Texas · Nonprofit
ALIEF MONTESSORI COMMUNITY SCHOOL
ALIEF MONTESSORI COMMUNITY SCHOOL (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being PROJECT LEAD THE WAY INC ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $16M
What Alief Montessori Community School does
Mission
Alief Montessori Community School strives to provide the authentic montessori program for children ages 3-14 (prek-3 to 8th grade) to help them develop the most of their potential so that they can be independent and productive citizens of the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Alief Montessori Community School's student population is at 413 in fy25. The school has obtained a score of 100/100, "superior achievement", on charter financial integrity rating system of texas (first). The state of texas assessment of academic readiness (staar) results show an 86% passing rate for all grades 3-8 in math, reading and science. Alief montessori also achieved the highest determination level on all domains on the 2024 texas education agency (tea) results driven accountability (rda) system.
$3,050,611 spent$222,322 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,050,611.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $14M to $15M (+10%).
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: 2020 94% · 2021 98% · 2022 96% · 2023 95% · 2024 92% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of ALIEF MONTESSORI COMMUNITY SCHOOL’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 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Paula Palamountain
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.
From the IRS filings of ALIEF MONTESSORI COMMUNITY SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 funders by total. 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
ALIEF MONTESSORI COMMUNITY SCHOOL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Against its field
ALIEF MONTESSORI COMMUNITY SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ALIEF MONTESSORI COMMUNITY SCHOOL
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALIEF MONTESSORI COMMUNITY SCHOOL: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALIEF MONTESSORI COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
- ALIEF MONTESSORI COMMUNITY SCHOOL (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being PROJECT LEAD THE WAY INC ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALIEF MONTESSORI COMMUNITY SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $40,000 in grants to ALIEF MONTESSORI COMMUNITY SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALIEF MONTESSORI COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
- PROJECT LEAD THE WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALIEF MONTESSORI COMMUNITY SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing