Fairmount Montessori
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 392647490
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Fort Worth, TX, USA
- Phone
- 6827030146
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $106,863
- Expenses
- $150,935
- Assets
- $10,928
- Liabilities
- $55,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Emily McDermott (Director - President)
People named in this filing
- Emily McDermott (Director - President)
- Cody Martin (Director- secretary)
- Chris Dziak (Director-)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide early childhood education and childcare services to the local community utilizing the Montessori method of instruction.
What it reported doing in 2025
Primary Exempt Purpose: To provide high-quality early childhood education and childcare services using the Montessori method. Program Service Accomplishments: Operated a non-profit Montessori daycare and preschool center serving approximately 31 children in the Fort Worth area. Provided a structured educational environment based on the Montessori method, which emphasizes independent learning, cognitive growth, and social development. The organization provided full-day care (7:00 am to 6:00 pm) for 180 school days during the tax year. The organization maintained 100% regulatory compliance and achieved required certifications through the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) and the City of Fort Worth. Safety & Infrastructure Upgrades: To ensure a secure learning environment, the organization completed significant capital improvements, including the installation of new perimeter fencing, repaving the school parking lot, and installing a code-compliant playground set. Facility enhancements also included energy-efficient window upgrades and a modernized air conditioning system to maintain a healthy indoor climate for students. Active Learning Enhancements: Expanded the educational curriculum through the acquisition of specialized Montessori instructional materials, sensory learning tables, and an innovative indoor hydroponic garden system to facilitate science and biology education. Professional Instructional Standards: Maintained high-quality care and low student-to-teacher ratios by employing six qualified instructors. Beyond core academics, the school provided holistic development programs including specialized yoga and music instruction.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 6
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -41.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 5.03; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.3%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $151K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.