Montana · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK AREA INC
UNITED WAY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK AREA INC (Montana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $303,294 to it, the largest being MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($152,488). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $454k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $303k
- Net assets
- $785k
What United Way of the Lewis and Clark Area Inc does
Mission
Increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another in our community.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
United way of the lewis and clark area offer a donor choice local campaign. Donors can opt to donate to any 501c3 of their choice, including our 30 official partner agencies.
$222,387 spentof which $12,565 as grants60% of program spendingAmounts payable to non-member charitable organizations of donor designated and deemed designated contributions through the state employees charitable giving campaign.
$146,899 spentof which $145,179 as grants40% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $369,286.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.2M to $855k (−30%).
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 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Ryan Fetherston
Board chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $16k → $27k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 UNITED WAY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK AREA INC’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
UNITED WAY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK AREA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
61% 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 UNITED WAY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK AREA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 76% · 2019 100% · 2020 60% · 2021 72% · 2022 45% · 2023 66% — 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
75% of UNITED WAY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK AREA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
61% of UNITED WAY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK AREA INC'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 $119k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK AREA INC
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
Public support
77%
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 UNITED WAY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK AREA INC: 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 UNITED WAY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK AREA INC?
- UNITED WAY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK AREA INC (Montana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $303,294 to it, the largest being MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($152,488). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK AREA INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $303,294 in grants to UNITED WAY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK AREA INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK AREA INC?
- MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $152,488 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK AREA INC 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 10 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