Minnesota · Nonprofit
SUNNY HOLLOW MONTESSORI
SUNNY HOLLOW MONTESSORI (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $329,971 to it, the largest being HIAWATHA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ($142,200). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $330k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Sunny Hollow Montessori does
Mission
Sunny Hollow Montessori cultivates each child's intellectual and creative potential, appreciation of relationships in nature and society, and sense of individual responsibility.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The school's primary objectives are to enable children to: 1. Create their sense of self through purposeful activities; 2. Possess innate sensitivities for absorbing and learning from their environment; and 3. Have a natural desire to learn.
$2,595,921 spentof which $191,583 as grants$2,857,734 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,595,921.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $982k to $1.5M (+50%).
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 1% · 2018 0% · 2021 14% · 2022 11% · 2024 13% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of SUNNY HOLLOW MONTESSORI’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Nan Arundel
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $84k → $26k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 SUNNY HOLLOW MONTESSORI’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
SUNNY HOLLOW MONTESSORI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 SUNNY HOLLOW MONTESSORI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 61% · 2019 46% · 2020 46% · 2021 33% · 2022 64% · 2023 52% — broadly stable.
“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
50% of SUNNY HOLLOW MONTESSORI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
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 SUNNY HOLLOW MONTESSORI's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $83k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
SUNNY HOLLOW MONTESSORI runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SUNNY HOLLOW MONTESSORI
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% 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 SUNNY HOLLOW MONTESSORI: 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 SUNNY HOLLOW MONTESSORI?
- SUNNY HOLLOW MONTESSORI (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $329,971 to it, the largest being HIAWATHA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ($142,200). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUNNY HOLLOW MONTESSORI have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $329,971 in grants to SUNNY HOLLOW MONTESSORI, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUNNY HOLLOW MONTESSORI?
- HIAWATHA EDUCATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $142,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUNNY HOLLOW MONTESSORI find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 11 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