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FOLLOW THE CHILD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC

FOLLOW THE CHILD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $228,689 to it, the largest being AMG CHARITABLE GIFT FOUNDATION ($67,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$3.2M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$229k
Net assets
$2.5M
6/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Follow the Child Montessori School Inc does

Mission

Our community empowers children to realize their unique human potential through a curriculum designed to foster independence, responsibility, and self-motivation. We nurture a love of learning and practice mutual respect, preparing our students to become compassionate, creative thinkers who thrive in a changing world.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Education of approximately 203 students between the ages of 18 months through 6th grade in a montessori method classroom.

    $1,480,698 spent$2,907,822 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,480,698.

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 ($2.2M) Expenses 100 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2018 Revenue 104 ($2.3M) Expenses 106 ($2.1M) Net assets 111 ($1.9M)2019 Revenue 111 ($2.5M) Expenses 114 ($2.3M) Net assets 123 ($2.1M)2020 Revenue 113 ($2.5M) Expenses 129 ($2.6M) Net assets 120 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 109 ($2.4M) Expenses 114 ($2.3M) Net assets 128 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 108 ($2.4M) Expenses 116 ($2.3M) Net assets 133 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 126 ($2.8M) Expenses 143 ($2.9M) Net assets 130 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 135 ($3.0M) Expenses 143 ($2.9M) Net assets 137 ($2.4M)2025 Revenue 142 ($3.2M) Expenses 149 ($3.0M) Net assets 147 ($2.5M)
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Revenue (142)Expenses (149)Net assets (147)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 $6.8M to $8.1M (+18%).

$6.3M
$6.3M
$6.3M
$6.4M
$6.8M
$8.1M
$7.9M
$8.0M
$8.5M
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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

3% of FOLLOW THE CHILD MONTESSORI SCHOOL 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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$225k
’17
$198k
’18
$193k
’19
−$52k
’20
$146k
’21
$76k
’22
−$45k
’23
$125k
’24
$166k
’25
14
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

Niral Patel

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed161718151515151414
Joined·+4+4+3+5+8+2+3+4
No longer listed·33658244
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $11k → $66k.

9 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FOLLOW THE CHILD MONTESSORI SCHOOL 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

FOLLOW THE CHILD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 FOLLOW THE CHILD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC.

29%
largest funder
76%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 91% · 2019 67% · 2020 95% · 2021 60% · 2022 40% · 2023 55% — 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of FOLLOW THE CHILD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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

100% of FOLLOW THE CHILD MONTESSORI SCHOOL 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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from North Carolina funders.

NC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $228k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

FOLLOW THE CHILD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve14.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

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

Organizations like FOLLOW THE CHILD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC

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In North Carolina

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

49% of spending goes to programs.

Program 49%Management 51%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Educational Journeys Inc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds FOLLOW THE CHILD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC?
FOLLOW THE CHILD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $228,689 to it, the largest being AMG CHARITABLE GIFT FOUNDATION ($67,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FOLLOW THE CHILD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $228,689 in grants to FOLLOW THE CHILD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FOLLOW THE CHILD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC?
AMG CHARITABLE GIFT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $67,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOLLOW THE CHILD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 10 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