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BLUESTEM MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BLUESTEM MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Nebraska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $854 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($854). 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
$184k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$854
Net assets
$8k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Bluestem Montessori Elementary School does

Mission

The organizations mission is to provide an education designed to foster creativity, independence and ingenuity by providing a child-centric learning environment, hands-on activities, and interation with the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide a child-centric education and learning environment for pre-school through 6th grade children.

    $244,014 spent$174,933 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $244,014.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($85k) Expenses 100 ($101k) Net assets -196 ($-24059)2020 Revenue 137 ($117k) Expenses 92 ($93k) Net assets -2 ($-203)2021 Revenue 102 ($87k) Expenses 74 ($75k) Net assets 100 ($12k)2022 Revenue 205 ($174k) Expenses 131 ($133k) Net assets 437 ($54k)2023 Revenue 273 ($232k) Expenses 192 ($194k) Net assets 746 ($92k)2024 Revenue 231 ($196k) Expenses 217 ($219k) Net assets 558 ($69k)2025 Revenue 216 ($184k) Expenses 241 ($244k) Net assets 68 ($8k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (216)Expenses (241)Net assets (68)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $87k to $28k (−68%).

$13k
$22k
$32k
$72k
$110k
$87k
$28k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

5% of BLUESTEM MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$16k
’19
$24k
’20
$13k
’21
$41k
’22
$38k
’23
−$23k
’24
−$60k
’25
1.4
months of
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.

202320242025
Listed756
Joined·+0+2
No longer listed·21
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $145 → $204.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

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 BLUESTEM MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL’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 BLUESTEM MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL'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. $854 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BLUESTEM MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−33% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like BLUESTEM MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds BLUESTEM MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BLUESTEM MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Nebraska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $854 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($854). 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 BLUESTEM MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $854 in grants to BLUESTEM MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BLUESTEM MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $854 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BLUESTEM MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 2019–2025), 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