North Carolina · Nonprofit
Swannanoa Valley Montessori School Inc
Swannanoa Valley Montessori School Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $178,997 to it, the largest being BUNCOMBE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ($130,433). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $770k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $179k
- Net assets
- $300k
What Swannanoa Valley Montessori School Inc does
Mission
With an accomplished team of caring and dedicated Montessori educators, our mission is guiding preschool-6th grade students to academic achievement, forstering a love of learning, building character, and instilling the importance of contributing to the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Providing education in a safe and nuturing environment for children preschool to 6th grade using the Montessori method of learning. Our vision is to sustain a diverse, mindful and authentic Montessori Educational community. We help children become self-motivated, independent individuals who respect themselves and the world in which we live. We have three Childrens House preschool classrooms increasing our current enrollment capacity to 60 students. Our Elementary program serves up to 14 children from grades 1-6. Approximately 90% of our elementary students receive scholarship assistance from the State of North Carolina through either ESA Grant or the Opportunity Scholarship programs. When possible, we provide financial aid to our Childrens House students when a family needs assistance. Our goal is to be able to participate in the countys child care subsidy program in the next year to help support families with a greater financial need.
$602,216 spent$172,691 earned by the program100% of program spendingIn September of 2024, Hurricane Helene brought catastrophic levels of flooding to the WNC region. BMTMs school building flooded from water runoff from the road and around the building. Once we were able to assess the damage, we learned that 6,000 square feet of flooring would need to removed and replaced. This included 6,000 sq ft of asbestos tile that was underneath the floor in the building. The process was lengthy and required the school to be closed for 8 weeks. The school was able to offer reduced programming out of a local church for 3 weeks once the Town of Black Mountain restored access to water. Volunteers helped us move classrooms, clean up after the storm, empty rooms that required restoration, track down supplies and drinking water, restore the playground after storm damages, move back into the building and clean after restoration was complete. In the aftermath of the storm, we learned that we can count on our parent and local community members to help.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $602,216.
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 2021 to 2022, from $225k to $379k (+68%).
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 5% · 2022 40% · 2023 8% · 2024 7% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of Swannanoa Valley Montessori School Inc’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. 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $5k.
1 of 4 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 Swannanoa Valley Montessori School Inc’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
Swannanoa Valley Montessori School Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% 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
78% 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 Swannanoa Valley Montessori School Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 96% — 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
78% of Swannanoa Valley Montessori School Inc's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $652 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.
Against its field
Swannanoa Valley Montessori School Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Swannanoa Valley Montessori School Inc
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% 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 Swannanoa Valley 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Swannanoa Valley Montessori School Inc?
- Swannanoa Valley Montessori School Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $178,997 to it, the largest being BUNCOMBE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ($130,433). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Swannanoa Valley Montessori School Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $178,997 in grants to Swannanoa Valley Montessori School Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Swannanoa Valley Montessori School Inc?
- BUNCOMBE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC is the largest funder on record, with $130,433 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Swannanoa Valley Montessori School Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North 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 4 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