Montana · Nonprofit
WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS
WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS (Montana) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,184,836 to it, the largest being A BETTER BIG SKY ($1,095,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $8.2M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Western Organization of Resource Councils does
Mission
To advance the vision of the democratic, sustainable, and just society through community action. Worc is committed to building sustainable environmental and economic communities that balance economic growth with the health of people and stewardship of their land, water, and air resources.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Research, education, public policy advocacy, leadership and staff development, focused on energy policy impacts in the western united states, economic and environmental impacts of coal mining and transport, and responsible development of oil and gas resources, research and support for local foods and competitive livestock markets, staff training and technical assistance, reaching over 500 leaders.
$6,324,082 spentof which $797,251 as grants$237,246 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,324,082.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.4M to $1.9M (+33%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Deborah Love
Executive director
Board chair
Paula Antoine
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 15 funders, grant income rose $10k → $1.2M.
9 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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: $17M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Western Organization of Resource Councils Education Project). These are real filings, and they are not money WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS raised.
From the IRS filings of WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
87% 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 WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 38% · 2019 52% · 2020 25% · 2021 41% · 2022 28% · 2023 29% — 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
12% of WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M 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 WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Worc Education Project · exempt
- Northern Plains Resource Council · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS?
- WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS (Montana) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,184,836 to it, the largest being A BETTER BIG SKY ($1,095,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $8,184,836 in grants to WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS?
- A BETTER BIG SKY is the largest funder on record, with $1,095,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 42 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