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COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CORPORATION

COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CORPORATION (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $276,920 to it, the largest being CHS FOUNDATION ($204,420). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$31k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$277k
Net assets
$0
2/2 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Cooperative Education Corporation does

Mission

Education and promotion of agricultural issues

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To provide education on cooperative business and provide leadership training for montanans. Programs funded include "developing future leaders and "day of cooperative education."

    $31,000 spentof which $31,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $31,000.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($49k) Expenses 100 ($49k)2018 Revenue 181 ($89k) Expenses 181 ($89k)2019 Revenue 96 ($47k) Expenses 114 ($56k)2020 Revenue 139 ($68k) Expenses 139 ($68k)2021 Revenue 82 ($40k) Expenses 82 ($40k)2022 Revenue 86 ($42k) Expenses 86 ($42k)2023 Revenue 55 ($27k) Expenses 55 ($27k)2024 Revenue 63 ($31k) Expenses 63 ($31k)2025 Revenue 63 ($31k) Expenses 63 ($31k)
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Revenue (63)Expenses (63)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $27k to $0 (−100%).

$14k
$40k
$48k
$42k
$20k
$10k
$27k
$0
$0
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,734 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$0
’17
$0
’18
−$9k
’19
$0
’20
$0
’21
$0
’22
$0
’23
$0
’24
$0
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $31k.

Funder
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total
funders
1
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1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CORPORATION’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

COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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

74%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 92% · 2020 56% · 2021 82% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CORPORATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 1 state in all.

MN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CORPORATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,510 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CORPORATION?
COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CORPORATION (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $276,920 to it, the largest being CHS FOUNDATION ($204,420). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CORPORATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $276,920 in grants to COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CORPORATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CORPORATION?
CHS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $204,420 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CORPORATION 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 2 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