Alabama · Nonprofit
MONTESSORI SOCIETY OF HUNTSVILLE
MONTESSORI SOCIETY OF HUNTSVILLE (Alabama) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,277 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($14,868). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $33k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Montessori Society of Huntsville does
Mission
The montessori school of huntsville (msh) guides children to be independent learners, critical thinkers, and tomorrow's leaders while preparing them for a life of purpose, integrity, and academic accomplishment. We provide education for toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary children through the eighth grade.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide education for toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary children through the eighth grade.
$1,886,357 spentof which $141,342 as grants$1,973,233 earned by the program98% of program spendingOther educational services
$46,780 spent2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,933,137.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.1M to $2.4M (+14%).
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 13% · 2022 13% · 2023 11% · 2024 22% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Nick Sandridge
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $250 → $275.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 HUNTSVILLE’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 HUNTSVILLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 HUNTSVILLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 94% · 2022 44% · 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
92% of MONTESSORI SOCIETY OF HUNTSVILLE'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Alabama, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 HUNTSVILLE
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% 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 HUNTSVILLE: 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 HUNTSVILLE?
- MONTESSORI SOCIETY OF HUNTSVILLE (Alabama) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,277 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($14,868). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MONTESSORI SOCIETY OF HUNTSVILLE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $33,277 in grants to MONTESSORI SOCIETY OF HUNTSVILLE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTESSORI SOCIETY OF HUNTSVILLE?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $14,868 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTESSORI SOCIETY OF HUNTSVILLE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 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