Montana · Nonprofit
HELP CENTER INC
HELP CENTER INC (Montana) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,808,841 to it, the largest being ONE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,255,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $6.6M
What Help Center Inc does
Mission
The mission of the Help Center, Inc. is to provide information, outreach, direct services, advocacy, crisis counseling, and therapy to clientele in a safe, confidential environment. The intent is to assist clients in gaining insight, clarity, empowerment, client centered solutions, and life improvement in the wake of life's difficulties and in the aftermath of traumatic events.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The help center program (hc) provides 24/7 suicide/crisis counseling and follow-up, and resource information/referral to callers from these 13 montana counties: gallatin, park, meagher, sweet grass, wheatland, broadwater, jefferson, madison, beaverhead, silver bow, deer lodge, granite and powell counties. Additionally, the hc is open to client walk-ins and provides suicide prevention/intervention education to these communities as well as free ongoing counseling to those who cannot afford it elsewhere. The help center program operates both the 211 and the 988 lines for those 13 counties. In 2025 the help center program had 15,736 direct service contacts and provided 190 in-person and 147 telehealth/telephonic free mental health counseling sessions.
$1,277,193 spent$15,070 earned by the program54% of program spendingSacks thrift, located in downtown bozeman, continues to provide support for the programs of Help Center Inc. As well as maintaining a voucher system for those in need or affected by disaster to obtain emergency clothing and household items. They provide reuse-recycle services for the area through their innovative thrift store practices. In 2025 sacks provided 832 vouchers to our community members in need who redeemed them for over $39,000 in essential merchandise/items.
$338,511 spent14% of program spendingOn the mental health campus, which was purchased in 2024 we are nearing completion of repairs and renovations. We are now within weeks of having all our programs except the sacks thrift store co-located on this campus. We are maintaining the important community asset of 10 affordable housing units designated for community members with serious disabling mental illness and all units have been repaired and are now fully occupied.
$219,590 spent9% of program spendingThe gallatin county child advocacy center (cac) provides medical, legal, and personal advocacy, long- and short-term child and trauma specific individual and family counseling, medical and legal outreach and coordination, civil/legal services including safety planning, parenting plan assistance, coordination and scheduling of multidisciplinary forensic interviews and follow ups and multiple client centered assessments (trauma, suicide) for child victims of sexual and interpersonal violence and their families. In 2025, 293 in-person clients (161 children & 132 concerned others) as well as 14 children and 11 concerned other clients through telehealth/telephonic were provided with the full range of services including 140 forensic interviews, 21 hospital outreaches consisting of 14 forensic medical exams, 237 suicide screenings and 397 free, child centered, trauma-based counseling sessions.
$204,747 spent9% of program spendingHearts & homes (h&h) provides supervised family visitation, custody exchange, visit coaching, therapeutic interventions and parenting classes. In 2025, ending on june 30th, h&h provided 313 hours of family visitation and visit coaching. 25 parents took part in classes and services. In fy25-26, the experienced staff of hearts & homes will be assisting the gallatin casa/gal program to take over the visitation services of hearts & homes. Childrens services, including parenting classes will be moved under other Help Center Inc. Programs.
$166,686 spent$74,283 earned by the program7% of program spendingThe sexual assault counseling center (sacc) provides medical, legal and personal advocacy, long- and short-term trauma based counseling and therapies, case and resource management, medical and legal outreach, visa consultation, human trafficking identification, consultation and outreach, follow-ups and additional brief interventions like suicide and trauma assessments to people who have experienced sexual and interpersonal victimization and their concerned others. In 2025, sacc provided 144 in-person and 281 telehealth/telephonic clients with the full range of services including 61 hospital outreaches consisting of 60 forensic exams, 138 suicide screenings and 786 free, trauma-based counseling sessions.
$146,096 spent6% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,352,823.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.3M to $7.5M (+223%).
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 25% · 2018 29% · 2019 31% · 2020 29% · 2021 38% · 2022 32% · 2023 41% · 2024 18% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of HELP CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% 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.
Chief executive
Christina Powell
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $53k → $1.6M.
11 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 HELP CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 funders by total. 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
HELP CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
72% 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 HELP CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 64% · 2019 62% · 2020 48% · 2021 43% · 2022 42% · 2023 74% — 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.
How long its funders stay
60% of HELP CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
52% of HELP 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 $1.8M that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
HELP CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HELP CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.5M
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 HELP 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HELP CENTER INC?
- HELP CENTER INC (Montana) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,808,841 to it, the largest being ONE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,255,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HELP CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $3,808,841 in grants to HELP CENTER INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELP CENTER INC?
- ONE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,255,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELP 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 45 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