2025-08-13T15:55:36-05:00 2024-06-30 Kientz & Penick CPAs LLC PO BOX 754 Manhattan KS 66505 990 2023-07-01 454093008 City of Fountains School CITY 8168395756 PO Box 140441 Kansas City MO 64114 Kari Cottrell Treasurer 8168395756 2025-08-13 1 0 Eric Kientz CPA P01526012 7854779053 2023 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Kari Cottrell PO Box 140441 Kansas City MO 64114 769256 0 X https://www.cityoffountainsschool.org X 2011 MO Education for early childhood through 8th grade 7 4 24 50 0 0 6208 172478 498709 586608 0 10170 0 0 504917 769256 0 0 0 0 190936 389876 0 0 0 61931 246137 252867 636013 252050 133243 421829 322316 0 0 421829 322316 X The City of Fountains School (the School) has a mission which honors the wonder and importance of childhood by (a) engaging and educating the head, heart and hands, (b) fostering creative innovative individuals capable of free independent thought, (c) and nourishing each child's relationship with the natural world and its rhythms thus cultivating a lifelong reverence for what is good beautiful and true.The School integrates arts with academics offering a developmentally appropriate curriculum inspired by Waldorf educational pedagogy. The School educates children to become individual creative thinkers from early childhood through 8th grade. The School's curriculum is filled with the basics such as reading, writing, arithmetic, history and science. It is enriched with music, art, movement, games, nature, exploration, foreign language and handwork classes. 0 0 337747 346123 The School's grades program provides an interdisciplinary approach to a wide range of academic subjects including mathematics, grammar, botany, zoology, chemistry, physics, physiology, history and geography in blocks that span multiple weeks per subject. Teachers strive to bring the subjects alive first within themselves and then through their presentation to awaken the enthusiasm and interest of the students.Additionally, students learn through specialty subject classes such as music, foreign language, movement and handwork. The program ran the first Tuesday after Labor Day through the last Friday before Memorial Day.During the year ended June 30, 2024, the grades program served 61 students running from the first Tuesday after Labor Day through the last Friday before Memorial Day with a weekly schedule of Monday to Thursday 8:30 am to 2:55 pm. 189253 193946 The School's early childhood program offers two mixed-age Kingergarten classes (ages 3.5 to 6 years old) and a Parent-Child class (infants to 3.5 years old).The School provides a nurturing environment for the children and gives them ample opportunity to learn through play and purposeful activities. Reverence is held for both the natural world and the unfolding child. The day is structured in a rhythmic movement that engages the head, heart and hands.Parents in the Parent-Child class are able to practice mindful parenting while learning about Waldorf Education and child development. Parents are also given the opportunity to connect with one another as the children learn through age-appropriate play.During the year ended June 30, 2024, the early childhood program served 45 kindergarten students and 35 parent-child families running from the first Tuesday after Labor Day through the last Friday before Memorial Day with a weekly schedule of Monday to Friday 8:45 am to 3:00 pm. 45413 46539 The School's enrichment program provides an opportunity for homeschooling families to incorporate education inspired by the Waldorf approach into their curricula and homeschool. This program provides the grades students with additional opportunity to come another day to further their education. Each enrichment program class follows a daily Waldorf-inspired rhythm including main lessons, movement, social and outdoor time.During the year ended June 30, 2024, the enrichment program served 42 students running from the first Tuesday after Labor Day through the last Friday before Memorial Day with a weekly schedule of meeting three times per week from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. 572413 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 1 24 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 7 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 X The Organization 8168395756 PO Box 140441 Kansas City MO 64114 Daniela Hindman Presider 35.00 X X 38935 0 0 Stephen Flanery Co-Presider 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Jill Paton Secretary 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Dennis Dunmeyer Treasurer 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Layla Olberding Faculty Chair 28.00 X 28662 0 0 Shannon Berry Director 1.00 X 0 0 0 Kari Cottell Director 29.00 X 27382 0 0 94979 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 172478 172478 Grades 611110 346123 346123 Early childhood 611110 193946 193946 Enrichment 611110 46539 46539 586608 10170 10170 769256 586608 0 10170 94979 85481 9498 294897 265407 29490 32163 28947 3216 8338 7504 834 125 113 12 32089 28880 3209 11241 10117 1124 45435 40892 4543 15446 13901 1545 94925 85433 9492 6375 5738 637 636013 572413 63600 0 421829 322316 421829 322316 0 0 X 0 0 0 0 421829 322316 421829 322316 421829 322316 133243 -232756 0 X 0 0 0 X 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Schedule E, Part I, Line 3 The School has its racially nondiscriminatory policy listed on the home page of its website and also publishes the policy in a local paper that is widely distributed and available free to the public. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b IRS Form 990 was drafted by an external CPA and then reviewed by the School's board members prior to filing. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c Board members complete a yearly review of conflict of interests at the annual board meeting. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 Public inspection documents are available by submitting a written request to the School's business office.