Montana · Nonprofit
MONTANA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS INC
MONTANA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS INC (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,452,624 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION ($4,452,523). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Montana Rural Water Systems Inc does
Mission
To provide quality services for all water systems, thereby enabling them to produce the best possible product with their available resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
This joint project by the us dept of agriculture farm service agency and the nonprofit national rural water association is designed to help prevent source water pollution in 33 states through voluntary practices implemented by producers at the local level. The program is authorized by sec. 12400 of the 1985 farm bill as amended. Source water is surface and ground water that is consumed by rural residents. According to the nrwa, ground water is the primary source of drinking water for some 44,000 communities in the united states.
$273,107 spent14% of program spendingProvide technical assistance and training to wastewater (sewer) systems in rural communities-municipalities with a population of less than 10,000, water/sewer districts (sewer only), privately owned sewer systems and sewer systems located on reservations. Usda and epa fund this assistance. All wastewater utilities in montana benefit. Usda wastewater, usda decentralized wastewater, epa ww decentralized, epa ww tribal and epa ww training and technical assistance (tta).
$362,554 spent19% of program spendingFunds were used to provide technical assistance and training for all public water supplies. This assistance aids in the sustainability of the utility and compliance with both state and federal agency requirements.usda circuit rider and epa priority area 1: sdwa program (epa water).
$644,339 spent33% of program spendingFunds were used to provide both water and wastewater technical assistance and training. Funds also aided in asset management assistance, funding application assistance, compliance reporting, and work forceforce development. Environmental finance center (efc), apprentice program, epa ww finance and state of mt deparatement of natural resources and conservation (dnrc).
$650,258 spent34% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,930,258.
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 2019 to 2020, from $918k to $1.1M (+23%).
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 75% · 2018 74% · 2019 80% · 2020 86% · 2021 73% · 2022 74% · 2023 72% · 2024 77% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Ben Rigby
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $14 → $1.1M.
1 of 2 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 RURAL WATER SYSTEMS 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 RURAL WATER SYSTEMS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 RURAL WATER SYSTEMS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
MONTANA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101 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.
Organizations like MONTANA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MONTANA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS 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 RURAL WATER SYSTEMS INC?
- MONTANA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS INC (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,452,624 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION ($4,452,523). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTANA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $4,452,624 in grants to MONTANA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTANA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS INC?
- NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,452,523 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTANA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS 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 2 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing