Montana · Nonprofit
AWARE INC
AWARE INC (Montana) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,090,341 to it, the largest being PAUL J MCCANN FOUNDATION ($500,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $65M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $34M
What Aware Inc does
Mission
Aware, inc. (anaconda work and residential enterprise) is a nonprofit corporation, qualified provider of residential, work/day, case management, home support, psychiatry, early childhood education, substance abuse, and school based services for adults, families, and children with developmental disabilities (including autism spectrum disorders). Aware is also a licensed mental health center which also provides the aforementioned services to adults, families, and children with serious emotional disturbances, serious substance abuse issues, emotional issues, and co-occurring disorders. Aware is the only organization in montana that has achieved this unique status as both a licensed mental health center and a qualified provider of services for individuals and families with developmental disabilities. Aware is also a qualified provider of early head start services in addition to partnering with head start programs throughout the state to provide mental health supports in the classroom.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Effective 07/01/25, aware acquired liberty place, inc. A nonprofit organization out of whitehall, mt. Two homes were included with a maximum capacity of 20 residents. The residents served are diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Dphhs/dd division: 131 clients served total, including: congregate living homes served 66 individuals, including 7 children's home clients; supported living congregate living homes served 40 clients; 96 individuals participated in work and day activity programs; 19 individuals received non-congregate supported living services; behavior support services were provided to 65 individuals.dphhs/dd targeted case management (tcm) division: average of 2,213 individuals served each month - 2,296 total clients served throughout year.
$18,163,274 spent$21,046,376 earned by the program41% of program spendingMental health programs: qualified residential treatment facilities served 82 dd/sed adolescents in 4 montana counties; psychiatric care for 449 individuals; day treatment programs serving 31 youths; home support services for 1,002 youth; outpatient mental health service provided to 601 individuals; medicaid autism treatment services for 112 individuals; program of assertive community treatment (pact) services provided to 157 adults; adult mental health group homes in 3 counties serving approximately 18 individuals; mental health case management provided to 1,604 adults and 502 youth.
$21,948,086 spentof which $4,063 as grants$31,306,914 earned by the program49% of program spendingEarly head start: programs in 6 counties serving approximately 261 children ages 0 to 3 and prenatal mothers.
$4,332,064 spentof which $862 as grants10% of program spendingProduction and miscellaneous programs, housing services, transportation services.
$0 spent$539,608 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $44,443,424.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $36M to $45M (+27%).
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: 2021 11% · 2022 15% · 2023 17% · 2024 13% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Matthew Bugni
CEO
Board chair
Kristy Mckay
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $51k → $232k.
4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 AWARE INC’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
AWARE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 57% · 2019 83% · 2020 45% · 2021 45% · 2022 59% · 2023 43% — 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.
How long its funders stay
36% of AWARE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AWARE INC draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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.
Government funding AWARE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $52.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$52.9M
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 AWARE INC
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
80% 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 AWARE INC: 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 AWARE INC?
- AWARE INC (Montana) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,090,341 to it, the largest being PAUL J MCCANN FOUNDATION ($500,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AWARE INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,090,341 in grants to AWARE INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AWARE INC?
- PAUL J MCCANN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AWARE INC 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.
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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 21 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing