California · Nonprofit
Thomas Edison Elementary PTO
Thomas Edison Elementary PTO (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $939 to it, the largest being NEW YORK LIFE FOUNDATION ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $939
- Net assets
- $19k
What Thomas Edison Elementary PTO does
Mission
To enrich the educational exp. At thomas edison school
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Assemblies programs - underwrote the procurement of educational assemblies programs for 350 students. The assemblies programs focused on 1 character building 2 peacemaking 3 math 4 reading 5 science 6 art and 7 family.
$0 spentTeacher student support - provided a reimbursement allowance of up to $250 to each of 17 classroom teachers. This allows the teacher to purchase educational materials technology supplies and other materials to enrich the educational experience for 450 students. Also provided healthy snacks for workshops and star testing as well as incentives for student achievements.
$0 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $22k to $9k (−61%).
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 Thomas Edison Elementary PTO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $500 → $193.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 Thomas Edison Elementary 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
Thomas Edison Elementary PTO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% 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
47% 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 Thomas Edison Elementary PTO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
Thomas Edison Elementary PTO draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $439 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
Thomas Edison Elementary PTO runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Thomas Edison Elementary 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
35%
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 Thomas Edison Elementary 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 Thomas Edison Elementary PTO?
- Thomas Edison Elementary PTO (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $939 to it, the largest being NEW YORK LIFE FOUNDATION ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Thomas Edison Elementary PTO have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $939 in grants to Thomas Edison Elementary PTO, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Thomas Edison Elementary PTO?
- NEW YORK LIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Thomas Edison Elementary PTO 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 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