Montana · Nonprofit
MONTANA SHARES INC
MONTANA SHARES INC (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,437 to it, the largest being GIVE BACK FOUNDATION ($5,483). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $63k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $0
What Montana Shares Inc does
Mission
A partnership of nonprofit groups devoted to improving the quality of life throughout Montana.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
TRAINING and TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE:Provide technical assistance, training and coordination of activities in communities and at work places, including electronic pledging campaigns, that in turn support the work of Montana Shares and our member groups serving Montanans.
$60,749 spent43% of program spendingGRANTS TO NONPROFITS: Montana Shares conducts an annual payroll contribution campaign to support the member organizations of our federation. Employees at the work sites have the option of designating their contributions to any of the member groups, to Montana Shares for work with our members, or all of the member groups, or leaving it undesignated.
$56,619 spentof which $56,619 as grants40% of program spendingCAMPAIGNS:Support for our members on a year-round basis.
$23,635 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $141,003.
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 $227k to $411k (+81%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 5% · 2022 8% · 2023 6% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $250 → $97.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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: $122k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Montana Shares Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MONTANA SHARES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MONTANA SHARES 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 SHARES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% 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
91% 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 SHARES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 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
91% of MONTANA SHARES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $550 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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 SHARES 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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 SHARES 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 SHARES INC?
- MONTANA SHARES INC (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,437 to it, the largest being GIVE BACK FOUNDATION ($5,483). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MONTANA SHARES INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $6,437 in grants to MONTANA SHARES INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTANA SHARES INC?
- GIVE BACK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,483 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTANA SHARES 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.
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 3 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