Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THOREAU SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER GROUP
THOREAU SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER GROUP (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $228,533 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($150,931). 1 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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $451k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $229k
- Net assets
- $117k
What Thoreau School Parent Teacher Group does
Mission
The Thoreau School Parent Teacher Group (ptg) works to enhance the educational, cultural, and social experience of all thoreau elementary school students. The ptg provides a forum for collaboration among parents, teachers, staff, and administrators, supports programs and activities that benefit students and families, and helps strengthen the connection between the school and the wider community. The organization promotes understanding of school policies and initiatives, fosters a positive school spirit through the thoreau c.a.r.e.s. Values, which stand for cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, and self-control, and serves as a liaison between the parent community and the school system.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Children's programs include a wide range of enrichment opportunities coordinated by the ptg's children's programming committee. Offerings include visiting authors, science and cultural assemblies, arts and music workshops, performances, and other hands-on experiences that extend classroom learning. Programs are designed to complement the academic curriculum and promote social, creative, and intellectual development. Each grade-level and special subject classroom (art, music, library, physical education, and spanish) receives a predetermined stipend each year. Support staff, including classroom aides, special education staff, and therapists, are also eligible for stipends to support their work with students. Stipends are intended for classroom supplies, instructional materials, and enhancements not provided by the school budget that directly benefit students. Staff submit reimbursement requests with supporting receipts or invoices to the ptg treasurer, who reviews each request for appropriateness and budget availability before issuing reimbursement.
$46,740 spent11% of program spendingDuring fiscal year 2025, the ptg accepted contributions for a new playground at thoreau elementary school. The funds collected were transferred to the concord public schools district for a capital project benefitting the students. This construction project was a one-time event. Ptg itself did not create, nor does it hold, any assets, depreciable or otherwise, as the fund were transferred to the district for the restricted use of the construction of the playground.
$383,359 spent89% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $430,099.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $135k to $88k (−35%).
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.
99% of THOREAU SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER GROUP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $50 → $508.
5 of 9 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 THOREAU SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER GROUP’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
THOREAU SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER GROUP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 THOREAU SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER GROUP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
95% of THOREAU SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER GROUP'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 $12k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $217k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
THOREAU SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER GROUP has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THOREAU SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER GROUP?
- THOREAU SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER GROUP (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $228,533 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($150,931). 1 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 THOREAU SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $228,533 in grants to THOREAU SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER GROUP, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THOREAU SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER GROUP?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $150,931 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THOREAU SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER GROUP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 9 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