Montana · Nonprofit
GREAT PLAINS VETERANS SERVICES CTR
GREAT PLAINS VETERANS SERVICES CTR (Montana) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,921,980 to it, the largest being American Legion Rocky Boy Veterans Post ($2,002,400). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $900k
What Great Plains Veterans Services Ctr does
Mission
Veterans helping veterans for a better future. The great plains veterans service center is the hub for veterans, service members and their families to receive all benefits they have earned in the services to the chippewa-cree people and our country.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The great plains veterans services center provides veterans and their families with direct assistance for a range of activities including assistance with utilities, home renovations, fuel cost, job retention, vehicle maintenance and homelessness. The center also provides assistance with enrolling with the va and applying for va healthcare and other benefits, assisting unemployed veterance find full time employment and ensuring mobility for emergency and everyday needs are met. The center aids veteran entrepreneurs to start small businesses to expand and grow the rocky boy reservation economy.
$1,844,819 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,844,819.
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 2022 to 2023, from $355k to $964k (+172%).
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 14% · 2020 20% · 2021 82% · 2022 86% · 2023 88% · 2024 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of GREAT PLAINS VETERANS SERVICES CTR’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $37k → $1.2M.
2 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 GREAT PLAINS VETERANS SERVICES CTR’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
GREAT PLAINS VETERANS SERVICES CTR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 GREAT PLAINS VETERANS SERVICES CTR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 38% · 2019 50% · 2020 78% · 2021 55% · 2022 88% · 2023 72% — growing more concentrated.
“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
45% of GREAT PLAINS VETERANS SERVICES CTR's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
71% of GREAT PLAINS VETERANS SERVICES CTR's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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.
Against its field
GREAT PLAINS VETERANS SERVICES CTR has grown faster than half of the 1,003 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding GREAT PLAINS VETERANS SERVICES CTR receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$2.3M
- Department of Labor$200k
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 GREAT PLAINS VETERANS SERVICES CTR
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREAT PLAINS VETERANS SERVICES CTR: 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 GREAT PLAINS VETERANS SERVICES CTR?
- GREAT PLAINS VETERANS SERVICES CTR (Montana) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,921,980 to it, the largest being American Legion Rocky Boy Veterans Post ($2,002,400). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREAT PLAINS VETERANS SERVICES CTR have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,921,980 in grants to GREAT PLAINS VETERANS SERVICES CTR, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT PLAINS VETERANS SERVICES CTR?
- American Legion Rocky Boy Veterans Post is the largest funder on record, with $2,002,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT PLAINS VETERANS SERVICES CTR 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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