North Carolina · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
INTERNATIONAL MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,273 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($49,199). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $150k
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What International Montessori School Inc does
Mission
International montessori school (ims) is a independent not-for-profit school which offers an education that combines foreign language immersion with a solid academic foundation in the montessori tradition for children ages 18 months to 14 years (preschool through 8th grade). Approximately 176 students attend the school.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ims was established in 1996, with the mission to prepare children for success in an increasingly global society by becoming contributing, bilingual citizens. The international montessori school (ims) is a language immersion montessori school offering tracks in french, spanish, and mandarin chinese for children regardless of race, or national or ethnic origin. Ims serviced 172 students from preschool through 6th grade in 3 difference language tracks, french (47 students), spanish (77 students), & chinese (41 students). The toddler program served 11 students.
$2,617,269 spent$2,876,564 earned by the program89% of program spendingIms runs additional programs to support school students including an after school program, a before school early drop off program and a summer camp program.
$321,108 spent$611,455 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,938,377.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $6.1M to $7.4M (+22%).
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: 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of INTERNATIONAL MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Ana-Laura Diaz
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $32k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 INTERNATIONAL 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
INTERNATIONAL MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 INTERNATIONAL MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 90% · 2022 64% · 2023 51% — 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
88% of INTERNATIONAL 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 $18k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $132k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
INTERNATIONAL MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 INTERNATIONAL MONTESSORI SCHOOL 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC?
- INTERNATIONAL MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,273 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($49,199). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $150,273 in grants to INTERNATIONAL MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $49,199 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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