Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
The Montessori School
The Montessori School (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $469,512 to it, the largest being CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND ($407,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $470k
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What The Montessori School does
Mission
The Montessori School educates children from 18 months-6th grade. Our program is rooted in the educational philosophy of Dr. Maria Montessori faithful to her method. In our caring environment, sustained by freedom peace, the school educates children for life by awakening their intellects, nourishing their spirits developing their independence
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Montessori School is a full time day school for grades preschool through 6th grade. The school was founded in 1970 by a group of parents determined to provide quality Montessori education for their children through the 6th grade. Today the school consists of toddler, childrens house, lower elementary, and upper elementary classes, as well as a before- and after- school extended hours program on an 8 acre campus. The school is one of only a few Montessori Schools in the Phila area that extends its early childhood program through a 6th grade elementary program. The school educated children using the authentinc Montessori approach- a multi-sensory curriculum that allows for individualized teaching and for students to learn and be challenged at their own pace as they develop academically as a cummunity that fosters self-confidence, leadership, and respect for self and others. The school encouraes students to grow as self-motivated, intellectually engaged learners who will serve their larger communities as both accomplished students and ambassadors of peace.
$1,766,055 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,766,055.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $5.0M to $4.5M (−9%).
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%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Rachel Shearon
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $6k → $80k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 The 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
The Montessori School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 The Montessori School.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 100% · 2019 68% · 2020 96% · 2021 62% · 2022 91% · 2023 84% — 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
96% of The Montessori School's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like The Montessori School
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% 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 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 The Montessori School?
- The Montessori School (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $469,512 to it, the largest being CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND ($407,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Montessori School have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $469,512 in grants to The Montessori School, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Montessori School?
- CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND is the largest funder on record, with $407,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Montessori School find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 7 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