Wisconsin · Nonprofit
DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC
DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,296 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($7,823). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $18k
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Downtown Montessori Academy Inc does
Mission
To create a montessori environment where the child's early experiences with learning will help him or her to become a self-confident, competent, cooperative adult.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Downtown montessori academy is a small, diverse, community-focused montessori elementary school that has been serving families since 1976. As a city of milwaukee charter school, students who reach age 4 by september 1 can attend our school with tuition provided by public funds. Our mission is to provide a montessori education to a diverse group of k3-8th grade students. We are a title I school of recognition, and we have grown to serve nearly 300 children and families, providing an intimate small-school environment, upgraded facilities, and an award-winning outdoor classroom and play space. We continually engage with the broader community to leverage resources to provide a rich learning environment for our students.
$2,678,570 spent$616,638 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,678,570.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.3M to $7.3M (+69%).
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 83% · 2018 82% · 2019 83% · 2020 87% · 2021 94% · 2022 86% · 2023 82% · 2024 82% · 2025 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC’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. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $351.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI ACADEMY 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
DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 54% · 2022 50% · 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
54% of DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI ACADEMY 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 $9k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC's revenue grew 39% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% 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 DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC: 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 DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC?
- DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,296 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($7,823). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $18,296 in grants to DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,823 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 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