Minnesota · Nonprofit
LAKE COUNTRY SCHOOL MONTESSORI LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
LAKE COUNTRY SCHOOL MONTESSORI LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS (Minnesota) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,187,895 to it, the largest being I A O'SHAUGHNESSY FOUNDATION ($316,450). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Lake Country School Montessori Learning Environments does
Mission
Lake country school is a montessori learning environment that fosters independence, critical thinking, and creativity within each child. We are a community that promotes diversity and inclusion, as well as respect and responsibility to self, to others, and to the earth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education/instructional - lake country school -montessori learning environments is a minnesota non-profit independent school, fully accredited by the independent schools association of the central states (isacs), as well as members of the minnesota association of independent schools (mais). Located in south minneapolis lake country school was incorporated on july 28th 1976 and strives to be the exemplar of a montessori learning experience for its 280+ students, ages 3-14 years. Lake country school was the first montessori school in minnesota to offer a montessori education for students from ages 9-14. In addition to the standard school year program lake country school offers a summer program and a rural farm campus (lake country land school) with programming available to all of its students throughout the year.
$4,444,944 spentof which $683,372 as grants$4,920,080 earned by the program85% of program spendingAuxiliary activities - extended day programs are before and after school day care and extra-curricular activities such as after school clubs and sports. Land school operations such as residencies and camps, and summer programs are also considered auxiliary activities but are vital to the educational program offering.
$794,279 spent$524,270 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,239,223.
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.
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 $12M to $16M (+29%).
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 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Kate Thulin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $25k → $99k.
12 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 LAKE COUNTRY SCHOOL MONTESSORI LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS’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
LAKE COUNTRY SCHOOL MONTESSORI LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
59% 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 LAKE COUNTRY SCHOOL MONTESSORI LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 31% · 2019 31% · 2020 43% · 2021 27% · 2022 23% · 2023 51% — 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
42% of LAKE COUNTRY SCHOOL MONTESSORI LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
58% of LAKE COUNTRY SCHOOL MONTESSORI LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS'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 $499k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $689k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Organizations like LAKE COUNTRY SCHOOL MONTESSORI LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LAKE COUNTRY SCHOOL MONTESSORI LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS?
- LAKE COUNTRY SCHOOL MONTESSORI LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS (Minnesota) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,187,895 to it, the largest being I A O'SHAUGHNESSY FOUNDATION ($316,450). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LAKE COUNTRY SCHOOL MONTESSORI LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,187,895 in grants to LAKE COUNTRY SCHOOL MONTESSORI LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKE COUNTRY SCHOOL MONTESSORI LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS?
- I A O'SHAUGHNESSY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $316,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKE COUNTRY SCHOOL MONTESSORI LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 27 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing