· Public charity
Mes Fund Inc
To provide financial aid for qualified teacher trainees in the montessori method according to the pedagogical principles and techniques developed by dr.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $91k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE OF MONTESSORI STUDIES | $29,000 |
| MONTESSORI NORTHWEST | $21,800 |
| WASHINGTON MONTESSORI INSTITUTE | $14,000 |
| MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF NORTH TEXAS | $13,500 |
| THE MONTESSORI INSTITUTE | $13,000 |
| MONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER NORTHEAST (CREC) | $6,200 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SISOUTHWEST INSTITUTE OF MONTESSORI STUDIES5× · 2020–2025 · $92k · revenue +16%
- MTMONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC4× · 2017–2024 · $52k · revenue +51%
- WMWashington Montessori Institute3× · 2021–2025 · $37k · revenue +155%
Funded once
- MIMONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF SAN DIEGOone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue -86%
- LULoyola University Maryland Incone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +22%
- MIMONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF ATLANTAone grant, 2018 · $7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Childreneducationelementaryschhool
Training and education of montessori teachers.
To provide an individualized learning environment, based on the principles of Dr. Maria Montessori, that is designed to help students become independent, life-long learners who are academically grounded and socially confident about their…
pre-school education
We are a caring community whose mission is to offer high quality, authentic montessori programs that help children to develop according to their own individual and natural abilities.
Preschool for children ages 18 months and up. Provide a well rounded program including a variety of classes such as cooking, art and yoga.
Montessori academy is a not-for-profit, educational institution serving children preschoool through eighth grade.
Provide innovative instructions to preschool children.
The Montessori School educates children from 18 months-6th grade. Our program is rooted in the educational philosophy of Dr. Maria Montessori faithful to her method. In our caring environment, sustained by freedom peace, the school…
The montessori accreditation council for teacher education is the international standard-setting and accrediting body for montessori teacher education.
Children will discover their unique potential by living the Montessori lifestyle hand in hand with parents and staff.
Improving and expanding montessori education through teacher training and development, consulting, and montessori program management.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montessori Northwest and the most unlike its peers is Capitol Region Education Councilfoundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Montessori Northwest ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE OF MONTESSORI STUDIES ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds Washington Montessori Institute ↗
- Who funds THE MONTESSORI INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI TRAINING RESEARCH CENTER DALLAS ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL REGION EDUCATION COUNCILFOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Loyola University Maryland Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Mes Fund Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Loyola University Maryland Inc — 6% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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