Montana · Nonprofit
MONTANA WEST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
MONTANA WEST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,500 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $205k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $58k
- Net assets
- $71k
What Montana West Economic Development Foundation does
Mission
The objective of the foundation is relief of conditions of poverty dependency, unemployment, and underemployment in and around the community of flathead county, montana.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The mwed foundation provided assistance to local businesses that increased their strength and success by increasing their knowledge, access to resources, and the ability to engage with their peers.
$140,365 spentof which $139,306 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $140,365.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $9k to $184k (+1846%).
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: 2024 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of MONTANA WEST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Christy Cummings Dawson
President/CEO
Board chair
Scott Nicholson
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of MONTANA WEST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION’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 WEST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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
“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 WEST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 WEST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding MONTANA WEST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$500k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MONTANA WEST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Jobs Now Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MONTANA WEST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MONTANA WEST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION?
- MONTANA WEST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,500 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTANA WEST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $57,500 in grants to MONTANA WEST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTANA WEST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION?
- OTTO BREMER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTANA WEST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing