Ohio · Nonprofit
MARY SEAT OF WISDOM CLASSICAL COMMUNITY
MARY SEAT OF WISDOM CLASSICAL COMMUNITY (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,061 to it, the largest being KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC ($20,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $128k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $-50734
What Mary Seat of Wisdom Classical Community does
Mission
Mary Seat of Wisdom Classical Community's mission is to cooperate with parents in providing a nurturing environment which allows each child to flourish spiritually, mentally, socially, and physically. Our education is rooted in the catechesis of the good shepherd so that we can prepare the next generation to be a light in the darkness. Our acedemic program is an authentic catholic montessori approach using hands-on materials with mixed age groups that allows for each child to progress and be challenged at their own pace while learning how to work in a community.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Msw montessori served children 2.5-9 years of age and gave them an environment to develop as a whole person. Students were enrolled in our step-up, primary, or elementary classrooms.
$105,502 spentof which $11,333 as grants$57,382 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $105,502.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $3k to $55k (+1710%).
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 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Louis St Hilaire
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $500 → $20k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 MARY SEAT OF WISDOM CLASSICAL COMMUNITY’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
MARY SEAT OF WISDOM CLASSICAL COMMUNITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 MARY SEAT OF WISDOM CLASSICAL COMMUNITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 87% · 2023 99% — 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
97% of MARY SEAT OF WISDOM CLASSICAL COMMUNITY'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 MARY SEAT OF WISDOM CLASSICAL COMMUNITY
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% 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 MARY SEAT OF WISDOM CLASSICAL COMMUNITY: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARY SEAT OF WISDOM CLASSICAL COMMUNITY?
- MARY SEAT OF WISDOM CLASSICAL COMMUNITY (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,061 to it, the largest being KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC ($20,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MARY SEAT OF WISDOM CLASSICAL COMMUNITY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $40,061 in grants to MARY SEAT OF WISDOM CLASSICAL COMMUNITY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARY SEAT OF WISDOM CLASSICAL COMMUNITY?
- KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARY SEAT OF WISDOM CLASSICAL COMMUNITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2018–2024), 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