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WAYLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION INC

WAYLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,288 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($12,243). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$268k
Revenue FY2023
10
Funders on record
$17k
Grants received
$395k
Net assets
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

WAYLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION INC's revenue grew 18% between 2017 and 2023.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve3.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,630 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023

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

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($228k) Expenses 100 ($234k) Net assets 100 ($305k)2018 Revenue 110 ($250k) Expenses 102 ($239k) Net assets 107 ($327k)2019 Revenue 118 ($269k) Expenses 106 ($248k) Net assets 113 ($344k)2020 Revenue 95 ($217k) Expenses 86 ($202k) Net assets 126 ($385k)2021 Revenue 67 ($152k) Expenses 59 ($139k) Net assets 143 ($437k)2022 Revenue 112 ($255k) Expenses 93 ($218k) Net assets 129 ($393k)2023 Revenue 118 ($268k) Expenses 111 ($259k) Net assets 129 ($395k)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (118)Expenses (111)Net assets (129)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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2020
2021
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2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

90% of WAYLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,851 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
17
$11k
18
$21k
19
$15k
20
$13k
21
$37k
22
$8k
23
3.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $400 → $1k.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)84% 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 WAYLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION INC’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

WAYLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

84% 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 WAYLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION INC.

71%
largest funder
89%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2019 84% · 2020 59% · 2021 77% · 2022 86% · 2023 41%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

17% of WAYLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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

84% of WAYLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION INC'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
NC

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

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 WAYLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION INC

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 Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

91%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WAYLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION INC: 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 WAYLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION INC?
WAYLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,288 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($12,243). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WAYLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $17,288 in grants to WAYLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WAYLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION INC?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,243 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WAYLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION INC 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 10funders 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