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Montessori Childrens House of the West Coast

Montessori Childrens House of the West Coast (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,333 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($95,616). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$2.2M
Revenue FY2025
8
Funders on record
$192k
Grants received
$2.6M
Net assets
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

Montessori Childrens House of the West Coast runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin27% · top quartile
Months of reserve19.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($865k)2018 Revenue 98 ($1.3M) Expenses 99 ($1.2M) Net assets 110 ($954k)2019 Revenue 106 ($1.4M) Expenses 102 ($1.3M) Net assets 125 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 80 ($1.1M) Expenses 90 ($1.1M) Net assets 147 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 104 ($1.4M) Expenses 108 ($1.3M) Net assets 164 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 114 ($1.5M) Expenses 114 ($1.4M) Net assets 183 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 144 ($1.9M) Expenses 125 ($1.5M) Net assets 229 ($2.0M)2025 Revenue 164 ($2.2M) Expenses 129 ($1.6M) Net assets 298 ($2.6M)
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Revenue (164)Expenses (129)Net assets (298)Peer revenue range

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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 9% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

21% of Montessori Childrens House of the West Coast’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$109k
17
$93k
18
$157k
19
$43k
21
$66k
22
$122k
23
$396k
24
$601k
25
19
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $15k → $37k.

4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)76% 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 Montessori Childrens House of the West Coast’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

Montessori Childrens House of the West Coast leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

76% 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 Montessori Childrens House of the West Coast.

50%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 2023 47%diversifying over time.

“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

76% of Montessori Childrens House of the West Coast'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 $47k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.

IL
NY
CA

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

17
18
23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $145k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 296 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Montessori Childrens House of the West Coast

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Montessori Childrens House of the West Coast: 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 Montessori Childrens House of the West Coast?
Montessori Childrens House of the West Coast (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,333 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($95,616). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Montessori Childrens House of the West Coast have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $192,333 in grants to Montessori Childrens House of the West Coast, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Montessori Childrens House of the West Coast?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $95,616 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Montessori Childrens House of the West Coast 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing