Missouri · Nonprofit
URBAN MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF SAINT LOUIS
URBAN MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF SAINT LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,974 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,974). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $200k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $111k
What Urban Montessori Institute of Saint Louis does
Mission
The urban montessori institute of st. Louis was founded to promote affordable educational opportunities to optimize the natural development of children. With a profound desire to honor their unfolding intelligence and compassionate spirits, the forest park montessori school exists to prepare children for a world of challenge and change, using the timeless wisdom of dr. Maria montessori. We believe the well-rounded children and adults we influence will change the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Forest park montessori has been serving st. Louis families since 2010. Founded by montessori educator trish curtis, the school was established to provide accessible, flexible, affordable montessori education to families in st. Louis city. Forest park montessori is a small school and a collaborative educational environment; the close-knit community and small student body cultivates a space that feels like home-away-from-home, perfect for families who value a child-centered education that is both warm and engaging. With enrollment schedules consisting of a variety of part- time options, fpm is well-suited to serve families who value flexibility in a value-driven early childhood educational setting.
$152,607 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $152,607.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $36k to $76k (+110%).
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.
13% of URBAN MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF SAINT LOUIS’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. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 URBAN MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF SAINT LOUIS’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
100% of URBAN MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF SAINT LOUIS'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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
URBAN MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF SAINT LOUIS has grown faster than three-quarters 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 URBAN MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF SAINT LOUIS
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds URBAN MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF SAINT LOUIS?
- URBAN MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF SAINT LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,974 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,974). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does URBAN MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF SAINT LOUIS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,974 in grants to URBAN MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF SAINT LOUIS.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF SAINT LOUIS?
- ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,974 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF SAINT LOUIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2021–2025), 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