Massachusetts · Nonprofit
VIOLETA MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
VIOLETA MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,631 to it, the largest being I A O'SHAUGHNESSY FOUNDATION ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $590k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $99k
- Net assets
- $340k
What Violeta Montessori School Inc does
Mission
The school's primary goal is to be an experiment in a new learning environment, blurring the boundaries between home-school and institutional schooling, between scientists and teachers, between schools and the neighborhoods around them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We are a one classroom bilingual dual immersion (spanish-english) montessori school in cambridge, massachusetts, serving children 2.9 to 6 years of age.
$534,000 spent$570,565 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $534,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $197k to $315k (+60%).
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 12% · 2022 17% · 2023 13% · 2024 13% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of VIOLETA MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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 narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $36k → $106.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 VIOLETA 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
VIOLETA MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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
44% 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 VIOLETA MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 56% · 2020 60% · 2021 51% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
VIOLETA MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
VIOLETA MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC is better cushioned 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 VIOLETA 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% 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 VIOLETA 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 VIOLETA MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC?
- VIOLETA MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,631 to it, the largest being I A O'SHAUGHNESSY FOUNDATION ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VIOLETA MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $98,631 in grants to VIOLETA MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VIOLETA MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC?
- I A O'SHAUGHNESSY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VIOLETA MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 3 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