Montana · Nonprofit
DISCOVERY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER INC
DISCOVERY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER INC (Montana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,328 to it, the largest being WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($51,970). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $686k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $63k
- Net assets
- $121k
What Discovery Developmental Center Inc does
Mission
To build a community of early childhood professionals and families dedicated to creating rich and caring learning environments that support all children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During 2025, discovery developmental center provided full and part-day child care and preschool programming for children aged 15 mos. - through 7 years of age. A total of 75 children were served at various times throughout the year, 21 of whom had a diagnosed special need and/or would fall into a "high needs" category due to family income levels and/or living situation, ell, etc. Average daily attendance was 35 children. Programming included 1 classroom for 3 1/2 - 5 year olds, 1 classroom for older 2's & 3's, 1 toddler classroom for 15 months to 30 months olds, and a summer program for 5-7 year olds.
$674,629 spent$563,354 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $674,629.
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 2021 to 2022, from $626k to $735k (+18%).
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 6% · 2018 7% · 2019 6% · 2020 30% · 2021 20% · 2022 35% · 2023 12% · 2024 6% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Devin Saucy
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $500 → $317.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 DISCOVERY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER 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
DISCOVERY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 DISCOVERY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 97% · 2022 62% · 2023 57% — 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
83% of DISCOVERY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $11k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like DISCOVERY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 DISCOVERY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER 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 DISCOVERY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER INC?
- DISCOVERY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER INC (Montana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,328 to it, the largest being WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($51,970). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DISCOVERY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $63,328 in grants to DISCOVERY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISCOVERY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER INC?
- WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $51,970 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISCOVERY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER 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 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