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COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOLS INC

COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOLS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,116 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($47,662). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$3.4M
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$81k
Net assets
$4.4M
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Countryside Montessori Schools Inc does

Mission

Operation of a school - an education must assist students in developing the qualities of respect, responsibility and resourcefulness so they can become great students and also exceptional adults.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization's sole activity is the operation of a school for preschool, elementary, and middle school children. A limited day care is also provided.

    $2,683,089 spent$3,165,938 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,683,089.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.2M) Expenses 100 ($3.3M) Net assets 100 ($3.4M)2018 Revenue 107 ($3.4M) Expenses 103 ($3.4M) Net assets 101 ($3.4M)2019 Revenue 107 ($3.4M) Expenses 108 ($3.5M) Net assets 98 ($3.3M)2020 Revenue 101 ($3.2M) Expenses 100 ($3.3M) Net assets 97 ($3.3M)2021 Revenue 108 ($3.5M) Expenses 95 ($3.1M) Net assets 110 ($3.7M)2022 Revenue 102 ($3.3M) Expenses 101 ($3.3M) Net assets 106 ($3.6M)2023 Revenue 132 ($4.2M) Expenses 111 ($3.6M) Net assets 127 ($4.3M)2024 Revenue 109 ($3.5M) Expenses 116 ($3.8M) Net assets 122 ($4.1M)2025 Revenue 106 ($3.4M) Expenses 100 ($3.3M) Net assets 130 ($4.4M)
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Revenue (106)Expenses (100)Net assets (130)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 2022 to 2023, from $6.4M to $7.1M (+11%).

$7.1M
$6.8M
$6.9M
$6.6M
$6.9M
$6.4M
$7.1M
$6.8M
$6.9M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 24% · 2023 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

5% of COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOLS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$75k
’17
$31k
’18
−$112k
’19
−$59k
’20
$354k
’21
−$37k
’22
$591k
’23
−$315k
’24
$125k
’25
11
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.

Board chair

Allison Shank

Chair and secretary

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed101011101213131313
Joined·+2+1+0+3+1+1+0+2
No longer listed·20110102
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $12k.

4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOLS INC’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

COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOLS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

75% 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 COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOLS INC.

59%
largest funder
80%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 86% · 2021 71% · 2022 73% · 2023 84% — growing more concentrated.

“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

60% of COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOLS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

68% of COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOLS INC'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 $26k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states.

IL
WI
CA
VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOLS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · above the median
Months of reserve10.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 17%Fundraising 1%

Governance

8
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 COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOLS INC?
COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOLS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,116 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($47,662). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOLS INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $81,116 in grants to COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOLS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOLS INC?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $47,662 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOLS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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