Montana · Nonprofit
MONTANA INDEPENDENT LIVING PROJECT INC
MONTANA INDEPENDENT LIVING PROJECT INC (Montana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,059 to it, the largest being HAUSER LAKE HOME ($77,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $141k
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Montana Independent Living Project Inc does
Mission
Ability montana's mission is to promote independence and advocate for people with disabilities. Guided by our values of empowerment, advocacy and community, we offer programs and resources encompassed around the five core services of centers for independent living: information and referral, independent living skills training, peermentoring, individual and systems advocacy, and transition services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Providing counseling and accessibility services to enable individuals with disabilities to live independently. Ability montana provides information to the general public regarding issues affecting the disabled.
$10,457,639 spent$10,848,876 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,457,639.
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 2024 to 2025, from $4.4M to $5.8M (+31%).
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 9% · 2018 12% · 2019 10% · 2020 11% · 2021 21% · 2022 8% · 2023 7% · 2024 7% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Scott Birkenbuel
CEO
Board chair
Mike Batista
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $18k → $10k.
1 of 8 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 INDEPENDENT LIVING PROJECT 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 INDEPENDENT LIVING PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 63% · 2019 67% · 2020 96% · 2021 83% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — 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
33% of MONTANA INDEPENDENT LIVING PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
80% of MONTANA INDEPENDENT LIVING PROJECT 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. $59 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.
Government funding MONTANA INDEPENDENT LIVING PROJECT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.4M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$100k
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 INDEPENDENT LIVING PROJECT 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MONTANA INDEPENDENT LIVING PROJECT 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 INDEPENDENT LIVING PROJECT INC?
- MONTANA INDEPENDENT LIVING PROJECT INC (Montana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,059 to it, the largest being HAUSER LAKE HOME ($77,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTANA INDEPENDENT LIVING PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $141,059 in grants to MONTANA INDEPENDENT LIVING PROJECT INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTANA INDEPENDENT LIVING PROJECT INC?
- HAUSER LAKE HOME is the largest funder on record, with $77,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTANA INDEPENDENT LIVING PROJECT 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 8 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