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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.

$454k
Revenue FY2023
10
Funders on record
$303k
Grants received
$785k
Net assets
6/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($690k)2018 Revenue 96 ($1.1M) Expenses 99 ($1.2M) Net assets 85 ($586k)2019 Revenue 83 ($975k) Expenses 75 ($926k) Net assets 92 ($637k)2020 Revenue 92 ($1.1M) Expenses 80 ($984k) Net assets 106 ($734k)2021 Revenue 71 ($835k) Expenses 65 ($804k) Net assets 141 ($976k)2022 Revenue 61 ($713k) Expenses 53 ($658k) Net assets 130 ($897k)2023 Revenue 39 ($454k) Expenses 43 ($535k) Net assets 114 ($785k)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (39)Expenses (43)Net assets (114)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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.

$56k
17
$85k
18
$49k
19
$95k
20
$32k
21
$55k
22
$80k
23
4.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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.

50%
largest funder
81%
top three
~3
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like UNITED WAY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK AREA INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Montana

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 10%Fundraising 21%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing