Colorado · Nonprofit
MONARCH MONTESSORI OF DENVER FIRST STEPS
MONARCH MONTESSORI OF DENVER FIRST STEPS (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $199,995 to it, the largest being MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $200k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Monarch Montessori of Denver First Steps does
Mission
We aim to help each child reach their full potential in all areas of life. Monarch montessori provides a holistic approach to learning, based on the educational philosophy of dr. Montessori. Our experienced educators tailor to the individual need of each child, while our program welcomes families of all race, ethnicity, and economic background. This method supports our students as the become engaged learneds today and leaders of the future tomorrow.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization's mission is to provide a tuition based,infant, toddler, and preschool program. Elements of the program cater the various needs of families and children in the surrounding neighborhood. We aim to help each child reach their full potential in all areas of life. Monarch montessori provides a holistic approach to learning, based on the educational philosophy of dr. Montessori. Our experienced educators tailor to the individual need of each child, while our program welcomes families of all race, ethnicity, and economic background. This method supports our students as the become engaged learneds today and leaders of the future tomorrow.
$1,921,365 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,921,365.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $2.0M to $2.5M (+29%).
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 11% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of MONARCH MONTESSORI OF DENVER FIRST STEPS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $33.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 MONARCH MONTESSORI OF DENVER FIRST STEPS’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
MONARCH MONTESSORI OF DENVER FIRST STEPS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 MONARCH MONTESSORI OF DENVER FIRST STEPS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 72% · 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
100% of MONARCH MONTESSORI OF DENVER FIRST STEPS's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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.
Against its field
MONARCH MONTESSORI OF DENVER FIRST STEPS is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MONARCH MONTESSORI OF DENVER FIRST STEPS
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MONARCH MONTESSORI OF DENVER FIRST STEPS: 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 MONARCH MONTESSORI OF DENVER FIRST STEPS?
- MONARCH MONTESSORI OF DENVER FIRST STEPS (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $199,995 to it, the largest being MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONARCH MONTESSORI OF DENVER FIRST STEPS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $199,995 in grants to MONARCH MONTESSORI OF DENVER FIRST STEPS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONARCH MONTESSORI OF DENVER FIRST STEPS?
- MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONARCH MONTESSORI OF DENVER FIRST STEPS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2021–2025), 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