Montana · Nonprofit
GRACE MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC
GRACE MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,360 to it, the largest being THE MARTIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($180,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $246k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Grace Montessori Academy Inc does
Mission
Grace montessori academy is a nurturing, christian, educational community. We teach the child a love for learning and moral principles that will assist the child in developing their knowledge, self-discipline and self-esteem allowing them to realize and achieve their individual potential. We teach the child personal responsibility, tolerance, mentoring others and to contribute their unique gifts to the world. We teach the child to love christ and desire to become his disciple in the world. We teach children from ages 3 to eigth grade. We reach out to all people in the community. We aspire to disciple beyond the children by reaching out as a positive influence to the families. We aspire to be a christian motessori teacher training center. We are an exemplary christian school known for pacesetting excellence with impeccable character as an organization.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Grace montessori academy is a non-denominational christian montessori school dedicated to providing children a hands-on, independent learning environment that instills the love of learning. The academy served 169 students during the fiscal year.our program provides students the tools to acquire inner self-discipline and self-esteem; to achieve academic excellence; to develop a love for life long learning; to learn moral and spiritual principles; and to achieve their highest potential.through the academic and experiential learning process developed by dr. Maria montessori and enhanced by a christian based foundation, students will learn to care for and respect themselves, others, and the environment. The unique cycle of learning provided at grace montessori academy is designed to take advantage of the child's sensitive periods that occur between the ages of three to six and six to nine when children absorb information and profound life understandings from a specifically ordered and enriched environment. Grace montessori academy creates a christian, nurturing atmosphere where each child is treated with sensitivity, honesty and respect. In the early childhood class, the children…
$1,051,705 spent$1,059,984 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,051,705.
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 2024 to 2025, from $4.0M to $3.6M (−12%).
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.
9% of GRACE MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $26k → $29k.
1 of 7 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 GRACE 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
GRACE MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 99% · 2019 77% · 2020 97% · 2021 97% · 2022 72% · 2023 86% — 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.
Where its funders are
GRACE MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $790 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.
Against its field
GRACE MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GRACE 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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GRACE MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC?
- GRACE MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,360 to it, the largest being THE MARTIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($180,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRACE MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $246,360 in grants to GRACE MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRACE MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC?
- THE MARTIN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRACE MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 7 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