Minnesota · Nonprofit
HAND IN HAND CHRISTIAN MONTESSORI
HAND IN HAND CHRISTIAN MONTESSORI (Minnesota) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,389,573 to it, the largest being VERITAS FOUNDATION ($2,100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $731k
What Hand in Hand Christian Montessori does
Mission
Hand in hand's mission is to educate preschoolers, homeschoolers, and private students by providing a consistent, hands-on christian montessori classroom with specialists and trained teachers who can partner with parents. See schedule o for remainder of mission.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Hand in hand chrstian montessori educates and nurtures children and supports families enrolled from from preschool to 12th grade. Over 500 students were enrolled for the 2023-2024 school year. Hand in hand chrstian montessori provides montessori childcare for infants and toddlers at the central and wayzata campuses hand in hand stands unique among its competition as it presents individual lessons (instead of group, one-sized fits-all); innovative materials and approaches with best practices implementing at every level; and inspiration themes with traditional, christian, family values. Our collaborative efforts with parents is important when parental-rights and information is becoming scarce in educational settings. Our constructivist approach is among the most sought-after style of learning and our international pegaogy is strong.
$3,817,878 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,817,878.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5.2M to $11M (+106%).
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.
10% of HAND IN HAND CHRISTIAN MONTESSORI’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. 5 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Michelle Thompson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $9k → $126k.
7 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 HAND IN HAND CHRISTIAN 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.
How concentrated its funding is
HAND IN HAND CHRISTIAN MONTESSORI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 98% · 2021 69% · 2022 98% · 2023 84% — 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
33% of HAND IN HAND CHRISTIAN MONTESSORI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.
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
99% of HAND IN HAND CHRISTIAN MONTESSORI's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $207k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
HAND IN HAND CHRISTIAN MONTESSORI has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HAND IN HAND CHRISTIAN 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HAND IN HAND CHRISTIAN 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 HAND IN HAND CHRISTIAN MONTESSORI?
- HAND IN HAND CHRISTIAN MONTESSORI (Minnesota) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,389,573 to it, the largest being VERITAS FOUNDATION ($2,100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HAND IN HAND CHRISTIAN MONTESSORI have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $2,389,573 in grants to HAND IN HAND CHRISTIAN MONTESSORI, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAND IN HAND CHRISTIAN MONTESSORI?
- VERITAS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAND IN HAND CHRISTIAN MONTESSORI find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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