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SHERMAN ELEMENTARY PTA

SHERMAN ELEMENTARY PTA (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $385,867 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($210,416). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$257k
Revenue FY2025
12
Funders on record
$386k
Grants received
$445k
Net assets
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%

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 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($263k) Expenses 100 ($247k) Net assets 100 ($145k)2018 Revenue 103 ($272k) Expenses 93 ($229k) Net assets 133 ($192k)2019 Revenue 91 ($241k) Expenses 122 ($301k) Net assets 93 ($135k)2020 Revenue 126 ($332k) Expenses 55 ($136k) Net assets 229 ($331k)2021 Revenue 73 ($193k) Expenses 78 ($192k) Net assets 229 ($332k)2022 Revenue 87 ($230k) Expenses 69 ($169k) Net assets 234 ($339k)2023 Revenue 87 ($228k) Expenses 90 ($222k) Net assets 246 ($355k)2024 Revenue 81 ($214k) Expenses 70 ($171k) Net assets 277 ($401k)2025 Revenue 98 ($257k) Expenses 84 ($207k) Net assets 308 ($445k)
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Revenue (98)Expenses (84)Net assets (308)

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

Surplus & reserves

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

$17k
17
$43k
18
$60k
19
$196k
20
$685
21
$60k
22
$6k
23
$43k
24
$50k
25
15
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $25k.

7 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)90% 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 SHERMAN 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

SHERMAN ELEMENTARY PTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

90% 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 SHERMAN ELEMENTARY PTA.

55%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 86% · 2019 50% · 2020 63% · 2021 68% · 2022 64% · 2023 73%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.

How long its funders stay

30% of SHERMAN ELEMENTARY PTA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

90% of SHERMAN 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 $40k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from California funders.

IL
NY
CA
TX

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

19
20
21
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $346k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

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. Your 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 SHERMAN ELEMENTARY PTA

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 California

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 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHERMAN ELEMENTARY PTA: 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 SHERMAN ELEMENTARY PTA?
SHERMAN ELEMENTARY PTA (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $385,867 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($210,416). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SHERMAN ELEMENTARY PTA have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $385,867 in grants to SHERMAN ELEMENTARY PTA, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SHERMAN ELEMENTARY PTA?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $210,416 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SHERMAN 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.

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 12funders 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