Tennessee · Nonprofit
MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY AT HIGHLAND PARK
MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY AT HIGHLAND PARK (Tennessee) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,794,937 to it, the largest being THE YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ($786,469). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Montessori Elementary at Highland Park does
Mission
The mission of Montessori Elementary at Highland Park is to cultivate ambitious, fearless learners through intellectually-stimulating, interactive experiences that awaken curiosity, nurture advanced thinking, and promotoe independence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Opened in 2021, Montessori Elementary at Highland Park is a co-education, public charter school that offers an educational program for children, pre-k 3 through 5th grade. The school serves families from all backgrounds and provides a dynamic, participatory environment that integrates montessori childhood education with steam experiential learning. The vision is to establish a trajectory for lifelong learning and self-directed discovery that enables children to reach their full potential as intellectually-engaged learners and ethically-focused leaders.
$3,691,577 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,691,577.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $2.5M to $3.8M (+52%).
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: 2022 63% · 2023 88% · 2024 86% · 2025 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY AT HIGHLAND PARK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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.
Chief executive
Elaine Swafford
Executive director
Board chair
Sue Anne Wells
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $10k → $304k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $120k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY AT HIGHLAND PARK raised.
From the IRS filings of MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY AT HIGHLAND PARK’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 ELEMENTARY AT HIGHLAND PARK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 ELEMENTARY AT HIGHLAND PARK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 50% · 2022 46% · 2023 44% — 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.
How long its funders stay
83% of MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY AT HIGHLAND PARK's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
70% of MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY AT HIGHLAND PARK's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY AT HIGHLAND PARK runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY AT HIGHLAND PARK
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Young Women's Leadership Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY AT HIGHLAND PARK?
- MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY AT HIGHLAND PARK (Tennessee) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,794,937 to it, the largest being THE YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ($786,469). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY AT HIGHLAND PARK have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,794,937 in grants to MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY AT HIGHLAND PARK, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY AT HIGHLAND PARK?
- THE YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $786,469 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY AT HIGHLAND PARK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 12 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