{"id":320110,"date":"2026-08-13T05:24:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320110\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T05:24:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:24:34","slug":"tribeca-citizen-the-fundraising-power-of-local-ptas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320110\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribeca Citizen | The fundraising power of local PTAs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week I reposted a story from The Broadsheet<\/a> about local schools\u2019 PTAs\u2019 ability to fundraise (conclusion: they rock). But in the days afterwards, I was sent corrections from PTA presidents at two different schools, so I thought it was worth correcting the record here.<\/p>\n

Chalkbeat<\/a>, the nonprofit news organization that covers education, published a list of all the PTAs in the city and the amount they raised in fiscal year 2025; local schools do it better by tens of thousands of dollars than just about anywhere else in the city. But the Chalkbeat numbers were also wildly off, against what is reported on the PTAs\u2019 990 tax forms (I checked them on Candid.) For instance, the chart said Peck Slip School PTA raised $52,511 when in fact they raised nearly $200,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf the money PTAs raised last year, the top 30 schools, or just 2.5%, raised nearly half of the total amount of the 1,240 schools included in the recently released Education Department data for the 2024-25 school year\u201d Chalkbeat wrote. \u201cMeanwhile, roughly 390 PTAs \u2014 about a third of the schools \u2014 reported raising no money last year, suggesting their parent-teacher associations are inactive or struggling.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The story goes on: \u201cPTAs in Manhattan\u2019s District 2 [that\u2019s us], which includes such affluent areas as the Upper East Side, Greenwich Village, and TriBeCa, brought in the most money, with nearly $18 million in total income. That was 600 times greater than what PTAs raised in District 23, which spans Brooklyn\u2019s high-poverty neighborhoods of Ocean Hill\/Brownsville. PTAs in District 23, which is also one of the city\u2019s smallest districts, brought in about $29,000.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, to the numbers, from highest to lowest for assets reported in Fiscal Year 2025, which ended on June 30, 2025.<\/p>\n

PS 150 Parent Teacher Association
Total assets: $705,343
Total revenue: $625,292<\/p>\n

PS 234 Parents and Teachers Association
Total assets: $786,637
Total revenue: $622,284<\/p>\n

PS 89 Parents and Teachers Association
Total assets: $620,280
Total revenue: $324,705<\/p>\n

PS\/IS 276 Battery Park City School PTA
Total assets: $618,288
Total revenue: $390,321<\/p>\n

Spruce Street School \/ PS397 PTA
Total assets: $419,393
Total revenue: $332,696<\/p>\n

Peck Slip School Parent Teachers Association Inc
Total assets: $174,181
Total revenue: $199,866<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week I reposted a story from The Broadsheet about local schools\u2019 PTAs\u2019 ability to fundraise (conclusion: they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-320110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}