Kansas · Nonprofit
Little Tots Montessori
Little Tots Montessori (Kansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $276,748 to it, the largest being KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES ($268,648). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $749k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $277k
- Net assets
- $0
What Little Tots Montessori does
Mission
Little Tots Montessori will provide a safe nurturing environment for your child while learning problem-solving and active and social development. Our curriculum will reflect learning and development as a whole.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Educational Services in a safe nurturing environment for children while learning problem-solving and active and social development
$967,670 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $967,670.
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 2023 to 2024, from $619k to $0 (−100%).
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: 2020 4% · 2021 15% · 2022 17% · 2023 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of Little Tots Montessori’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $20k → $87k.
From the IRS filings of Little Tots Montessori’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
Little Tots Montessori leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Little Tots Montessori.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of Little Tots Montessori's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Little Tots Montessori's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Little Tots Montessori
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Little Tots Montessori: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Little Tots Montessori?
- Little Tots Montessori (Kansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $276,748 to it, the largest being KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES ($268,648). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Little Tots Montessori have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $276,748 in grants to Little Tots Montessori, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Little Tots Montessori?
- KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES is the largest funder on record, with $268,648 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Little Tots Montessori find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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