Tennessee · Nonprofit
SAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE
SAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being THE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $113k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $-14888
What Sage Montessori School of Nashville does
Mission
Sage Montessori School of Nashville is a member of the Wildflower Network of schools, in Nashville, the first Wildflower school in Tennessee. Wildflower is an ecosystem of decentralized Montessori micro-schools that support children, teachers, and parents. Wildflower aspires to give all children and families the opportunity to choose high-quality, beautiful learning environments as they follow life's unfolding journey.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Sage Montessori School of Nashville is a member of the Wildflower Network of schools, in Nashville, the first Wildflower school in Tennessee. Wildflower is an ecosystem of decentralized Montessori micro-schools that support children, teachers, and parents. Wildflower aspires to give all children and families the opportunity to choose high-quality, beautiful learning environments as they follow life's unfolding journey.
$100,600 spentof which $46,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $100,600.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $3k to $64k (+2407%).
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.
48% of SAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE’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
SAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 SAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE.
“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
SAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE's revenue grew 4252% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE
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In Tennessee
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE?
- SAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being THE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $35,000 in grants to SAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE.
- Who is the largest funder of SAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE?
- THE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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