Stepping Stones Montessori School in East Lansing

Analysis

Stepping Stones Montessori School in East Lansing is a registered charity in United States, based in East Lansing, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2025. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a school under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending July 2020, Stepping Stones Montessori School in East Lansing reported income of $537k and spending of $596k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from July 2019 to July 2020, income fell from $733k to $537k (-27%), an average of -27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2020, when income dropped by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Stepping Stones Montessori School in East Lansing sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 71st percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Umkc Trustees ($537k), Project 613 NFP ($537k) and Norfolk Library Inc ($537k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending July 2020, revenue came from contributions and grants 4.8% and program service revenue 92% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $429k. At year end it held assets of $527k against liabilities of $332k, net assets of $196k. It reported 33 employees.