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SPIRIT LAKE ELEMENTARY PARTNERS IN EDUCATION-PIE

SPIRIT LAKE ELEMENTARY PARTNERS IN EDUCATION-PIE (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,811 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$40k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$28k
Net assets
$102k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What Spirit Lake Elementary Partners in Education-Pie does

Mission

To support, promote and facilitate educational needs, goals and opportunities for the benefit of the spirit lake elementary schools, a part of the spirit lake school district.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To support, promote and facilitate educational needs, goals and opportunities for the benefit of the spirit lake elementary school.

    $27,742 spentof which $9,196 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $27,742.

02The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($35k) Expenses 100 ($20k) Net assets 100 ($73k)2018 Revenue 116 ($41k) Expenses 157 ($32k) Net assets 113 ($83k)2019 Revenue 67 ($24k) Expenses 202 ($41k) Net assets 89 ($65k)2020 Revenue 177 ($63k) Expenses 84 ($17k) Net assets 149 ($109k)2021 Revenue -35 ($-12441) Expenses 63 ($13k) Net assets 115 ($84k)2023 Revenue 110 ($39k) Expenses 147 ($30k) Net assets 133 ($97k)2024 Revenue 112 ($40k) Expenses 174 ($35k) Net assets 140 ($102k)
2017201820192020202120232024
Revenue (112)Expenses (174)Net assets (140)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 2019 to 2020, from $65k to $109k (+67%).

$73k
$83k
$65k
$109k
$84k
$97k
$102k
2017201820192020202120232024
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of SPIRIT LAKE ELEMENTARY PARTNERS IN EDUCATION-PIE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$15k
’17
$9k
’18
−$17k
’19
$46k
’20
−$25k
’21
$9k
’23
$5k
’24
35
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.

2017201820192020202120232024
Listed10101022110
Joined·+0+0····
No longer listed·00····
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $26k → $437.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 SPIRIT LAKE ELEMENTARY PARTNERS IN EDUCATION-PIE’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

SPIRIT LAKE ELEMENTARY PARTNERS IN EDUCATION-PIE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

92% 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 SPIRIT LAKE ELEMENTARY PARTNERS IN EDUCATION-PIE.

54%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 57% · 2021 60% · 2022 51% · 2023 69% — growing more concentrated.

“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

92% of SPIRIT LAKE ELEMENTARY PARTNERS IN EDUCATION-PIE'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 Iowa, across 1 state.

WI

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k 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

SPIRIT LAKE ELEMENTARY PARTNERS IN EDUCATION-PIE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve34.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
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.

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds SPIRIT LAKE ELEMENTARY PARTNERS IN EDUCATION-PIE?
SPIRIT LAKE ELEMENTARY PARTNERS IN EDUCATION-PIE (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,811 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SPIRIT LAKE ELEMENTARY PARTNERS IN EDUCATION-PIE have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $27,811 in grants to SPIRIT LAKE ELEMENTARY PARTNERS IN EDUCATION-PIE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SPIRIT LAKE ELEMENTARY PARTNERS IN EDUCATION-PIE?
COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPIRIT LAKE ELEMENTARY PARTNERS IN EDUCATION-PIE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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