Montana · Nonprofit
DISABILITY RIGHTS MONTANA
DISABILITY RIGHTS MONTANA (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,222 to it, the largest being MONTANA SHARES INC ($5,156). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $729k
What Disability Rights Montana does
Mission
Disability Rights Montana envisions a society where people with disabilities have equality of opportunity and are able to participate fully in community life by exercising choice and self-determination. Because of this vision, the mission of Disability Rights Montana is to protect and advocate for the human, legal, and civil rights of Montanans with disabilities while advancing dignity, equality, and self-determination.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Disability Rights Montana provides other services to assist individuals with disabilities including:Client Assistance Program (CAP):Provides statewide network of services to all client and client applicants of the vocational rehabilitation program.Protection and Advocacy for Beneficiaries with Representative Payees (PABRP):Strengthen protections of social security benefits or rep-payee grant program pays for performance review and monitoring of representative payees.Protection and Advocacy for Beneficiaries of Social Security (PABSS):Provides information, assistance, and advocacy services to beneficiaries of social security seeking vocational rehabilitation, employment, and other services.Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury (PATBI):Provides information, referrals and advice, individual and family advocacy, legal representation and specific assistance in self-advocacy to individuals with traumatic brain injury and their families.Assistive Technology (PAAT):Funding to assist in developing and implementing comprehensive, consumer responsive statewide programs of technology related to assistance for individuals of all ages with disabilities.Protection…
$573,832 spent40% of program spendingProtection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI):Advocate for the rights of individuals with mental illness. There were 416 information and referrals or technical assistance provided, 41 cases handled, and a total of 399 individuals served.
$382,698 spent26% of program spendingProtection and Advocacy for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities (PADD):Provides statewide rights related advocacy representation to persons with developmental disabilities and assistance to related programs. There were 116 information and referrals provided, 75 cases handled, and a total of 181 individuals served.
$300,927 spent21% of program spendingOther program services 4:
$188,900 spent13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,446,357.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.0M to $1.2M (+16%).
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 93% · 2018 88% · 2019 92% · 2020 97% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 96% · 2024 97% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of DISABILITY RIGHTS MONTANA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $12.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 DISABILITY RIGHTS 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
DISABILITY RIGHTS MONTANA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
51% 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 DISABILITY RIGHTS MONTANA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
100% of DISABILITY RIGHTS MONTANA's grant income comes from Montana funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66 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
DISABILITY RIGHTS MONTANA receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DISABILITY RIGHTS MONTANA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$10.6M
- Department of Education$3.0M
- Social Security Administration$1.6M
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 DISABILITY RIGHTS 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
79% 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 DISABILITY RIGHTS 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 DISABILITY RIGHTS MONTANA?
- DISABILITY RIGHTS MONTANA (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,222 to it, the largest being MONTANA SHARES INC ($5,156). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DISABILITY RIGHTS MONTANA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $10,222 in grants to DISABILITY RIGHTS MONTANA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISABILITY RIGHTS MONTANA?
- MONTANA SHARES INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,156 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISABILITY RIGHTS 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.
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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 3 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