Montana · Nonprofit
MONTANA RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION
MONTANA RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION (Montana) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,484 to it, the largest being AKC FUND INC ($30,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $141k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $133k
- Net assets
- $119k
What Montana Renewable Energy Association does
Mission
to expand the use of renewable energy in Montana
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Education MREA educated Montanans about renewable energy through a variety of means including a monthly electronic newsletter 1600 recipients our annual fair media campaigns and collaborative events In total MREAs education webinars and technical assistance reached over 2000 people in 2025
$34,579 spent43% of program spendingPolicy MREA advocates in local state and federal government affairs with respect to renewable energy Activities include communications with government officials spoken and written testimony communications with the public and media on policy issues MREA also engages with energy utilities on policy matters
$36,728 spent46% of program spendingIndustry Engagement MREA works with its installer members on a variety of topics such as workforce longevity and diversity safety interconnection timelines and other industry issues MREA serves as a convener for distributed energy resource professionals and specialists across Montana
$8,546 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $79,853.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $85k to $119k (+39%).
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.
77% of MONTANA RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Makenna Sellers
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $15k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 RENEWABLE ENERGY 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.
How concentrated its funding is
MONTANA RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
40% 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 RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 57% · 2021 47% · 2022 50% · 2023 67% — broadly stable.
“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
29% of MONTANA RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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 RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MONTANA RENEWABLE ENERGY 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MONTANA RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION?
- MONTANA RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION (Montana) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,484 to it, the largest being AKC FUND INC ($30,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTANA RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $133,484 in grants to MONTANA RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTANA RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION?
- AKC FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTANA RENEWABLE ENERGY 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.
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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 2021–2025), and the filings of 12 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