Montana · Nonprofit
MONTANA METH PROJECT
MONTANA METH PROJECT (Montana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,304,119 to it, the largest being GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,048,581). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $406k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $39k
What Montana Meth Project does
Mission
The Montana Meth Project is a large-scale prevention program aimed at reducing first-time teen methamphetamine use through public service messaging and educational outreach. Known for our media campaigns that communicate the risks of Meth use including NOT EVEN ONCE and ASK ME as well as large-scale community outreach programs like Paint the State, the Meth Project is credited with steady declines in first-time teen Meth use, reported by the Office of Public Instructions Montana Youth Risk Behavior Survey. Our Meth Prevention Lesson Video is used by teachers in classrooms and homeschool families around the state, and it is the only Meth prevention curriculum endorsed by the national Red Ribbon Campaign.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Montana Meth Project aims to serve all Montanans as the only fully dedicated Meth prevention program in the state. Our prevention efforts are credited with steady declines in first-time teen Meth use in Montana. In response to the growing Fentanyl crisis, we expanded our program last year to include Fentanyl prevention education.Founded in 2005 by businessman Thomas M. Siebel as a private-sector response to a critical public health issue, the Meth Project has been cited by the White House as one of the most effective prevention programs and a model for the nation in addition to being named the 3rd most effective philanthropy in the world by Barrons in its global ranking.As the solely dedicated Meth prevention program in the state, our efforts are vital to ensuring Montana teens are armed with the facts about Meth. In Montana, it has never been more important to keep our Meth prevention message and outreach front and center. According to the Montana Department of Justices Forensic Science Division, Meth remains the drug most frequently encountered by law enforcement and the largest drug threat in Montana. Additionally, the most recent data from the CDCs National Vital…
$506,557 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $506,557.
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 2023 to 2024, from $246k to $43k (−83%).
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: 2020 17% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of MONTANA METH PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
Amy Rue
Executive director
Board chair
Michael Gulledge
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $165k → $653k.
2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $70k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The Montana Opioid Abatement Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money MONTANA METH PROJECT raised.
From the IRS filings of MONTANA METH PROJECT’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 METH PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 71% · 2019 64% · 2020 61% · 2021 55% · 2022 76% · 2023 78% — 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
50% of MONTANA METH PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
78% of MONTANA METH PROJECT's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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.
Against its field
MONTANA METH PROJECT's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MONTANA METH PROJECT
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MONTANA METH PROJECT: 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 METH PROJECT?
- MONTANA METH PROJECT (Montana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,304,119 to it, the largest being GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,048,581). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTANA METH PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $2,304,119 in grants to MONTANA METH PROJECT, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTANA METH PROJECT?
- GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,048,581 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTANA METH PROJECT 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