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MONTANA POLICE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION

MONTANA POLICE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being L HEART FOUNDATION INC ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$462k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$1.2M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Montana Police Protective Association does

Mission

The Montana Police Protective Association serves and supports montana law enforcement by advocating for officers, providing training, assisting police families, and giving back to the communities they protect.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Fraternal activities - ongoing membership committees, meetings, and annual convention necessary to strengthen the common bond and fraternal nature of the organization in a state as diverse and sparsely populated as montana.

    $286,865 spentof which $15,000 as grants
    85% of program spending
  2. Life insurance benefit - a life insurance policy is provided for each member officer. Death benefit payments to covered member officer or family.

    $20,000 spent
    6% of program spending
  3. Promoting the organizations fundamentals and beliefs throughout the state.

    $29,123 spent
    9% of program spending
  4. Legislative activities - the legislative committee monitors and follows all bills applicable and testifies as to mppa officers position. A lobbyist is also employed.

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $335,988.

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 ($314k) Expenses 100 ($309k) Net assets 100 ($774k)2018 Revenue 119 ($375k) Expenses 106 ($326k) Net assets 107 ($830k)2019 Revenue 107 ($336k) Expenses 126 ($388k) Net assets 102 ($786k)2020 Revenue 113 ($356k) Expenses 117 ($362k) Net assets 100 ($777k)2021 Revenue 123 ($386k) Expenses 97 ($299k) Net assets 120 ($933k)2022 Revenue 121 ($379k) Expenses 118 ($363k) Net assets 112 ($869k)2023 Revenue 132 ($416k) Expenses 99 ($307k) Net assets 126 ($973k)2024 Revenue 138 ($432k) Expenses 119 ($368k) Net assets 138 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 147 ($462k) Expenses 130 ($403k) Net assets 150 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (147)Expenses (130)Net assets (150)

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 $779k to $935k (+20%).

$777k
$833k
$795k
$779k
$935k
$872k
$976k
$1.1M
$1.2M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’17
$49k
’18
−$52k
’19
−$6k
’20
$87k
’21
$15k
’22
$109k
’23
$64k
’24
$59k
’25
5.1
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

Daniel Smith

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.

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Listed79101110881011
Joined·+2+3+3+0+0+3+5+4
No longer listed·02212333
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of MONTANA POLICE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION’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.

Where its funders are

100% of MONTANA POLICE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Montana funders.

MT

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 POLICE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION

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.

Governance

9
board members
67%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Montana Police Protective Association Foundation Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds MONTANA POLICE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION?
MONTANA POLICE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being L HEART FOUNDATION INC ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MONTANA POLICE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,000 in grants to MONTANA POLICE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION.
Who is the largest funder of MONTANA POLICE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION?
L HEART FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MONTANA POLICE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION 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 1 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