Montana · Nonprofit
THE WEST MONT FOUNDATION
THE WEST MONT FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc ($5,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $859k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $12M
What The West Mont Foundation does
Mission
The West Mont Foundation is a single purpose foundation which was developed in 2002 to support the operating company, west mont.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
West mont foundation holds all the assets for residential and vocational properties occupied by the clients that west mont serves. The foundation is the major fundraising entity.the foundation is governed by an eight person board of directors. The annual meeting is held in january. Currently two of the directors are also members of the west mont board, so information is always shared between both companies although elections, meetings, minutes, financials, etc., are all conducted separately. The foundation reimburses a percentage of salary for several of the west mont administrative staff for their time spent on foundation activities. Both the foundation and west mont boards participate in the annual evaluation of the company president.
$522,554 spent$514,924 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $522,554.
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.
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 $13M to $12M (−8%).
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: 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
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
Laura Kneedler
President/CEO
Board chair
Greg Pace
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $6k.
From the IRS filings of THE WEST MONT 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
THE WEST MONT FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of THE WEST MONT FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like THE WEST MONT 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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- West Mont · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE WEST MONT 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 THE WEST MONT FOUNDATION?
- THE WEST MONT FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc ($5,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE WEST MONT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,000 in grants to THE WEST MONT FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE WEST MONT FOUNDATION?
- First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $5,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE WEST MONT 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 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