South Carolina · Nonprofit
SPEARMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO
SPEARMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,591 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,091). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2021
- $-10675
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $34k
What Spearman Elementary School PTO does
Mission
Spearman Elementary School PTO is a partnership of parents, teachers, and community volunteers who are dedicated to improving and enriching the lives of current and future students and staff at spearman elementary. This support is fulfilled by planning, organizing, and implementing many family and community events which generate resources and community for our school. Our mission is to help ensure that every day, every student is nurtured, encouraged and challenged to learn in a fun and safe environment.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
At the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year, we provided the teachers with 100 each for "start up" money to be used on classroom supplies. The pto also provided school t-shirts for all teachers and staff. We provided emergency bags and supplies for all classrooms to be used in case of emergency. We held many events throughout the year for our students, their families, and the community. These events included: spearman sprint color run, community fall festival, cookies with santa, father-daughter dance. All throughout the school year, the pto organized several luncheons to provide lunch to the teachers and staff.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $27k to $56k (+105%).
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.
100% of SPEARMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $41 → $359.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 SPEARMAN 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
SPEARMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
69% 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 SPEARMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 69% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
69% of SPEARMAN 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 $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state.
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.
Against its field
SPEARMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO has grown faster than three-quarters of the 20,681 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 20,681 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
Organizations like SPEARMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 SPEARMAN 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 SPEARMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO?
- SPEARMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,591 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,091). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SPEARMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,591 in grants to SPEARMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPEARMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,091 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPEARMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2019–2021), and the filings of 2 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