Illinois · Nonprofit
SOUTH HARPER MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
SOUTH HARPER MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being Illinois Action for Children ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SOUTH HARPER MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC's revenue fell 44% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Henry Booth Houseshared funders
- Hiawatha Education Foundationportfolio match
- Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Networkportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 65% · 2020 14% · 2021 44% · 2022 45% · 2023 21% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of SOUTH HARPER MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
- Henry Booth Houseshared fundersIL · backs 10 organizations that share your funders
- Hiawatha Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Action for Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Early Learning Coalition of Broward County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wildflower Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Coordinated Child Care Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Episcopal Children's Services Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- River Valley Child Development Services Services Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agenciesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Early Learning Coalition of Duval Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 SOUTH HARPER MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTH HARPER MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: 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.
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 SOUTH HARPER MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC?
- SOUTH HARPER MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being Illinois Action for Children ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTH HARPER MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to SOUTH HARPER MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH HARPER MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC?
- Illinois Action for Children is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH HARPER MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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