Finances

Budget and Fundraising Highlights

2023-2024 Fundraising:In the 23-24 school year, the PPC raised $55,723. You can see the specific fundraising efforts and how much they each raised here. The Fun Run was our largest fundraiser, followed by Raise Craze and sponsorships.

2023-2024 Expenses : In the 23-24 school year, the PPC spent $52,890. You can see the line-item expenses here. Our largest expense was school enrichment, which includes field trip cost donations to each grade, supplies for all classrooms, student of the month celebrations, fun-run spirit t-shirts for all students, yearbook price subsidization for all students, Book Fair donations, etc. Staff appreciation was our 2nd largest expense, which includes Teacher Appreciation Week, monthly coffee carts, and midyear classroom supply replacements. Teacher stipends were our third largest expense, and these are reimbursements for classroom supplies up to $250 per teacher.

2024-2025 Fundraising: In the 24-25 school year, we are hoping to raise $65,500 from our fundraising efforts, which will include 6 campaigns: Fun Run, Square 1 Art Sale, Spirit Wear Sales, Marquee Birthday Posts, Sponsorships, and Dine-Out Nights. You can see our fundraising projections here.

2024-2025 Expenses: Our 24-25 school year budget totals $62,175. Our largest expense will be grade level/field trip donations, followed by teacher stipends (reimbursing classroom supply purchases) and school enrichment (resources for all students purchased for the school). You can see the line-item budget here.

Shade Structure: Our students need shade during recess and school events given our hot climate. Families have given generously over the years towards our efforts to raise money to install shade structures. Many parents and school staff have worked on this, and while everyone agrees that this is a priority, various barriers in state law and local policy have prevented these structures from being built. We are working to have BUSD staff visit a meeting with all interested Pioneer parents so that we can collectively work on finding solutions as soon as possible to this problem. We have $30,000 reserved from previous fundraising to put towards this project and are eager to find a way to put that to use. We will continue to keep the community updated on this important project.