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Mountain City Public Montessori

Mountain City Public Montessori (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,332 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($13,832). 2 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.

Revenue FY2025
$2.0M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$47k
Net assets
$449k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Mountain City Public Montessori does

Mission

Operation of a public charter school.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operation of a public charter school in Asheville, NC. The School opened in July 2023. These amounts are the beginning revenues and expenses prior to opening. There were approximatley 138 students served in year end June 30, 2025.

    $1,342,619 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,342,619.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($29k) Expenses 100 ($85k) Net assets -60 ($-55313)2024 Revenue 4898 ($1.4M) Expenses 1594 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($92k)2025 Revenue 6824 ($2.0M) Expenses 1950 ($1.7M) Net assets 488 ($449k)
202320242025
Revenue (6824)Expenses (1950)Net assets (488)Peer revenue range

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 $216k to $477k (+121%).

$70k
$216k
$477k
202320242025
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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 4% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

6% of Mountain City Public Montessori’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

−$55k
’23
$92k
’24
$357k
’25
2.5
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.

Board chair

Wren Cook

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202320242025
Listed8814
Joined·+0+6
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

2 of 4 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 Mountain City Public Montessori’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

Mountain City Public Montessori leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 Mountain City Public Montessori.

29%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
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 Mountain City Public Montessori'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 $21k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from North Carolina funders.

VA
NC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Mountain City Public Montessori runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)726% · outside the comparable range

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 19%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mountain City Public Montessori: 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 Mountain City Public Montessori?
Mountain City Public Montessori (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,332 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($13,832). 2 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 Mountain City Public Montessori have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $47,332 in grants to Mountain City Public Montessori, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Mountain City Public Montessori?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $13,832 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Mountain City Public Montessori find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 4 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