Minnesota · Nonprofit
BLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI SCHOOL
BLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI SCHOOL (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $437,320 to it, the largest being SLAGGIE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $437k
- Net assets
- $-73732
What Bluffview Montessori School does
Mission
To foster and promote learning through outcome based education as well as provide before and after school care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide an atmosphere where children are free to develop their potential academically and emotionally through the curriculum of the montessori educational approach. During fiscal year 2025 the school served 208 students. The school continues to have students on waiting lists; however the grade level and available space do not always coincide.
$3,210,427 spent$215,270 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,210,427.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $945k to $2.7M (+189%).
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 87% · 2018 87% · 2019 87% · 2020 90% · 2021 85% · 2022 87% · 2023 77% · 2024 87% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of BLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI 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. 4 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Henry Schantzen
Executive director
Board chair
Meghan Booth
Chair/teacher
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $32k → $26k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 BLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI 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.
How concentrated its funding is
BLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 91% · 2019 93% · 2020 96% · 2021 39% · 2022 86% · 2023 59% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of BLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
98% of BLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI SCHOOL's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $132k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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
BLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI SCHOOL's revenue grew 44% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI SCHOOL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $236k on record.
- Department of Education$236k
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 BLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Bms Building Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI 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 BLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI SCHOOL?
- BLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI SCHOOL (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $437,320 to it, the largest being SLAGGIE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $437,320 in grants to BLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI SCHOOL, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI SCHOOL?
- SLAGGIE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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