Montana · Nonprofit
ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE (Montana) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,862,208 to it, the largest being ORAMEL ASEAGER TUA WELLS FARGO BANK IFS FIDUCIARY TAX SERV ($3,584,194). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $52M
- Funders on record
- 84
- Grants received
- $9.9M
- Net assets
- $78M
What Rocky Mountain College does
Mission
Rocky Mountain College educates future leaders through liberal arts and professional programs that cultivate critical thinking, creative expression, ethical decision making, informed citizenship, and professional excellence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction - higher education program leading to a baccalaureate degree or masters degree in professional studies or liberal arts. Rocky Mountain College serves 850 to 1,100 students per semester.
$31,693,637 spentof which $19,783,891 as grants$39,283,985 earned by the program68% of program spendingStudent services - dean of students administration, student activities, publications, career counseling, financial aid, registrar, admissions, student records (registrar), etc.
$7,977,836 spent17% of program spendingAuxiliary services - student residence halls, dining, bookstore, summer camps, conferences, athletics.
$4,342,646 spent$4,786,926 earned by the program9% of program spendingAcademic support - academic administration, libraries, student advising, academic computing, etc.
$2,283,829 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $46,297,948.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $75M to $88M (+17%).
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 6% · 2018 6% · 2019 6% · 2020 6% · 2021 10% · 2022 7% · 2023 7% · 2024 5% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
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.
Board chair
Rich St John
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 37 funders, grant income fell $691k → $689k.
12 of 84 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 84 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
ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 85% · 2019 15% · 2020 17% · 2021 36% · 2022 37% · 2023 23% — diversifying over time.
“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
45% of ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE's revenue grew 32% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.9M on record — $7.9M federal, $5k state.
- Department of Education$7.9M
- FL$3k
- OR$2k
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 ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 16 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE: 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 ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE?
- ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE (Montana) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,862,208 to it, the largest being ORAMEL ASEAGER TUA WELLS FARGO BANK IFS FIDUCIARY TAX SERV ($3,584,194). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 84 organizations giving $9,862,208 in grants to ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE?
- ORAMEL ASEAGER TUA WELLS FARGO BANK IFS FIDUCIARY TAX SERV is the largest funder on record, with $3,584,194 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE 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 84 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