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Montana Association for the Blind Inc
Montana Association for the Blind Inc (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,754 to it, the largest being DENNIS & PHYLLIS WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ($34,139). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $327k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $77k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Montana Association for the Blind Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to promote self-sufficiency of blind and low vision Montanans.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Summer orientation program - a month-long residency program that brings adults who have lost or are losing their vision into a central location for intensive training in adaptive skills such as mobility, household and hygiene tasks, computer, braille, and more. These skills are vital for people who are blind or low vision to remain active and independent.The aims and purposes of this organization shall be to provide a forum for the educational, social, physical, and rehabilitative improvement of the blind and low-vision population of Montana.
$178,946 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $178,946.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.4M to $1.5M (+13%).
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: 2020 24% · 2023 53% · 2024 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $11k → $19k.
1 of 7 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 Montana Association for the Blind 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
Montana Association for the Blind Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 91% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 47% · 2023 53% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of Montana Association for the Blind Inc's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $155 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.
Organizations like Montana Association for the Blind 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Montana Association for the Blind 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 Montana Association for the Blind Inc?
- Montana Association for the Blind Inc (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,754 to it, the largest being DENNIS & PHYLLIS WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ($34,139). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Montana Association for the Blind Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $76,754 in grants to Montana Association for the Blind Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Montana Association for the Blind Inc?
- DENNIS & PHYLLIS WASHINGTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $34,139 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Montana Association for the Blind 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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