Montana · Nonprofit
MIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES INC
MIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES INC (Montana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,036,500 to it, the largest being STRATEGIC VICTORY FUND ($399,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $610k
What Middle Fork Strategies Inc does
Mission
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As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Engaged in a campaign to educate montanans about proposed legislation to amend the state constitution, and how members of the legislature voted on proposals. This consisted primarily of flyers and digital advertisements.
$87,007 spent19% of program spendingLaunched a campaign to educate montanans about issues relating to property taxes and housing prices in the state. Consisted of online ads and a website with a calculator to allow homeowners to review potential increases to their tax bills.
$157,647 spent34% of program spendingBegan an ongoing program of conducting opinion research on key issues and policies affecting montana. The results are released publicly online to provide insight into citizen views on issues like housing policy, healthcare, education, and others.
$78,000 spent17% of program spendingAdditional program services salaries and research activities.
$142,651 spent31% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $465,305.
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.
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 $418k to $618k (+48%).
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.
100% of MIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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
Brandon Demars
Executive director
Board chair
Stacie Anderson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 MIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES INC’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
MIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
100% 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 MIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES INC.
“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
MIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES INC draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 5 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $425k 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
MIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES INC?
- MIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES INC (Montana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,036,500 to it, the largest being STRATEGIC VICTORY FUND ($399,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $2,036,500 in grants to MIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES INC?
- STRATEGIC VICTORY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $399,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 8 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