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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Action for Eastern Montana does
Mission
Action for Eastern Montana is committed to strengthening and enhancing the quality of life within the communities we serve by promoting education, advocacy and dignity for achieving independence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Area Agency On AgingProvides a variety of opportunities for persons age 60 and older and to their spouse regardless of age. Services under the Older Americans Act have no income guidelines. Some of the services provided by our local county councils on aging include: transportation, skilled nurse, personal care, homemaker, health promotion, respite care, senior centers, legal services, congregate meals, home delivered meals, and outreach.
$2,031,816 spent40% of program spendingHead StartProvides comprehensive services to eligible preschoolers and their families in Glendive, Glasgow, Malta, and Miles City, Montana. The purpose of the program is to develop, administer, and implement programs for the educational, social, health, nutritional, and psychological needs of children and their families. While eligibility is based on income guidelines, families that received certain benefits may be eligible. Ten percent of the slots can be filled with over-income families.
$1,523,540 spent30% of program spendingWeatherizationWeatherization assistance is provided to households who qualify for Low Income Energy Assistance (LIEAP) benefits. Client homes are prioritized on a list according to income and energy burden/usage. Weatherization measures may include a furnace tune-up, caulking, weather stripping, insulation, storm windows, vent dampers, window quilts, and replacement of broken glass and repair of primary doors.
$701,866 spent14% of program spendingLow Income Energy AssistanceThe LIEAP program is designed to help low-income families and individuals with a portion of their heating bills.
$320,310 spent6% of program spendingCommunity Services Block GrantAEM provides innovative and creative solutions to identified community needs. The goal is to build and sustain healthy communities through the development of community programs that educate and support families and individuals.
$293,215 spent6% of program spendingEmployment and TrainingThe Workforce Innovation And Opportunity Act (WIOA) provides services to youth ages 14-21, if in school, and ages 16-24, if out of school. The main purpose is to increase the focus on longer-term academic and occupational learning opportunities and provide long-term comprehensive service strategies.
$160,948 spent3% of program spendingSection 8 HousingProvides assistance to low-income, handicapped, elderly, and disabled persons with rental costs. Assistance is based on household income.
$107,217 spent2% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,138,912.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $4.1M to $5.3M (+29%).
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
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Cynthia L Larsen
CEO
Board chair
Kevin Krausz
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 state is 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.
Against its field
ACTION FOR EASTERN MONTANA is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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.
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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.
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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 6 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing