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KENNEBEC MONTESSORI SCHOOL

KENNEBEC MONTESSORI SCHOOL (Maine) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,352 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($50,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.2M
Revenue FY2025
10
Funders on record
$130k
Grants received
$860k
Net assets
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($850k) Expenses 100 ($728k) Net assets 100 ($450k)2018 Revenue 108 ($920k) Expenses 123 ($896k) Net assets 107 ($482k)2019 Revenue 111 ($944k) Expenses 137 ($993k) Net assets 110 ($494k)2020 Revenue 105 ($890k) Expenses 128 ($933k) Net assets 105 ($472k)2021 Revenue 120 ($1.0M) Expenses 124 ($902k) Net assets 142 ($638k)2022 Revenue 145 ($1.2M) Expenses 149 ($1.1M) Net assets 157 ($706k)2023 Revenue 137 ($1.2M) Expenses 132 ($959k) Net assets 204 ($917k)2024 Revenue 133 ($1.1M) Expenses 160 ($1.2M) Net assets 195 ($876k)2025 Revenue 141 ($1.2M) Expenses 172 ($1.3M) Net assets 191 ($860k)
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Revenue (141)Expenses (172)Net assets (191)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 15% · 2022 10% · 2023 5% · 2024 5% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$123k
17
$24k
18
$49k
19
$42k
20
$121k
21
$145k
22
$205k
23
$32k
24
$55k
25
4.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $28k → $17k.

3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)48% 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 KENNEBEC 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

KENNEBEC MONTESSORI SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

55% 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 KENNEBEC MONTESSORI SCHOOL.

38%
largest funder
70%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 100% · 2022 71% · 2023 68%growing more concentrated.

“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

29% of KENNEBEC MONTESSORI SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

62% of KENNEBEC MONTESSORI SCHOOL's grant income comes from Maine funders.

ME
NY
CA
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Maine out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $62k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like KENNEBEC MONTESSORI SCHOOL

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Maine

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KENNEBEC MONTESSORI SCHOOL: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds KENNEBEC MONTESSORI SCHOOL?
KENNEBEC MONTESSORI SCHOOL (Maine) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,352 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($50,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KENNEBEC MONTESSORI SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $130,352 in grants to KENNEBEC MONTESSORI SCHOOL, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KENNEBEC MONTESSORI SCHOOL?
Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KENNEBEC MONTESSORI SCHOOL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing