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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.

$99k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$29k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$470k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $91k
$14,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$883k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE OF MONTESSORI STUDIES: $29k → 11%MONTESSORI CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $23k → 14%MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF SAN DIEGO: $13k → 11%MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF NORTH TEXAS: $14k → 14%MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF MILWAUKEE: $13k → 17%MONTESSORI NORTHWEST: $22k → 12%MONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER NORTHEAST: $31k → 11%MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF ATLANTA: $7k → 14%THE MONTESSORI INSTITUTE: $16k → 12%WASHINGTON MONTESSORI INSTITUTE: $14k → 11%LOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $11k → 19%SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE OF MONTESSORI STUDIES: $22k → 11%MONTESSORI CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $20k → 14%MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF NORTH TEXAS: $8k → 14%MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF MILWAUKEE: $5k → 17%MONTESSORI NORTHWEST: $7k → 12%MONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER NORTHEAST: $17k → 11%THE MONTESSORI INSTITUTE: $13k → 12%WASHINGTON MONTESSORI INSTITUTE: $13k → 11%SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE OF MONTESSORI STUDIES: $16k → 11%MONTESSORI CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $5k → 14%MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF NORTH TEXAS: $15k → 14%MONTESSORI NORTHWEST - OR: $22k → 12%MONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER NORTHEAST: $8k → 11%THE MONTESSORI INSTITUTE: $6k → 12%WASHINGTON MONTESSORI INSTITUTE: $10k → 11%SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE OF MONTESSORI STUDIES: $15k → 11%MONTESSORI CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $5k → 14%MONTESSORI NORTHWEST - OR: $18k → 12%MONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER NORTHEAST (CREC): $8k → 11%SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE OF MONTESSORI STUDIES: $9k → 11%MONTESSORI NORTHWEST - OR: $9k → 12%MONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER NORTHEAST (CREC): $6k → 11%MONTESSORI NORTHWEST - OR: $8k → 12%MONTESSORI NORTHWEST - OR: $7k → 12%MONTESSORI NORTHWEST - OR: $7k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
OR
CT
CA
CO
MD
AZ
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$426k · 9 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$426k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+22%

Still filing today

78%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SI
    SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE OF MONTESSORI STUDIES
    5× · 2020–2025 · $92k · revenue +16%
  • MT
    MONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $52k · revenue +51%
  • WM
    Washington Montessori Institute
    3× · 2021–2025 · $37k · revenue +155%

Funded once

  • MI
    MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue -86%
  • LU
    Loyola University Maryland Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +22%
  • MI
    MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF ATLANTA
    one grant, 2018 · $7k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Maria Montesoria School Inc

Childreneducationelementaryschhool

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2
Adrian Dominican Montessori Teacher Education Institute

Training and education of montessori teachers.

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3
Northwest Montessori School

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…

Education
4
Urban Montessori Institute of Saint Louis

pre-school education

Education
5
Children's Workshop

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.

Education
6
Sullivan Montessori Inc

Preschool for children ages 18 months and up. Provide a well rounded program including a variety of classes such as cooking, art and yoga.

Education
7
Montessori Academy

Montessori academy is a not-for-profit, educational institution serving children preschoool through eighth grade.

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8
Montessori School of Washington

Provide innovative instructions to preschool children.

Education
9
The Montessori School

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…

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10
Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education Inc

The montessori accreditation council for teacher education is the international standard-setting and accrediting body for montessori teacher education.

Education
11
Michigan Montessori Intenationale Inc

Children will discover their unique potential by living the Montessori lifestyle hand in hand with parents and staff.

Education
12
American Montessori Center Inc

Improving and expanding montessori education through teacher training and development, consulting, and montessori program management.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montessori Northwest; 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.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Montessori Northwest: $98,930 · EducationMontessori NorthwestSOUTHWEST INSTITUTE OF MONTESSORI STUDIES: $91,820 · EducationSOUTHWEST INSTITUTE OF MONTESSORI STUDIESMONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC: $52,420 · EducationMONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER OF MINNESOTA INCWashington Montessori Institute: $36,930 · EducationWashington Montessori InstituteTHE MONTESSORI INSTITUTE: $34,942 · EducationTHE MONTESSORI INSTITUTEMONTESSORI TRAINING RESEARCH CENTER DALLAS: $22,042 · EducationMONTESSORI TRAINING RESEARCH CENTER DALLASCAPITOL REGION EDUCATION COUNCILFOUNDATION INC: $14,100 · EducationMONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF SAN DIEGO: $12,870 · EducationCAPITOL REGION EDUCATION COUNCIL: $56,352 · OtherCAPITOL REGION EDUCATION …MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $18,100 · OtherMONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF M…MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF NORTH TEXAS: $13,500 · OtherMONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF N…Loyola University Maryland Inc: $11,250 · OtherLoyola University Marylan…MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF ATLANTA: $6,517 · OtherMONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF A…
Education$364,054Other$105,719

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMontessori Northwest: $98,930 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST INSTITUTE OF MONTESSORI STUDIES: $91,820 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetMONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC: $52,420 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWashington Montessori Institute: $36,930 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetTHE MONTESSORI INSTITUTE: $34,942 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetMONTESSORI TRAINING RESEARCH CENTER DALLAS: $22,042 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $18,100 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCAPITOL REGION EDUCATION COUNCILFOUNDATION INC: $14,100 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF SAN DIEGO: $12,870 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLoyola University Maryland Inc: $11,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mes Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mes Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Mes Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Mes Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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