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FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN EASTERN MONTANA

FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN EASTERN MONTANA (Montana) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,898,953 to it, the largest being FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ($1,534,053). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$1.9M
Net assets
$733k
4/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 84%
01What it does

What Friends of the Children Eastern Montana does

Mission

Friends of the children - eastern montana has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in post-secondary education, serve our country, or enter the workforce. 83% graduate high school or earn a ged, 93% avoid juvenile justice system involvement, and 98% wait to parent until after ther teen years.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Youth in the friends program face considerable challenges, including placement in the foster care system, under-resourced neighborhood schools, homelessness, hunger, and challenges in access to and quality of health care. Despite these barriers, program youth enter adulthood with strong foundations for continuing achievement: 92% go on to enroll in post-secondary education, serve our country or enter the workforce, 83% graduate high school or earn a ged, 93% avoid juvenile justice system involvement, and 98% wait to parent until after their teen years.

    $723,600 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $723,600.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($571k) Net assets 100 ($858k)2024 Revenue 37 ($525k) Expenses 144 ($820k) Net assets 66 ($563k)2025 Revenue 79 ($1.1M) Expenses 167 ($952k) Net assets 85 ($733k)
202320242025
Revenue (79)Expenses (167)Net assets (85)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 $943k to $643k (−32%).

$943k
$643k
$803k
202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN EASTERN MONTANA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$858k
’23
−$295k
’24
$170k
’25
4.6
months of
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

Nina Hernandez

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202320242025
Listed8812
Joined·+0+5
No longer listed·01
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN 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

FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN EASTERN MONTANA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

86% 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 FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN EASTERN MONTANA.

81%
largest funder
87%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN EASTERN MONTANA draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 4 states in all.

MT
MN
OR
CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN EASTERN MONTANA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−11% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 17%Fundraising 7%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN EASTERN MONTANA?
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN EASTERN MONTANA (Montana) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,898,953 to it, the largest being FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ($1,534,053). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN EASTERN MONTANA have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,898,953 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN EASTERN MONTANA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN EASTERN MONTANA?
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN is the largest funder on record, with $1,534,053 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN 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.

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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 2023–2025), and the filings of 13 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