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MONTESSORI TEACHER EDUCATION CENTER

MONTESSORI TEACHER EDUCATION CENTER (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being GOOD360 ($0). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$715k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$0
Net assets
$2.4M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Montessori Teacher Education Center does

Mission

Training teachers in the montessori method of teaching.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Program services montessori education

    $371,881 spent$683,722 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $371,881.

02The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($703k) Expenses 100 ($497k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 143 ($1.0M) Expenses 122 ($608k) Net assets 130 ($1.7M)2019 Revenue 121 ($849k) Expenses 124 ($617k) Net assets 148 ($1.9M)2020 Revenue 80 ($565k) Expenses 89 ($443k) Net assets 158 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 73 ($510k) Expenses 113 ($561k) Net assets 154 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 55 ($386k) Expenses 107 ($530k) Net assets 143 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 68 ($480k) Expenses 87 ($432k) Net assets 146 ($1.9M)2024 Revenue 96 ($673k) Expenses 94 ($469k) Net assets 162 ($2.1M)2025 Revenue 102 ($715k) Expenses 83 ($414k) Net assets 185 ($2.4M)
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Revenue (102)Expenses (83)Net assets (185)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $1.3M to $1.7M (+30%).

$1.3M
$1.7M
$1.9M
$2.1M
$2.0M
$1.9M
$1.9M
$2.1M
$2.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

Government-grant reliance: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

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

$205k
’17
$395k
’18
$231k
’19
$122k
’20
−$51k
’21
−$144k
’22
$48k
’23
$204k
’24
$300k
’25
65
months of
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

Pamela Z Rigg

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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03Who funds it
04Its place in the field

Organizations like MONTESSORI TEACHER EDUCATION CENTER

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 California

Montessori Child Development Centers of California Inc71%Montessori Center School of Santa Barbara70%One World Montessori School Inc69%Casa Montessori Inc69%Montessori Institute of San Diego69%Montessori Association of Covina68%Montessori World Educational Institute68%Marguerite Kiefer Education Center Inc67%

Nationally

Ponderosa Montessori Inc73%Montessori School of Bowling Green73%International Montessori Training Institute of Ohio72%Montessori Institute of Milwaukee Inc71%Montessori Education Trust Inc71%Montessori Renaissance Academy71%Montessori Child Development Centers of California Inc71%John Xxiii Montessori Childrens Ctr71%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MONTESSORI TEACHER EDUCATION CENTER: 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 TEACHER EDUCATION CENTER?
MONTESSORI TEACHER EDUCATION CENTER (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being GOOD360 ($0). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MONTESSORI TEACHER EDUCATION CENTER have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to MONTESSORI TEACHER EDUCATION CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MONTESSORI TEACHER EDUCATION CENTER?
GOOD360 is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MONTESSORI TEACHER EDUCATION CENTER 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 1 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing