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ROGERS PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL

ROGERS PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL (Illinois) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $909,438 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($303,432). 15 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.

$9.0M
Revenue FY2024
20
Funders on record
$909k
Grants received
$2.8M
Net assets
15/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

Against its field

ROGERS PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL is better cushioned than half of the 11,749 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,749 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.3M) Expenses 100 ($7.2M) Net assets 100 ($2.8M)2018 Revenue 103 ($7.5M) Expenses 103 ($7.5M) Net assets 100 ($2.8M)2019 Revenue 107 ($7.8M) Expenses 103 ($7.5M) Net assets 112 ($3.2M)2020 Revenue 103 ($7.5M) Expenses 102 ($7.4M) Net assets 117 ($3.3M)2021 Revenue 100 ($7.3M) Expenses 103 ($7.5M) Net assets 112 ($3.2M)2022 Revenue 116 ($8.5M) Expenses 119 ($8.6M) Net assets 109 ($3.1M)2023 Revenue 123 ($9.0M) Expenses 122 ($8.9M) Net assets 113 ($3.2M)2024 Revenue 123 ($9.0M) Expenses 129 ($9.4M) Net assets 100 ($2.8M)
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Revenue (123)Expenses (129)Net assets (100)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 11% · 2022 10% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

4% of ROGERS PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$61k
17
$8k
18
$324k
19
$143k
20
$133k
21
$97k
22
$129k
23
$403k
24
6.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $216k → $129k.

8 of 20 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 ROGERS PARK 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

ROGERS PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

84% 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 ROGERS PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL.

33%
largest funder
64%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 96% · 2019 57% · 2020 77% · 2021 48% · 2022 42% · 2023 32%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

55% of ROGERS PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 ROGERS PARK 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 $176k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 7 states.

IL
NY
MA
SD
CA
NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $734k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 20 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like ROGERS PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 24%Fundraising 2%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROGERS PARK 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds ROGERS PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL?
ROGERS PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL (Illinois) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $909,438 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($303,432). 15 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 ROGERS PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $909,438 in grants to ROGERS PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ROGERS PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $303,432 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ROGERS PARK 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.

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 20funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing