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Montana Family Institute Inc

Montana Family Institute Inc (Montana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,725,442 to it, the largest being GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($2,302,522). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$867k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$2.7M
Net assets
$1.8M
13/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 72%
01What it does

What Montana Family Institute Inc does

Mission

Montana Family Institute is a non-profit, research, and education organization dedicated to supporting, protecting, and strengthening Montana families.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. At Montana Family Institute, our vision is a state where God is honored, religious freedom flourishes, families thrive, and life is cherished. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, we partner with churches and other organizations to perform research, offer Biblical worldview training, and affect public policy both in the legislature and the courts.

    $621,677 spentof which $380 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $621,677.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($551k) Expenses 100 ($364k) Net assets 100 ($224k)2018 Revenue 106 ($587k) Expenses 74 ($270k) Net assets 241 ($541k)2019 Revenue 90 ($496k) Expenses 121 ($440k) Net assets 266 ($597k)2020 Revenue 178 ($980k) Expenses 100 ($365k) Net assets 541 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 95 ($525k) Expenses 94 ($340k) Net assets 634 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 105 ($577k) Expenses 153 ($557k) Net assets 622 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 136 ($752k) Expenses 146 ($531k) Net assets 708 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 157 ($867k) Expenses 193 ($703k) Net assets 800 ($1.8M)
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Revenue (157)Expenses (193)Net assets (800)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $599k to $1.2M (+103%).

$323k
$582k
$599k
$1.2M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.6M
$1.8M
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 5% · 2021 12% · 2022 11% · 2023 9% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

102% of Montana Family Institute Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (76% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$188k
’17
$317k
’18
$56k
’19
$615k
’20
$185k
’21
$20k
’22
$220k
’23
$164k
’24
4.3
months of
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

Jeff Laszloffy

President/CEO

Board chair

Paul Siblerud

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2017201820192020202120222024
Listed8788999
Joined·+0+1+0+1+0·
No longer listed·10000·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $251k → $276k.

4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 Family Institute 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 Family Institute Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

84%
largest funder
91%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 89% · 2019 63% · 2020 97% · 2021 92% · 2022 97% · 2023 92% — 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 Montana Family Institute Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

94% of Montana Family Institute Inc's grant income comes from Montana funders.

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MN
CA
NC
FL

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

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Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $124k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

Against its field

Montana Family Institute Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 297 social science nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Months of reserve4.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 297 social science nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Montana Family Institute 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 10%Fundraising 1%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

61%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Montana Family Foundation Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Montana Family Institute Inc?
Montana Family Institute Inc (Montana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,725,442 to it, the largest being GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($2,302,522). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Montana Family Institute Inc have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $2,725,442 in grants to Montana Family Institute Inc, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Montana Family Institute Inc?
GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,302,522 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Montana Family Institute 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 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