Montana · Nonprofit
ROCKY MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
ROCKY MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL (Montana) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,248,498 to it, the largest being ENERGY SHARE OF MONTANA INC ($1,371,257). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $20M
What Rocky Mountain Development Council does
Mission
Rocky Mountain Development Council provides a variety of services to low income families and individuals in lewis & clark, broadwater, and jefferson counties in the state of montana.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The head start and rocky mountain preschool programs provide pre-school and daycare services to area residents. The head start program serves approximately 120 low-income children and their families in lewis & clark, broadwater, and jefferson counties. The comprehensive program provides support for children and their parents in the areas of health, nutrition, disabilities, mental health, and transportation. The goal is to help children succeed in education by supporting growth and development needs while engaging the parents in the process. The rocky mountain preschool is a daycare center that serves approximately 50 families with children ages 0 - 5.
$4,231,878 spent$690,041 earned by the program40% of program spendingAging services builds choice, dignity, and engagement of older adults and people with disabilities in partnership with the communities of our six-county area of service. Services include funding senior nutrition programs, counseling beneficiaries on medicare choices, supporting caregivers, teaching evidence-based classes, advocating for residents of long-term care, improving systems to make them more age and disability friendly, and assisting individuals with medicaid, social security, housing, transportation, and home health.
$3,039,656 spentof which $981,858 as grants$4,740 earned by the program29% of program spendingThe weatherization program helps conserve energy and reduce the impact of rising energy costs for low-income individuals through the installation of energy conserving measures in their homes. The low income home energy assistance program (liheap) helps low-income households offset heating costs october 1 through april 30 each year and can provide assistance in no-heat emergencies.
$1,111,165 spentof which $523,357 as grants$21,759 earned by the program11% of program spendingTransportation services, affordable housing services, and senior volunteer.
$2,115,365 spentof which $39,767 as grants$977,710 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,498,064.
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 $16M to $20M (+22%).
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 67% · 2018 68% · 2019 69% · 2020 73% · 2021 75% · 2022 65% · 2023 69% · 2024 67% · 2025 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of ROCKY MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Lori Ladas
Executive director, rmdc
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $212k → $239k.
2 of 11 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 ROCKY MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL’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
ROCKY MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 ROCKY MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 42% · 2019 54% · 2020 38% · 2021 71% · 2022 65% · 2023 79% — 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
56% of ROCKY MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
100% of ROCKY MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Against its field
ROCKY MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 328 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ROCKY MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $36.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$28.6M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$7.8M
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 DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 11 related entities
- Rmdc Eagle Rock Inc · exempt
- Penkay Eagles Manor Inc · exempt
- Eagles Manor Project No 2 Inc · exempt
- Townsend Housing Inc · exempt
- Big Boulder Residences LP · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL?
- ROCKY MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL (Montana) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,248,498 to it, the largest being ENERGY SHARE OF MONTANA INC ($1,371,257). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROCKY MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,248,498 in grants to ROCKY MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROCKY MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL?
- ENERGY SHARE OF MONTANA INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,371,257 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROCKY MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL 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 11 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