Montana · Nonprofit
ACTION FOR EASTERN MONTANA
ACTION FOR EASTERN MONTANA (Montana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,386,881 to it, the largest being Energy Share of Montana Inc ($1,246,378). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ACTION FOR EASTERN MONTANA is better cushioned than half of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Montana Homeownership Network Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Foundation for Community Carelocal
- The Wintercare Energy Fund Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
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: 2017 85% · 2018 92% · 2019 92% · 2020 95% · 2021 94% · 2022 95% · 2023 94% · 2024 92% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ACTION FOR EASTERN MONTANA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $305k → $85k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ACTION FOR EASTERN MONTANA’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
ACTION FOR EASTERN MONTANA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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
100% 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 ACTION FOR EASTERN MONTANA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 88% · 2019 92% · 2020 91% · 2021 86% · 2022 77% · 2023 82% — diversifying over time.
“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
100% of ACTION FOR EASTERN MONTANA's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $192 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Montana Homeownership Network Incshared fundersportfolio matchMT · backs 7 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Community CarelocalMT · funds 9 organizations near you
- The Wintercare Energy Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Association of Community Action Agenciesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maine Community Action Association Dba Maine Community Action Partnershipportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Project Discovery of Virginia Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Community Action Partnership Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Western Maine Community Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Community Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cwi Works Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maryland Association of Community Action Agenciesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Massachusetts Association for Community Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding ACTION FOR EASTERN MONTANA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$17.6M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$3.2M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ACTION FOR EASTERN MONTANA
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACTION FOR EASTERN MONTANA: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ACTION FOR EASTERN MONTANA?
- ACTION FOR EASTERN MONTANA (Montana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,386,881 to it, the largest being Energy Share of Montana Inc ($1,246,378). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACTION FOR EASTERN MONTANA have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,386,881 in grants to ACTION FOR EASTERN MONTANA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACTION FOR EASTERN MONTANA?
- Energy Share of Montana Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,246,378 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACTION FOR EASTERN MONTANA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing