11k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 Red Oak Elementary School PTO’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
Red Oak Elementary School PTO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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
95% 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 Red Oak Elementary School PTO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 89% · 2022 100% · 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
95% of Red Oak Elementary School PTO'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 Illinois, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k 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.
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.
- The Lake County Community FoundationlocalIL · funds 89 organizations near you
- William M Cage Library Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cooking Autism Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance for Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Congress of Parents & Teachersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Help the Charityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fanangel Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Education Minnesotaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Education Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Forum Credit Union Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Richard Siegel Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 Red Oak Elementary School PTO
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Red Oak Elementary School PTO: 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 Red Oak Elementary School PTO?
- Red Oak Elementary School PTO (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,054 to it, the largest being Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund ($20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Red Oak Elementary School PTO have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $32,054 in grants to Red Oak Elementary School PTO, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Red Oak Elementary School PTO?
- Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Red Oak Elementary School PTO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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