New York · Nonprofit
CATSKILL MONTESSORI SCHOOL
CATSKILL MONTESSORI SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,991 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $79k
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Catskill Montessori School does
Mission
Catskill Montessori School's mission is to nurture students' character, compassion, respect and curiosity; to cultivate their means to learn, to invent, and participate fully and joyfully in life independently and collaboratively; to sustain a quality montessori holistic classroom environment within a farm-based learning community; to encourage a deep sense of interdependence and responsibility as caring, global citizens and stewards of the earth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Early childhood will serve children age three through six. Students will begin their day with a two-hour work period, during which they will work independently or in small groups on subjects such as practical life skills, sensory exploration, language, mathematics and cultural studies. Students will also have daily access to art and music. Following the first work period, students will transition to circle time, lunch, and outdoor time. The afternoon will consist of a second work period and spanish language class.
$869,662 spent$817,059 earned by the program48% of program spendingElementary will serve children age six through twelve. Students will begin their day with a three-hour work period, during which they will work independently or in small groups on subjects such as math, geometry, geography, botany, zoology, world cultures, history, biology, english language arts, physical education, fine arts, hand work and crafts, music, practical life skills, health skills, history, farming, and environmental sciences. Following this work period, students will transition to lunch and outdoor time. The afternoon will include a second work period and specials, such as spanish, music, art/handwork, physical education, and farming/gardening.
$737,300 spent$1,391,960 earned by the program40% of program spendingToddler will serve children from 18 months to 3 years. This program is an introduction to montessori for a short period of time every day monday through friday (less than 3 hours). During this time they will have a dedicated work period, snack, and outside play/exploration. Art, music, foreign language, practical life, math, sensory, language, and cultural are all areas explored during the regular work cycle.
$158,775 spent$212,079 earned by the program9% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$61,382 spent$35,273 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,827,119.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $3.2M to $3.8M (+17%).
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: 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of CATSKILL MONTESSORI SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
2021 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $3k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 CATSKILL 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
CATSKILL MONTESSORI SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
64% 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 CATSKILL MONTESSORI SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — 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.
Where its funders are
64% of CATSKILL MONTESSORI 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. Of the $29k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CATSKILL MONTESSORI SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 CATSKILL 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CATSKILL 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 CATSKILL MONTESSORI SCHOOL?
- CATSKILL MONTESSORI SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,991 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CATSKILL MONTESSORI SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $78,991 in grants to CATSKILL MONTESSORI SCHOOL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CATSKILL MONTESSORI SCHOOL?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATSKILL MONTESSORI SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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