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FOX FLOWER MONTESSORI

FOX FLOWER MONTESSORI (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being THE DREXEL FUND ($45,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$369k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$45k
Net assets
$77k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 99%
01What it does

What Fox Flower Montessori does

Mission

Provide a traditional montessori education based on the philosophy of dr maria montessori for children in first through sixth grade ages 6-12 in asheville nc.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide a traditional montessori education based on the philosophy of dr maria montessori for children in first through sixth grade ages 6-12 in the mountains of asheville north carolina.

    $352,498 spent$315,824 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $352,498.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($46k) Expenses 100 ($27k) Net assets 100 ($19k)2020 Revenue 244 ($111k) Expenses 481 ($128k) Net assets 14 ($3k)2021 Revenue 325 ($148k) Expenses 591 ($157k) Net assets -33 ($-6324)2022 Revenue 639 ($291k) Expenses 845 ($224k) Net assets 319 ($61k)2023 Revenue 810 ($369k) Expenses 1329 ($352k) Net assets 404 ($77k)
20192020202120222023
Revenue (810)Expenses (1329)Net assets (404)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 $90k to $141k (+56%).

$99k
$99k
$90k
$141k
$160k
20192020202120222023
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

14% of FOX FLOWER MONTESSORI’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$19k
’19
−$16k
’20
−$9k
’21
$67k
’22
$16k
’23
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.

20222023
Listed66
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'19
total
The Drexel Fundunclassified
$45k
funders
1

From the IRS filings of FOX FLOWER MONTESSORI’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.

Where its funders are

FOX FLOWER MONTESSORI draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

FOX FLOWER MONTESSORI has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,636 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve2.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)69% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,636 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023

Organizations like FOX FLOWER MONTESSORI

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 North Carolina

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOX FLOWER MONTESSORI: 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 FOX FLOWER MONTESSORI?
FOX FLOWER MONTESSORI (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being THE DREXEL FUND ($45,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FOX FLOWER MONTESSORI have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $45,000 in grants to FOX FLOWER MONTESSORI.
Who is the largest funder of FOX FLOWER MONTESSORI?
THE DREXEL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOX FLOWER MONTESSORI 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 FY2023 (financials across 2019–2023), and the filings of 1 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