Alabama · Nonprofit
MONTGOMERY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
MONTGOMERY EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,824,604 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA ($5,453,309). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $411k
What Montgomery Education Foundation does
Mission
Montgomery Education Foundation believes that all children deserve a quality education. The mission is to provide programs that support the growth of our students, schools and communities through partnership and volunteerism.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Starbase: is a hands on learning program in coordination with maxwell air force base to raise interest and improve both the knowledge and skill sets of students specifically in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathmatics (stem). This program serves students who are historically under represented in stem feilds, students who live in urban communities, or rural areas, who are socioeconomically disadvantaged or perform poorly in academics.
$1,098,590 spent78% of program spendingBold goals: seeks to provide high quality early learning by increasing kindergarten readiness and removing barries to early grade reading through prenatal and infant health, child health and development, early learning, family support, and out of school enrichment, while improving literacy in montgomery's schools.
$170,581 spent12% of program spendingMgm reads: seeks to provide and distribute underserved students and families in the montgomery community with culturally relevant books and literacy support materials to extend learning support during the summer.
$73,843 spent5% of program spendingCharter schools: the charter school conversion between Montgomery Education Foundation and montgomery public schools aims to accelerate the learning opportunities, improve academic and social performance, and implement new & successful instructional strategies for students at davis elementary, nixon elementary, and bellingrath middle school. The charter school conversion's overall objective include: 1) for each school to rise from a failing report card to a "c or above in 5 years or less, 2) to increase funding and retained funding by improving learning and academic performace/results, and 3) impact a larger number of students.
$59,020 spent4% of program spendingOther program services: to achieve and accomplish educating socio-econimcally disadvantaged children in school in montgomery and the surrounding area. Funding is expensed to pre-kindergarten through sixth graders to help advance the education offered in the alabama school systems, and help fulfill the basic needs, supplies, and quality education in order to accomplish this.
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,402,034.
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.
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 $489k to $158k (−68%).
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: 2017 98% · 2018 70% · 2019 9% · 2020 14% · 2021 7% · 2022 11% · 2023 24% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of MONTGOMERY EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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. 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
Paul Hankins
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $23k → $1.2M.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 MONTGOMERY EDUCATION 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
MONTGOMERY EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 MONTGOMERY EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 87% · 2019 42% · 2020 53% · 2021 100% · 2022 92% · 2023 96% — growing more concentrated.
“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
29% of MONTGOMERY EDUCATION FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
100% of MONTGOMERY EDUCATION FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
MONTGOMERY EDUCATION FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MONTGOMERY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Mef Charter Schools Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MONTGOMERY EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- MONTGOMERY EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,824,604 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA ($5,453,309). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTGOMERY EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $5,824,604 in grants to MONTGOMERY EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTGOMERY EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA is the largest funder on record, with $5,453,309 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTGOMERY EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 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