Mountain Shadows Montessori School

Analysis

Mountain Shadows Montessori School is a registered charity in United States, based in Boulder, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1977, 49 years ago. 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 June 2023, Mountain Shadows Montessori School reported income of $1.4m and spending of $1.3m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $1.4m (+16%), an average of +5.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Mountain Shadows Montessori School sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Greenwich Scholarship Association Inc ($1.4m), Computers for Children Inc ($1.4m) and Birmingham-Southern College Foundation ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 5.8% and program service revenue 94% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $170k (13% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $658k. At year end it held assets of $2.0m against liabilities of $250k, net assets of $1.7m. It reported 18 employees.