Arizona · Nonprofit
ACORN MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL INC
ACORN MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL INC (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $904 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($904). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
ACORN MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Yavapai County Inclocal
- Hiawatha Education Foundationportfolio match
- Arizona Tuition Connection Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 96% · 2018 96% · 2019 96% · 2020 97% · 2021 89% · 2022 98% · 2023 97% · 2024 97% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of ACORN MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $209 → $184.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ACORN MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of ACORN MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $904 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- United Way of Yavapai County InclocalAZ · funds 33 organizations near you
- Hiawatha Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arizona Tuition Connection Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Musical Instrument Museumportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- A for Arizonaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arizona Leadership Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Yavapai Community Hospital Association Dba Yavapai Regional Medical CenterlocalAZ · funds 23 organizations near you
- The Wildflower Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arizona Strutportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Building Hope Impact Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Toshiba America Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Henkels Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding ACORN MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $211k on record.
- Department of Education$211k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ACORN MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Acorn Christian Montessori School · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACORN MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ACORN MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL INC?
- ACORN MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL INC (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $904 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($904). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ACORN MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $904 in grants to ACORN MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACORN MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $904 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACORN MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing