Minnesota · Nonprofit
RED COTTAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL
RED COTTAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,035 to it, the largest being FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE ($16,144). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $89k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $52k
- Net assets
- $172k
What Red Cottage Montessori School does
Mission
Authentic montessori school
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Red Cottage Montessori School is a grassroot, parent driven, board directed, authentic montessori school offering montessori education for children 18 months-9 years. The method fully embraces a childs individuality
$141,437 spentof which $25,563 as grants100% of program spendingRcms has 4 programs that provide the bulk of services for 18 mo-6th grade toddler, childrens home, lower elementary and upper elementary programs. Fiscal year 2023-2024 rcms enrolled children and provided montessori education.
1. Rcms toddler program offers safe, peaceful, nurturing community for the youngest children. This prepared environment supports freedom of movement and uninterrupted time for concentration and focus of their work.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $141,437.
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 $146k to $237k (+62%).
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.
29% of RED COTTAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
Kai Rodgers
Board chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $69.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 RED COTTAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL’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
RED COTTAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 RED COTTAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 97% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of RED COTTAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k 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
RED COTTAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL's revenue fell 68% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like RED COTTAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RED COTTAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: 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 RED COTTAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL?
- RED COTTAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,035 to it, the largest being FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE ($16,144). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RED COTTAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $52,035 in grants to RED COTTAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RED COTTAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL?
- FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE is the largest funder on record, with $16,144 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RED COTTAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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