Montana · Nonprofit
MONTANA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP
MONTANA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $656,850 to it, the largest being WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT ($279,850). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $320k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $657k
- Net assets
- $263k
What Montana Public Interest Research Group does
Mission
The Montana Public Interest Research Group (montpirg) is a student directed non-partisan organization dedicated to creating positive change by educating, organizing, mobilizing, and empowering the next generation of civic leaders.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Montpirg creates positive, tangible change in montana montpirg educates and organizes college students through experimental learning and advocacy. We tackle important issues facing montana including protecting our environment, advancing clean energy, empowering young voters, and defending consumer rights. In 2023-2024, montpirg trained student leaders who worked to protect montana's water quality by working to ban certain plastics in consumer goods, knocked on thousands of doors to discuss sustainable energy, and registered thousands of people to vote, providing voter information, and getting them out to participate in elections. Voter engagement registering to vote is one of the first steps to becoming civically engaged and accordingly, one of montpirg's most important goals is its yearly voter registration goal. Each semester, our teams work to make access to registering to vote as easy and accessible as possible. Working throughout the missoula and bozeman communities, we help the thousands of young people have access to the vote. By directly linking candidates and causes with students, mobilizing student voter turnout, and equipping young people with the necessary tools and…
$268,183 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $268,183.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $30k to $345k (+1042%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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
Dean Mcgovern
Executive director
Board chair
Charlie Strom
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $111k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP’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 PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 70% · 2021 78% · 2022 68% · 2023 57% — 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.
Where its funders are
69% of MONTANA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $220k 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.
Organizations like MONTANA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Montpirg Leadership Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MONTANA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP: 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 PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP?
- MONTANA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $656,850 to it, the largest being WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT ($279,850). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTANA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $656,850 in grants to MONTANA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTANA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP?
- WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT is the largest funder on record, with $279,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTANA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 7 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