Montana · Nonprofit
MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC
MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC (Montana) receives grants from 130 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,184,439 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($4,792,049). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36M
- Funders on record
- 130
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Montana Food Bank Network Inc does
Mission
Our mission: to end hunger in montana through food acquisition and distribution, education, and advocacy. We are the only statewide hunger organization, providing emergency food and increasing food access among needy children, seniors and families in all 56 counties and all 7 reservations, in partnership with our over 330 network partners. With administrative costs of just 4.7%, we are a private nonprofit organization that is the only fully privileged montana member of feeding america, the national hunger organization.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency food distribution - the montana food bank network (mfbn) is montana's only statewide food bank. We work with the national hunger-fighting organization, feeding america, and have developed several programs specifically to address the unique challenges of accessing food in montana. We work with over 330 other hunger-fighting partners throughout the state to improve food access and share information to address hunger and its root causes. Last year we distributed 16,143,311 pounds of food to our network partners throughout montana. Mfbn partners with local emergency food programs, schools and senior centers to feed those who may otherwise go hungry. We deliver food across the 150,000 square miles of montana from larger towns to remote communities and indian reservations that often rely on mfbn to provide most of the food they distribute. We have a number of programs such as the back pack program, school pantry, mail-a-meal and mobile food pantry. The back pack and school pantry programs provide supplemental food for school aged children and their younger siblings on weekends and holidays from school. Mail-a-meal ships emergency food boxes to people in very remote areas of…
$30,702,883 spentof which $29,275,331 as grants$3,110,495 earned by the program98% of program spendingPolicy advocacy and outreach program - in addition to providing emergency food, mfbn works to end hunger through public policy solutions at the local, state, and federal levels. Mfbn works with legislators, government officials and the hunger-relief community to ensure that ending hunger is a priority. Mfbn strives to ensure that public food programs are maximized to support montanans. By collecting information from public and private montana feeding programs and through a biennial client hunger survey, mfbn then educates the public and policy makers about hunger and food insecurity in montana. Data collected from the hunger survey is used to target mfbn's outreach activities for snap (supplemental nutrition assistance program), summer food program and other public food programs. With the addition of a benefit access coordinator, mfbn is also able to provide clients with one-on-one assistance to navigate the complex public benefits process. The public policy program goal is to encourage long term solutions to hunger in montana with both public and private partnerships.
$478,478 spentof which $59,001 as grants2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $31,181,361.
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 2024 to 2025, from $16M to $23M (+47%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 3% · 2022 18% · 2023 11% · 2024 16% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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
Gayle Carlson
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Kevin Condit
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 51 funders, grant income rose $616k → $5.2M.
26 of 130 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 FOOD BANK NETWORK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 130 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 FOOD BANK NETWORK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
50% 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 FOOD BANK NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 19% · 2019 30% · 2020 16% · 2021 54% · 2022 44% · 2023 30% — 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
49% of MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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 FOOD BANK NETWORK INC draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 26 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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 FOOD BANK NETWORK INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK 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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK 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 FOOD BANK NETWORK INC?
- MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC (Montana) receives grants from 130 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,184,439 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($4,792,049). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 130 organizations giving $16,184,439 in grants to MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC, 76 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC?
- Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $4,792,049 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK 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.
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 130 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing