Montana · Nonprofit
MCT INC
MCT INC (Montana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $628,766 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM H & MARGARET M WALLACE FOUNDATION ($160,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.4M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $629k
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What McT Inc does
Mission
Empowering children and adults through theatre education and performance to develop lifelong skills while enriching communities worldwide through live productions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
International tour project (red truck tour) - mct's oldest and largest program tours throughout all the states, canada, and overseas to schools and to us military bases worldwide. In the fiscal year ended may 31, 2025, mct conducted 945 weeklong residencies nationally and abroad. Mct's touring actor/directors (tads) tour in pairs, drive signature red trucks and work with a different cast of 55-65 children at each weekly tour stop. Tads come to town at the invitation of a community organization such as a school, parents' group, military base, arts council, youth center and more to transform several duffel bags of costumes and set pieces into a musical for the community - in less than a week. Many of these small communities are rarely visited by theatre companies. A residency entails casting local children in an original children's musical, performed for an audience after an intense week of rehearsals. Currently, mct has 31 touring shows, all based on classic fairy tales. The residency also includes 3 art enrichment workshops. In fiscal year '25, 945 residencies was an opportunity to cast 40,891 children as cast members; teach numerous workshops; perform 1,588 shows; and entertain a…
$3,749,362 spent$4,161,618 earned by the program72% of program spendingLocal children's programs (youth series) - mct offers eight week-long day camps and three six-week performing arts classes which take place at mct headquarters in missoula serving grades k-12. Every child who signs up is cast, and all programs culminate in performances on the mct stage. The eight day camps feature shows in the international tour project repertoire, and the three longer classes are opportunities to stage world premieres and/or more complex shows new to missoula. Additionally, children's programs includes a 2 week-long summer camp on flathead lake for teens (performing arts camp), a week-long summer camp at seeley lake for younger teens (pac prep), and a six-week summer theatre program for high school students called next step prep. Mct also offers six, 1 day "play in a day" classes for days that school is not in session. The number of participants in these programs for the fiscal year were 537 in day camps, 228 in production classes, 175 in performing arts camp, and 129 in play in a day for total participation of 1,069 youths locally! Theatre for young audiences is a program put on each fall by mct actors that is specifically produced for k-8 audiences. Through a…
$857,941 spentof which $5,775 as grants$493,521 earned by the program16% of program spendingCommunity theatre (community series) - mct typically presents a five-show series, including well-known musicals and dramas for general audiences, spanning october to may. Mct produces, directs, and designs these productions in-house. The shows present talented casts of all ages and have many repeat season ticket holders year after year. The final dress rehearsal of each show is presented for an audience, with the admission "price" being a can of food for local charities. Mct also adapts two community theatre productions each year to a sensory friendly format. Mct fundraises to offset the cost of this production so patrons can attend this performance free of charge. The objective is to make the production accessible to patrons that might not otherwise attend a theatrical performance.
$614,551 spent$538,108 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,221,854.
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 $4.7M to $5.5M (+15%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 66% · 2022 31% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. 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
Michael K Morelli
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $44k → $85k.
7 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 MCT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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
MCT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 25% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 MCT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 50% · 2019 61% · 2020 37% · 2021 42% · 2022 44% · 2023 55% — 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
56% of MCT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
62% of MCT 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 $238k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $391k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 MCT 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 9 states
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MCT 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 MCT INC?
- MCT INC (Montana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $628,766 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM H & MARGARET M WALLACE FOUNDATION ($160,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MCT INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $628,766 in grants to MCT INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MCT INC?
- THE WILLIAM H & MARGARET M WALLACE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MCT 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 16 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