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KENSINGTON NURSERY SCHOOL

KENSINGTON NURSERY SCHOOL (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $968 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($968). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$217k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$968
Net assets
$173k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Kensington Nursery School does

Mission

Kensington Nursery School (kns) is a pre-school that serves children ranging from 2 to 5 years of age. Kns is dedicated to providing a nurturing and enriching environment for preschool children and their families.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Kensington Nursery School (kns) is a parent cooperative preschool. Kns runs three classes - a 2 year old class, 3 year old class, and a 4 year old class. Play is a major activity through which children develop social skills, work out difficulties, and exercise their physical, sensory, emotional, and cognitive abilities. Children are exposed to art, music, and physical and academic readiness to prepare them for their future.

    $171,798 spent$191,751 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $171,798.

02The 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 ($152k) Expenses 100 ($139k) Net assets 100 ($177k)2018 Revenue 103 ($156k) Expenses 115 ($159k) Net assets 98 ($174k)2019 Revenue 109 ($166k) Expenses 113 ($157k) Net assets 103 ($182k)2020 Revenue 74 ($113k) Expenses 106 ($147k) Net assets 83 ($148k)2021 Revenue 39 ($60k) Expenses 63 ($87k) Net assets 68 ($120k)2022 Revenue 132 ($200k) Expenses 114 ($159k) Net assets 91 ($162k)2023 Revenue 96 ($145k) Expenses 126 ($174k) Net assets 75 ($133k)2024 Revenue 128 ($195k) Expenses 125 ($174k) Net assets 80 ($142k)2025 Revenue 143 ($217k) Expenses 134 ($186k) Net assets 97 ($173k)
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Revenue (143)Expenses (134)Net assets (97)

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 $143k to $182k (+27%).

$196k
$203k
$197k
$160k
$143k
$182k
$146k
$173k
$188k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

Surplus & reserves

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

$13k
’17
−$3k
’18
$9k
’19
−$35k
’20
−$27k
’21
$41k
’22
−$29k
’23
$21k
’24
$31k
’25
9.3
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $131 → $202.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 KENSINGTON NURSERY 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.

Where its funders are

100% of KENSINGTON NURSERY SCHOOL'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $968 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.

04Its place in the field

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In Maryland

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 1%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

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Questions and answers

Who funds KENSINGTON NURSERY SCHOOL?
KENSINGTON NURSERY SCHOOL (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $968 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($968). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does KENSINGTON NURSERY SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $968 in grants to KENSINGTON NURSERY SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KENSINGTON NURSERY SCHOOL?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $968 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KENSINGTON NURSERY SCHOOL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 1 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