Montana · Nonprofit
LEWIS & CLARK LITERACY COUNCIL
LEWIS & CLARK LITERACY COUNCIL (Montana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,242 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK AREA INC ($23,742). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $47k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $34k
- Net assets
- $69k
What Lewis & Clark Literacy Council does
Mission
The Lewis & Clark Literacy Council helps adults and their families acquire reading, writing. Math, english language, workforce, and life skills so that they may have an improved quality of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
One-to-one tutoring: our primary program pairs trained volunteers with adults seeking literacy and english language skills. During 2025 we tutored 40 students one on one. We assist individual students in achieving their high school equivalency, obtaining a driver's license, passing employment tests such as those for journeyman and apprenticeship programs, and actively participating in the community. We work with english language learners on specific skills and with conversational english to improve their ability to participate in the community, workplaces, and families. Throughout the year we recruited and trained several new tutors and students.
$7,049 spent40% of program spendingEll classes: we collaborate with the helena school district to offer two ell classes for parents of students in the district. To accommodate work schedules, one class meets in the evenings and the other in the mornings, both held in school buildings. These classes assist 20 students.
$5,043 spent29% of program spendingBook pals program: the book pals program offers elementary school students an additional opportunity for one-on-one supported reading or being read to. It also encourages parents to become involved with reading activities with their children.the literacy council recruits and coordinates community volunteers who engage in reading sessions with elementary students across various helena schools before the start of classes in the morning. During the 2025-26 school year, we assisted in 4 schools, and our volunteers assisted 35 students with their reading skills.
$5,347 spent31% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $17,439.
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 2024 to 2025, from $53k to $70k (+32%).
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 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of LEWIS & CLARK LITERACY COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Janna Cawlfield
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $2k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 LEWIS & CLARK LITERACY COUNCIL’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
LEWIS & CLARK LITERACY COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 LEWIS & CLARK LITERACY COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 84% · 2019 77% · 2020 100% · 2021 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 LEWIS & CLARK LITERACY COUNCIL's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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
LEWIS & CLARK LITERACY COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LEWIS & CLARK LITERACY COUNCIL
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.
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK LITERACY COUNCIL?
- LEWIS & CLARK LITERACY COUNCIL (Montana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,242 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK AREA INC ($23,742). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEWIS & CLARK LITERACY COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $34,242 in grants to LEWIS & CLARK LITERACY COUNCIL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEWIS & CLARK LITERACY COUNCIL?
- UNITED WAY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK AREA INC is the largest funder on record, with $23,742 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEWIS & CLARK LITERACY COUNCIL 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 4 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