Montana · Nonprofit
WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT
WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT (Montana) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,871,704 to it, the largest being FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($5,750,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.4M
- Funders on record
- 64
- Grants received
- $25M
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What Western Organization of Resource Councils Education Project does
Mission
To support the charitable and educational activities (within the meaning of the internal revenue code section 501(c)(3)) of the western organization of resource councils (worc) a publicly suppported section 501 (c)(4) organization, as permitted by the treasury.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The worc education project made grants to several 501(c)(3) organizations to assist with staff management and membership development, engage members in civic involvement through community boards and commissions, promote clean renewable energy, and provide responsible development of non-renewable energy resources.
$3,360,519 spentof which $3,360,519 as grants$232,347 earned by the program53% of program spendingThe worc education project made a restricted grant to worc to undertake community organizing, public education, leadership, staff development, training and public policy programs.
$2,949,164 spentof which $2,949,164 as grants47% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,309,683.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.9M to $7.7M (+164%).
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.
94% of WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Nancy Hartenhoff-Crooks
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 11 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $4.8M.
23 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 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 EDUCATION PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
50% 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 EDUCATION PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 30% · 2019 38% · 2020 26% · 2021 24% · 2022 29% · 2023 21% — 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
38% of WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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 EDUCATION PROJECT draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT is better cushioned than half of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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
- Western Organization of Resource Councils · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT: 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 WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT?
- WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT (Montana) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,871,704 to it, the largest being FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($5,750,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $24,871,704 in grants to WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT?
- FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT 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 64 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