California · Nonprofit
The Dahlia School of San Francisco Elementary
The Dahlia School of San Francisco Elementary (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $110,000 to it, the largest being THE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION ($110,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $627k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $110k
- Net assets
- $138k
What The Dahlia School of San Francisco Elementary does
Mission
The Montessori Method helps all children become truly capable and productive individuals by focusing on their moral, behavioral, emotional, and intellectual development. Our Montessori Guides are Association of Montessori Internationale and American Montessori Society trained educators bringing world-class experience and environments to the children, classroom, school and families.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
As the only elementary school in the Mission Bay neighborhood, the Dahlia School of San Francisco Elementary aims to create a high quality, equitable, beautiful learning environment. We offer and plan to accept tuition assistance programs as we believe educational opportunities should be available to families in our community regardless of financial means. We are a Spanish-immersion Montessori school. Through the Montessori curriculum, students gain an appreciation for the vastness and richness of the world-and emerge ready to explore their unique place within it. The Montessori Method helps all children become truly capable and productive individuals by focusing on their moral, behavioral, emotional, and intellectual development. Our Montessori Guides are Association of Montessori Internationale and American Montessori Society trained educators bringing world-class experience and environments to the children, classroom, school and families. As a high-fidelity immersion program, our guides teach in Spanish, allowing children to naturally develop bilingual fluency. Through this approach, our students learn to read, write, speak, and sing with confidence in both Spanish and English.
$390,194 spent$350,000 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $390,194.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $94k to $1.1M (+1038%).
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.
61% of The Dahlia School of San Francisco Elementary’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of The Dahlia School of San Francisco Elementary’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.
Where its funders are
The Dahlia School of San Francisco Elementary draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
The Dahlia School of San Francisco Elementary runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The Dahlia School of San Francisco Elementary
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% 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 The Dahlia School of San Francisco Elementary: 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 The Dahlia School of San Francisco Elementary?
- The Dahlia School of San Francisco Elementary (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $110,000 to it, the largest being THE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION ($110,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Dahlia School of San Francisco Elementary have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $110,000 in grants to The Dahlia School of San Francisco Elementary, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Dahlia School of San Francisco Elementary?
- THE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Dahlia School of San Francisco Elementary find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 1 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