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LITTLE TREE COMMUNITY A WILDFLOWER MONTESSORI SCHOOL

LITTLE TREE COMMUNITY A WILDFLOWER MONTESSORI SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,500 to it, the largest being THE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$192k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$36k
Net assets
$-88254
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Little Tree Community a Wildflower Montessori School does

Mission

To provide an environnment where children are given the guidance and freedom to strengthen their social-emotional tools, academic endeavors, physical capabilities, and problem-solving skills through self-driven independence.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provided an environment where 14 children were given the guidance and freedom to strengthen their social-emotional tools, academic endeavors, physical capabilities, and problem-solving skills through self-driven independence.

    $175,079 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $175,079.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.

100 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($100k) Expenses 100 ($162k)2025 Revenue 191 ($192k) Expenses 134 ($218k)
20242025
Revenue (191)Expenses (134)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $170k to $186k (+9%).

$170k
$186k
20242025
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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

5% of LITTLE TREE COMMUNITY A WILDFLOWER MONTESSORI SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

−$62k
’24
−$26k
’25

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Megan Adragna

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 LITTLE TREE COMMUNITY A WILDFLOWER 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

LITTLE TREE COMMUNITY A WILDFLOWER MONTESSORI SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% 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 TREE COMMUNITY A WILDFLOWER MONTESSORI SCHOOL.

85%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

LITTLE TREE COMMUNITY A WILDFLOWER MONTESSORI SCHOOL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

MN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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

Against its field

LITTLE TREE COMMUNITY A WILDFLOWER MONTESSORI SCHOOL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−14% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)91% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds LITTLE TREE COMMUNITY A WILDFLOWER MONTESSORI SCHOOL?
LITTLE TREE COMMUNITY A WILDFLOWER MONTESSORI SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,500 to it, the largest being THE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LITTLE TREE COMMUNITY A WILDFLOWER MONTESSORI SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $35,500 in grants to LITTLE TREE COMMUNITY A WILDFLOWER MONTESSORI SCHOOL.
Who is the largest funder of LITTLE TREE COMMUNITY A WILDFLOWER MONTESSORI SCHOOL?
THE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LITTLE TREE COMMUNITY A WILDFLOWER MONTESSORI SCHOOL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2024–2025), 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