Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
LEE MONTESSORI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
LEE MONTESSORI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $999,772 to it, the largest being EDUCATION FORWARD DC ($338,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1000k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Lee Montessori Public Charter School does
Mission
To create a more just, liberated world. Lee montessori is a diverse, interconnected community that redefines high-quality education by pairing montessori with anti-bias/anti-racist practices. Lee montessori creates a joyful learning environment where children and families flourish, and can show up as their authentic selves.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The school achieves its mission by inspiring academic success by providing montessori curriculum in a holistic and developmentally responsive environment; nurturing student creativity, curiosity and efficacy by promoting self-directed education; offering individual paced academic instruction and activities; engaging students in purposeful and collaborative community building activities; fostering student's use of inner discipline, concentration and task completion to encourage lifelong critical thinking and discovery; and preserving and cultivating the innate capacity of students so they can reach their full potential as contributing global citizens.
$14,315,745 spent$14,914,821 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,315,745.
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. 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 $3.4M to $15M (+331%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 4% · 2019 5% · 2020 5% · 2021 16% · 2022 13% · 2023 17% · 2024 7% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of LEE MONTESSORI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Simon Rodberg
Executive director
Board chair
Akela Dogbe
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $145k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 LEE MONTESSORI PUBLIC CHARTER 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
LEE MONTESSORI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
78% 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 LEE MONTESSORI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 58% · 2020 46% · 2021 98% · 2022 66% · 2023 55% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of LEE MONTESSORI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
69% of LEE MONTESSORI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $83k 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.
Against its field
LEE MONTESSORI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like LEE MONTESSORI PUBLIC CHARTER 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 Washington, D.C.
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 LEE MONTESSORI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL?
- LEE MONTESSORI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $999,772 to it, the largest being EDUCATION FORWARD DC ($338,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEE MONTESSORI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $999,772 in grants to LEE MONTESSORI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEE MONTESSORI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL?
- EDUCATION FORWARD DC is the largest funder on record, with $338,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEE MONTESSORI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 12 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