Montana · Nonprofit
MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,752,261 to it, the largest being THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($25,074,200). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Deloitte Foundationshared funders
- Society of Photo Optical Instrumentation Engineersportfolio match
- Wind for Schools LLC Dba Repowering Schoolsportfolio match
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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: 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $8.9M.
20 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 funders by total. 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 TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 27% · 2019 29% · 2020 24% · 2021 38% · 2022 60% · 2023 90% — growing more concentrated.
“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
46% of MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
88% of MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION'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 $4.9M that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside Montana, across 15 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 49 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Deloitte Foundationshared fundersCT · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
- Society of Photo Optical Instrumentation Engineersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wind for Schools LLC Dba Repowering Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Agc Education and Research Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nfpa Education & Technology Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Public and Land-Grant Universitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lanbourn Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Bureau of Shippingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Center for Women and Information Technologyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frank & Susan Huettner Educ Fdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Council of Examiners For Engineering and Surveyingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Montana Community Foundation Incshared fundersMT · backs 75 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
49%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 16 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
- MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,752,261 to it, the largest being THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($25,074,200). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $39,752,261 in grants to MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
- THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,074,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION 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 49funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing