Colorado · Nonprofit
MSE aka MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF EVERGREEN INC
MSE aka MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF EVERGREEN INC (Colorado) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $504,225 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($213,635). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $504k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What MSE aka MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF EVERGREEN INC does
Mission
To ignite a lifelong love of learning within each student. To provide meaningful experiences that fully engage young minds in the pursuit of academic excellence, self-reliance and the determination to contribute to our rapidly changing community and world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To provide a nurturing environment in which children and adolescents can explore, learn, and flourish. To promote academic excellence and encourage students to follow their interests and passions, to develop a love of learning; to respect themselves, others and their environment; and to achieve their potential.
$1,807,123 spent$2,634,872 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,807,123.
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 $5.4M to $3.9M (−28%).
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.
5% of MSE aka MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF EVERGREEN INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $48k → $55k.
7 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 MSE aka MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF EVERGREEN INC’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
MSE aka MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF EVERGREEN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 MSE aka MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF EVERGREEN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 82% · 2019 73% · 2020 80% · 2021 59% · 2022 46% · 2023 40% — 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
25% of MSE aka MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF EVERGREEN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
89% of MSE aka MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF EVERGREEN INC'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 $55k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $449k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
MSE aka MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF EVERGREEN INC receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $504k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MSE aka MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF EVERGREEN INC
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MSE aka MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF EVERGREEN INC?
- MSE aka MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF EVERGREEN INC (Colorado) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $504,225 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($213,635). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MSE aka MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF EVERGREEN INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $504,225 in grants to MSE aka MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF EVERGREEN INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MSE aka MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF EVERGREEN INC?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $213,635 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MSE aka MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF EVERGREEN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 11 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