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MADISON COMMUNITY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC

MADISON COMMUNITY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,561 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($17,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.1M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$42k
Net assets
$1.7M
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Madison Community Montessori School Inc does

Mission

Respecting children and their natural joy of discovery.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Madison community montessori school offers a wide range of programs for children ages 15 months through 14. In addition to the core montessori curriculum, children's house and elementary after school programs are offered for families needing extended care. We now enroll 135 students in one toddler community for children ages 15 months to 3 years, three children's house classrooms for children ages 3 through 6, one lower elementary classroom for children ages 6 through 9, one upper elementary classroom for children ages 9 through 12, and one adolescent classroom for children ages 12 through 14. Summer programs are also available for children ages 15 months through 6 years.

    $2,261,030 spentof which $96,975 as grants$1,982,432 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,261,030.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 114 ($2.2M) Expenses 111 ($1.8M) Net assets 130 ($1.8M)2019 Revenue 106 ($2.0M) Expenses 122 ($2.0M) Net assets 135 ($1.9M)2020 Revenue 90 ($1.7M) Expenses 119 ($1.9M) Net assets 124 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 65 ($1.2M) Expenses 89 ($1.4M) Net assets 110 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 131 ($2.5M) Expenses 112 ($1.8M) Net assets 159 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 108 ($2.1M) Expenses 129 ($2.1M) Net assets 158 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 107 ($2.1M) Expenses 140 ($2.2M) Net assets 144 ($2.0M)2025 Revenue 109 ($2.1M) Expenses 150 ($2.4M) Net assets 120 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (109)Expenses (150)Net assets (120)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 $3.9M to $3.3M (−15%).

$3.6M
$4.0M
$4.1M
$4.0M
$4.0M
$4.1M
$4.1M
$3.9M
$3.3M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2022 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

2% of MADISON COMMUNITY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

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

$306k
’17
$402k
’18
$69k
’19
−$201k
’20
−$199k
’21
$697k
’22
$439
’23
−$198k
’24
−$337k
’25
4.8
months of
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

Jessica Hermsen

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed12121112141210810
Joined·+3+3+5+7+0+3+1+3
No longer listed·34452531
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $190.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 MADISON COMMUNITY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC’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

MADISON COMMUNITY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

43% 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 MADISON COMMUNITY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC.

41%
largest funder
89%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 94% · 2019 83% · 2020 94% · 2021 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

MADISON COMMUNITY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 3 states in all.

IL
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MADISON COMMUNITY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like MADISON COMMUNITY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC

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 Wisconsin

Nationally

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 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds MADISON COMMUNITY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC?
MADISON COMMUNITY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,561 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($17,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MADISON COMMUNITY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $41,561 in grants to MADISON COMMUNITY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MADISON COMMUNITY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC?
The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $17,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MADISON COMMUNITY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 5 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