Washington · Nonprofit
BIG LEAF MONTESSORI
BIG LEAF MONTESSORI (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $372 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($372). 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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $415k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $372
- Net assets
- $224k
What Big Leaf Montessori does
Mission
We are an approved private school and childcare center providing montessori education to children of cowlitz county, wa and surrounding areas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
From january to june 2024 our seven exceptional staff served 40 children ages 30 months to 12 years of age, providing quality individualized instruction using the montessori philosophy. Our elementary classroom attended field trips and outings, as well as our outdoor school trip. Our primary classroom finalized requirements for the quality recognition cycle through the washington early achievers program as well as a separate recognition process through the pacific northwest montessori association. We continue to offer extended day and summer care options for working parents. Parents report that their students make learning gains during summer care, rather than learning lost. We participate in both the state of washington and cowlitz tribal subsidy programs to expand accessibility for low-income families in our community. More than 20% of our students rely on these critical programs.
$364,640 spent$357,165 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $364,640.
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 2020 to 2021, from $81k to $183k (+125%).
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 7% · 2021 16% · 2022 7% · 2023 0% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of BIG LEAF MONTESSORI’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $59 → $75.
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 BIG LEAF MONTESSORI’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 BIG LEAF MONTESSORI'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. $372 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.
Against its field
BIG LEAF MONTESSORI runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BIG LEAF MONTESSORI
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIG LEAF MONTESSORI: 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 BIG LEAF MONTESSORI?
- BIG LEAF MONTESSORI (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $372 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($372). 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 BIG LEAF MONTESSORI have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $372 in grants to BIG LEAF MONTESSORI, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG LEAF MONTESSORI?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $372 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG LEAF MONTESSORI find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 1 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