Michigan · Nonprofit
Montessori Society of Greater Grand Rapids
Montessori Society of Greater Grand Rapids (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,955 to it, the largest being REV FOUNDATION ($100,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $235k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Montessori Society of Greater Grand Rapids does
Mission
Stepping Stones Montessori School nutures global citizens and guides each child to realize thier unique potential
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
School Stepping Stones students are well prepared to face the challenges that life is likely to throw at them. They leave Stepping Stones with a strong sense of self, a solid academic experience and most importantly a love of learning that will serve them the rest of their lives.
$2,721,497 spentof which $175,152 as grants$3,415,986 earned by the program94% of program spendingChild Care Provide a safe day care alternative to parents where the child is encouraged in the development of education, concentration, coordination, independence, and a sense of order.
$160,663 spentof which $17,323 as grants$325,356 earned by the program6% of program spendingSummer Session Provide a safe summer care program alternative to parents, where the child is encouraged in the development of education, concentration, coordination, independence and sense of order.
$22,590 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,882,160.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.6M to $2.5M (+55%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Walter Perschbacher
Finance Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $13k → $26k.
6 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 Society of Greater Grand Rapids’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 Society of Greater Grand Rapids leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 Society of Greater Grand Rapids.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 55% · 2021 84% · 2022 64% · 2023 41% — 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
67% of Montessori Society of Greater Grand Rapids's funders are still giving 2 years 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
51% of Montessori Society of Greater Grand Rapids'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 $116k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $119k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 Montessori Society of Greater Grand Rapids
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% 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 Montessori Society of Greater Grand Rapids: 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 Society of Greater Grand Rapids?
- Montessori Society of Greater Grand Rapids (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,955 to it, the largest being REV FOUNDATION ($100,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Montessori Society of Greater Grand Rapids have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $234,955 in grants to Montessori Society of Greater Grand Rapids, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Montessori Society of Greater Grand Rapids?
- REV FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Montessori Society of Greater Grand Rapids find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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