Texas · Nonprofit
HIGHLAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL
HIGHLAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,446 to it, the largest being FRANCES R DEWING FOUNDATION 7600-XXXXXX15480 ($6,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $242k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $302k
What Highland Montessori School does
Mission
HMS is a Montessori Preschool for children ages 2-6. We are dedicated to Montessori principles, including a multi-age classroom and emotional-social education at a young age. We are dedicated to reaching out to our families, building community, and equal-opportunity for all students. Driven by current tuition revenues, HMS seeks to eventually serve underprivileged families by offering scholarships. HMS provides regular parent-education programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
HMS educates young children based on the principles established by Dr. Maria Montessori. HMS intends for its students to become independent, self-aware children who will excel at future levels of education. To accomplish this, HMS emphasizes a multi-age classroom and emotional-social education, even for our youngest students (2 yrs). We are further dedicated to the families of our students, and to being good stewards in our neighborhood and surrounding community. Our teachers' skills are not limited to the classroom. The School Director also conducts Parent Workshops and Parent Conferences. All activities during the school day are provided at no charge above the monthly tuition. Working within a system that provides a low student-teacher ratio, our teachers are dedicated to exploring ways of teaching in order to better serve these goals. 2024-25 was the school's twelfth year in operation.
$265,449 spent$237,105 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $265,449.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $237k to $356k (+50%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 16% · 2022 19% · 2023 32% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of HIGHLAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Richard Weller
Executive Director and Property Owner
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $77.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 HIGHLAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL’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
HIGHLAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
HIGHLAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $446 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
HIGHLAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL is better cushioned than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HIGHLAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HIGHLAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL?
- HIGHLAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,446 to it, the largest being FRANCES R DEWING FOUNDATION 7600-XXXXXX15480 ($6,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIGHLAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $6,446 in grants to HIGHLAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGHLAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL?
- FRANCES R DEWING FOUNDATION 7600-XXXXXX15480 is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGHLAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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