Kansas · Nonprofit
DISCOVERY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
DISCOVERY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION (Kansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,648 to it, the largest being KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES ($83,351). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $154k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $84k
- Net assets
- $82k
What Discovery School Association does
Mission
Our mission is to use the montessori philosophy to guide young children in their love of learning in order to facilitate a confident transition to the next level in personal development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Maximum education & development for typical and special needs children 3-5 years of age. Referring eligible children to preschool intervention project and like programs. Supporting parents in their parenting and understanding of early childhood development.
$143,096 spentof which $1,375 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $143,096.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $21k to $58k (+181%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $13k → $17k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 DISCOVERY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION’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
DISCOVERY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 DISCOVERY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of DISCOVERY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $297 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.
Organizations like DISCOVERY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DISCOVERY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: 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 DISCOVERY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION?
- DISCOVERY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION (Kansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,648 to it, the largest being KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES ($83,351). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DISCOVERY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $83,648 in grants to DISCOVERY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISCOVERY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION?
- KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES is the largest funder on record, with $83,351 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISCOVERY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 2 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