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MONTANA COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION

MONTANA COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION (Montana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $199,875 to it, the largest being First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc ($104,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$126k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$200k
Net assets
$67k
7/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 63%
01What it does

What Montana Council of Economic Education does

Mission

To provide and enhance economic and personal finance education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Conducted big sky biz sim program at schools.

    $18,031 spent
    40% of program spending
  2. Conducted stock market game at schools.

    $15,500 spent
    35% of program spending
  3. Conducted economics and personal finance challenges.

    $11,085 spent
    25% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $44,616.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($52k) Expenses 100 ($52k) Net assets 100 ($62k)2018 Revenue 102 ($53k) Expenses 102 ($53k) Net assets 99 ($62k)2020 Revenue 86 ($45k) Expenses 109 ($57k) Net assets 84 ($52k)2021 Revenue 155 ($80k) Expenses 124 ($65k) Net assets 109 ($68k)2022 Revenue 142 ($74k) Expenses 137 ($71k) Net assets 113 ($70k)2023 Revenue 148 ($76k) Expenses 150 ($78k) Net assets 110 ($68k)2024 Revenue 237 ($123k) Expenses 230 ($120k) Net assets 116 ($72k)2025 Revenue 242 ($126k) Expenses 251 ($131k) Net assets 108 ($67k)
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Revenue (242)Expenses (251)Net assets (108)

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 $52k to $68k (+29%).

$62k
$62k
$52k
$68k
$70k
$68k
$72k
$67k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$228
’17
−$420
’18
−$12k
’20
$15k
’21
$2k
’22
−$2k
’23
$3k
’24
−$5k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Dax Schieffer

Executive director

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $4k → $48k.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION’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 COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

30% 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 COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION.

52%
largest funder
78%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 74% · 2019 71% · 2020 86% · 2021 82% · 2022 51% · 2023 40% — 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

60% of MONTANA COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

85% of MONTANA COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION's grant income comes from Montana funders.

MT
NY
NV

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like MONTANA COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

49%

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 COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION?
MONTANA COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION (Montana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $199,875 to it, the largest being First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc ($104,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MONTANA COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $199,875 in grants to MONTANA COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MONTANA COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION?
First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $104,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MONTANA COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION 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 10 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