Montana · Nonprofit
MONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC
MONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC (Montana) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,560,088 to it, the largest being The Kendeda Fund ($730,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What Montana Conservation Corps Inc does
Mission
Montana Conservation Corps (MCC) inspires young people through hands-on conservation service to be leaders, stewards of the land and engaged citizens who improve their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
MCC programs bring together hands-on conservation service in the outdoors with leadership development, civic engagement and workforce training to develop young people as productive individuals and engaged citizens. MCC helps young people develop vital competencies and discover their capacity to lead in their lives and their communities. In 2025, expenses supported three delivery models: 1) young adult crew-based experiences; 2) individual placement models for young adults; and 3)youth corps opportunities for Montana teens. In the young adult programs, members ages 17 and up completed an AmeriCorps term of service of three to nine months. They served on a four to six-person crew or individually in intern or fellow positions. For youth ages 14-18, MCC offered service expeditions of various lengths during the summer, as well as full-summer positions as part of Corps-to-Career Youth Corps crews with federal agency partners. MCC also supported two Piikuni Lands Corps crews and school-based programs in coordination with partners on the Blackfeet Tribal Nation. Through meaningful service projects, corps members cultivated service values and a vigorous work ethic, learned practical job…
$10,488,303 spent$5,833,363 earned by the program87% of program spendingThe Big Sky Watershed Corps (BSWC) is a partnership between Montana ConservationCorps, Montana Association of Conservation Districts, and Montana WatershedCoordination Council. BSWC activates community-based solutions for watershed health and protection. BSWC AmeriCorps members serve with local watershed-related groupsthroughout the state of Montana where they increase the capacity of host site organizations to lead community based, citizen-led watershed stewardship. Home-grown solutions to local watershed issues, on the ground watershed education and outreach, volunteer training, stream restoration projects and water monitoring initiatives make a measurable difference in local conservation efforts. BSWC AmeriCorps members gain practical, professional experience in watershed stewardship while developing skills for project leadership, collaborative management, volunteer engagement, and the role of citizens in leading change in their communities.
$1,623,240 spent$514,363 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,111,543.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.1M to $6.3M (+52%).
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 49% · 2018 46% · 2019 43% · 2020 43% · 2021 39% · 2022 41% · 2023 37% · 2024 41% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of MONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% 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
jonathan mckinney
President & CEO
Board chair
Whitney Tilt
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $204k → $713k.
12 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 CONSERVATION CORPS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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
MONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
55% 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 MONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 35% · 2019 29% · 2020 22% · 2021 39% · 2022 35% · 2023 28% — 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
42% of MONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
MONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $909k 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
MONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC is better cushioned than half of the 58 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 58 civil rights nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $69.7M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$35.1M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$20.0M
- Department of the Interior$14.7M
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 MONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS 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
89% 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 MONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC?
- MONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC (Montana) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,560,088 to it, the largest being The Kendeda Fund ($730,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $4,560,088 in grants to MONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC?
- The Kendeda Fund is the largest funder on record, with $730,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS 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 53 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