South Carolina · Nonprofit
SEA PINES MONTESSORI ACADEMY
SEA PINES MONTESSORI ACADEMY (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $286,897 to it, the largest being HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION ($281,395). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $927k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $287k
- Net assets
- $0
What Sea Pines Montessori Academy does
Mission
Our mission is to provide each child with the best foundation for character development and academic discovery while promoting leadership and confidence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Various costs associated with programs which provide a montessori-based education to students of the school/organization. See column b of page 10 for further details.
$739,704 spentof which $53,439 as grants$819,781 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $739,704.
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.
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 $954k to $0 (−100%).
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: 2021 14% · 2022 19% · 2023 4% · 2024 12% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $52k → $35k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 SEA PINES MONTESSORI ACADEMY’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
SEA PINES MONTESSORI ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
98% 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 SEA PINES MONTESSORI ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 93% · 2022 96% · 2023 97% — 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
98% of SEA PINES MONTESSORI ACADEMY's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $502 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like SEA PINES MONTESSORI ACADEMY
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% 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 SEA PINES MONTESSORI ACADEMY: 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 SEA PINES MONTESSORI ACADEMY?
- SEA PINES MONTESSORI ACADEMY (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $286,897 to it, the largest being HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION ($281,395). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEA PINES MONTESSORI ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $286,897 in grants to SEA PINES MONTESSORI ACADEMY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEA PINES MONTESSORI ACADEMY?
- HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $281,395 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEA PINES MONTESSORI ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 3 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