Illinois · Nonprofit
NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL
NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL (Illinois) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,237,122 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,000,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $27M
What Near North Montessori School does
Mission
Near north montessori prepares students for life in an ever changing and complex world inspiring them to reach their inherent potential through montessori philosophy and with a strong parent-school partnership.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Near north montessori is the place where children can soar. Our school develops curious, motivated, and accomplished lifelong learners from pre-school through 8th grade via an environment and montessori approach unique to our school. Located in the wicker park neighborhood of chicago, our families draw from over 40 neighborhoods across chicago and the surrounding areas.here you will not find the traditional lineup of desks in rows, textbooks and mind-numbing rote memorization. What you will find are dynamic learning laboratories - a school alive with students exploring questions about the world around them. Classrooms are vibrant communities, each organized by age levels, where students spend three years learning and growing together. Teachers carefully orchestrate the students' journey, with the trajectory of each individual student fine-tuned prior to launch. Teachers question, challenge, and inspire students. They look for ways to spark creativity and imagination. They cultivate the three rs: respect, responsibility and resilience. All classroom teachers are trained in the montessori method, and each lead teacher holds a credential from association montessori internationale…
$13,461,361 spentof which $1,933,899 as grants$15,334,933 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $13,461,361.
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 2020 to 2021, from $34M to $39M (+12%).
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.
6% of NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $62k → $126k.
15 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 funders by total. 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
NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 54% · 2019 87% · 2020 32% · 2021 39% · 2022 31% · 2023 42% — 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
30% of NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
81% of NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL'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 $616k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL's revenue grew 34% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL?
- NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL (Illinois) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,237,122 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,000,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $3,237,122 in grants to NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 45 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