Our fundrasiers meet our goals, but that may be because, as a really small school, we set our goals in the extremely realistic range! We hold a two big fundraisers in the fall--a food catalog sale and a fall market, which is a combo of cafe, silent auction, flea market, and bake sale. The latter is by far our biggest money maker, bringing in about $7,000. The rest of the year we toss in a couple of small sales--butterbraids and Little Caeser's usually--because the families want to reorder what they've liked in the past.
We spend our money in four areas of need: teacher appreciation (which includes $$ at Christmas, a luncheon during teacher appreciation week, and a classroom wish list), family care (meals and a card when a family loses a member, gains a member, or is struggling with illness or disability), library (we buy new books), and the playground fund (which, God willing, we'll be DONE WITH after this year!). We stretch our money until it snaps, but seem to get everything accomplished that we feel lead to take on.
Hope this helps!