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St Vrain Community Montessori School

St Vrain Community Montessori School (Colorado) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $375,924 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION ($215,155). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$4.0M
Revenue FY2025
11
Funders on record
$376k
Grants received
$-2445519
Net assets
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

Against its field

St Vrain Community Montessori School is better cushioned than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve3.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.

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

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($2.9M) Expenses 100 ($2.9M)2022 Revenue 115 ($3.4M) Expenses 113 ($3.2M)2023 Revenue 126 ($3.7M) Expenses 125 ($3.6M)2024 Revenue 143 ($4.2M) Expenses 143 ($4.1M)2025 Revenue 138 ($4.0M) Expenses 141 ($4.0M)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (138)Expenses (141)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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 9% · 2022 7% · 2023 9% · 2024 5% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

11% of St Vrain Community Montessori School’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$58k
21
$127k
22
$102k
23
$94k
24
$24k
25
3.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $12k → $56k.

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)93% 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 St Vrain Community 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

St Vrain Community Montessori School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

93% 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 St Vrain Community Montessori School.

57%
largest funder
89%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 71% · 2021 51% · 2022 37% · 2023 40%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

100% of St Vrain Community Montessori School's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

93% of St Vrain Community 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 $28k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 6 states.

IL
WI
NY
CT
CO
VA

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

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Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $348k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

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 St Vrain Community 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 Colorado

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Colorado Department of Education · exempt
  • St Vrain Valley School District · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for St Vrain Community 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 St Vrain Community Montessori School?
St Vrain Community Montessori School (Colorado) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $375,924 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION ($215,155). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does St Vrain Community Montessori School have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $375,924 in grants to St Vrain Community Montessori School, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of St Vrain Community Montessori School?
COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $215,155 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like St Vrain Community Montessori School find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 11funders 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