Montana · Nonprofit
WEST MONT
WEST MONT (Montana) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $312,476 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($96,695). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $312k
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What West Mont does
Mission
West Mont has been providing services to people with developmental disabilities since july 26, 1972. Our agency mission is to promote quality of life for individuals with disabilities through growth and independence across all stages of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
West Mont operates a combination of 13 licensed group homes and apartment residential settings located throughout the helena, montana community. During fy2025, we served over 200 individuals. In addition to training for self-help skills (personal care, nutrition and meal preparation, communal living, etc.), West Mont encouraged all consumers to participate in our art club, field day olympics, nordic ski day, and individually designed community-based events (movies, concerts, bowling, volunteering).
$5,197,447 spent$6,641,967 earned by the program64% of program spendingWest Mont has 3 vocational facilities, one day activity (vastt), and 5 pass programs, and provided services for an average of 100 consumers from monday through friday in fy2025. To provide quality vocational services and to generate 3rd party, non-contract revenue, West Mont has developed several opportunities to generate third-party revenue: flower sales, greenhouse tomatoes, pumpkins, bedding plants, farmer's market, shredding, janitorial crew, direct mailing, and a petting zoo.
$2,026,424 spent$3,018,559 earned by the program25% of program spendingSupported services is West Mont's fastest growing program, providing essential residential and/or vocational support to over 80 individuals with disabilities. These consumers either live independently or are still residing with family members. Several have community-based jobs and can use public transportation to commute around the community. Services range from job coaching, teaching interview skills and what is appropriate to wear to an interview, to assistance with medications, meal preparation, medical appointments, and socialization.
$836,686 spent$1,044,447 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,060,557.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4.0M to $5.1M (+27%).
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: 2019 2% · 2020 0% · 2021 17% · 2023 1% · 2024 2% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of WEST MONT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
David Peretto
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $80k → $26k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $166k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The West Mont Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money WEST MONT raised.
From the IRS filings of WEST MONT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 funders by total. 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
WEST MONT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
36% 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 WEST MONT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 43% · 2019 80% · 2020 60% · 2021 67% · 2022 94% · 2023 86% — 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
55% of WEST MONT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
95% of WEST MONT's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $97k 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
WEST MONT's revenue grew 54% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like WEST MONT
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The West Mont Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WEST MONT?
- WEST MONT (Montana) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $312,476 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($96,695). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEST MONT have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $312,476 in grants to WEST MONT, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST MONT?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $96,695 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST MONT 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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