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MONTESSORI PROJECT FOUNDATION

MONTESSORI PROJECT FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,470 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($6,470). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$479k
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$11k
Grants received
$507k
Net assets
0/2 repeat funders

Against its field

MONTESSORI PROJECT FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin74% · top quartile
Months of reserve48.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)30% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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 ($61k) Expenses 100 ($76k) Net assets 100 ($147k)2018 Revenue 70 ($42k) Expenses 82 ($62k) Net assets 87 ($128k)2019 Revenue 108 ($65k) Expenses 71 ($54k) Net assets 95 ($139k)2020 Revenue 85 ($51k) Expenses 66 ($50k) Net assets 96 ($141k)2021 Revenue 129 ($78k) Expenses 89 ($67k) Net assets 103 ($151k)2022 Revenue 108 ($66k) Expenses 82 ($62k) Net assets 105 ($155k)2023 Revenue 123 ($74k) Expenses 88 ($67k) Net assets 110 ($162k)2024 Revenue 388 ($235k) Expenses 106 ($80k) Net assets 105 ($155k)2025 Revenue 792 ($479k) Expenses 167 ($127k) Net assets 345 ($507k)
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Revenue (792)Expenses (167)Net assets (345)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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of MONTESSORI PROJECT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,816 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$15k
17
$20k
18
$12k
19
$1k
20
$11k
21
$3k
22
$8k
23
$155k
24
$353k
25
48
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)56% 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 PROJECT FOUNDATION’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 PROJECT FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

56% 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 PROJECT FOUNDATION.

56%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

56% of MONTESSORI PROJECT FOUNDATION'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

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 PROJECT FOUNDATION

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

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
0%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • California Montessori Project · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MONTESSORI PROJECT FOUNDATION: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds MONTESSORI PROJECT FOUNDATION?
MONTESSORI PROJECT FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,470 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($6,470). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MONTESSORI PROJECT FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $11,470 in grants to MONTESSORI PROJECT FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of MONTESSORI PROJECT FOUNDATION?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,470 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MONTESSORI PROJECT FOUNDATION 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 2funders 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