Montana · Nonprofit
RURAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE
RURAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE (Montana) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,462,619 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($645,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $815k
What Rural Behavioral Health Institute does
Mission
Our mission is to reduce suicide among youth by building a school-based mental health system in rural America that includes universal mental health screening and robust mental health services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
RBHI's major accomplishments for the 2024-2025 school year include: Delivered school-based suicide prevention program over 18,000 times to students (grades 6-12) in Montana.Piloted our program in schools in three new states, serving more than 2300 students (grades 3-12): Georgia, Illinois, and Oregon.Developed and piloted an adapted suicide prevention program for younger students (grades 3+), with over 1250 deliveries in Georgia and Montana.Found statistically significant reductions in new suicidality and depression/anxiety symptoms among repeat student participants.Delivered over 1000 psychiatric or therapy appointments to youth.
$1,550,523 spent$1,048,433 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,550,523.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $212k to $808k (+282%).
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: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of RURAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Janet Lindow Phd
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $265k → $502k.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 RURAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE’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
RURAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
52% 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 RURAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 38% · 2022 39% · 2023 46% — 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.
Where its funders are
52% of RURAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE'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 $1.2M that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside Montana, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
RURAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding RURAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$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 RURAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 RURAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE: 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 RURAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE?
- RURAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE (Montana) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,462,619 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($645,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RURAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $2,462,619 in grants to RURAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RURAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $645,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RURAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 20 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