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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
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

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

  1. 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 program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,678,570.

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 ($2.4M) Expenses 100 ($2.3M) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2018 Revenue 108 ($2.6M) Expenses 106 ($2.5M) Net assets 111 ($1.7M)2019 Revenue 117 ($2.8M) Expenses 110 ($2.5M) Net assets 129 ($2.0M)2020 Revenue 122 ($2.9M) Expenses 115 ($2.7M) Net assets 147 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 130 ($3.1M) Expenses 107 ($2.5M) Net assets 189 ($3.0M)2022 Revenue 115 ($2.8M) Expenses 111 ($2.6M) Net assets 202 ($3.2M)2023 Revenue 118 ($2.9M) Expenses 135 ($3.1M) Net assets 181 ($2.8M)2024 Revenue 137 ($3.3M) Expenses 143 ($3.3M) Net assets 181 ($2.9M)2025 Revenue 139 ($3.4M) Expenses 147 ($3.4M) Net assets 179 ($2.8M)
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Revenue (139)Expenses (147)Net assets (179)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 2021 to 2022, from $4.3M to $7.3M (+69%).

$3.5M
$3.6M
$3.7M
$4.0M
$4.3M
$7.3M
$6.7M
$6.6M
$6.3M
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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: 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).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$103k
’17
$169k
’18
$283k
’19
$283k
’20
$670k
’21
$203k
’22
−$267k
’23
$9k
’24
−$38k
’25
2.9
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.

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Listed999977777
Joined·+0+1+0+0+0+1+1+0
No longer listed·01020110
03Who funds it

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.

43%
largest funder
89%
top three
~3
effective funders

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.

WI

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

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Wisconsin out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC's revenue grew 39% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

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

Organizations like DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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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?
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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