Minnesota · Nonprofit
ROCHESTER MONTESSORI SCHOOL
ROCHESTER MONTESSORI SCHOOL (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,281 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($30,283). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $64k
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Rochester Montessori School does
Mission
Guide the child through a prepared environment to become an independent thinker who is responsible, respectful and compassionate to self, community and the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The school instructs a regularly enrolled body of students according to the montessori philosophy and international baccalaureate principles using a structured curriculum. The school provides regular, school-year education including before and after school activities to an average of 19 part time and 203 full time students based on the public school calendar. An additional eight-week long summer school program is also provided to an average of 60 students per week.
$2,759,495 spentof which $35,448 as grants$3,367,535 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,759,495.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4.8M to $5.2M (+9%).
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: 2022 13% · 2023 19% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of ROCHESTER MONTESSORI SCHOOL’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. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $16k → $28k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 ROCHESTER 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
ROCHESTER MONTESSORI SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 ROCHESTER MONTESSORI SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 61% · 2022 100% · 2023 52% — 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.
Where its funders are
ROCHESTER MONTESSORI SCHOOL draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states in all.
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
ROCHESTER MONTESSORI SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ROCHESTER 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.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROCHESTER 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 ROCHESTER MONTESSORI SCHOOL?
- ROCHESTER MONTESSORI SCHOOL (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,281 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($30,283). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROCHESTER MONTESSORI SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $64,281 in grants to ROCHESTER MONTESSORI SCHOOL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROCHESTER MONTESSORI SCHOOL?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,283 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROCHESTER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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