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MONTANA TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION

EIN 81-0385019 HELENA, MT

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Revenue 2024
$515,159
Expenses 2024
$494,910

Program services were 74.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
06
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 838

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE NBSP;MONTANA NBSP;TRIAL NBSP;LAWYERS NBSP;ASSOCIATION NBSP;IS NBSP;A NBSP;MEMBER NBSP;ORGANIZATION NBSP;FOR NBSP;MONTANA NBSP;ATTORNEYS NBSP;WHO NBSP;REPRESENT NBSP;LITIGANTS NBSP;TO NBSP;SECURE NBSP;A NBSP;JUST NBSP;RESULT NBSP;FOR NBSP;THE NBSP;INJURED NBSP;AND NBSP;THOSE NBSP;WHOSE NBSP;RIGHTS NBSP;ARE NBSP;JEOPARDIZED

Activities or mission (Part I)

A MEMBER ORGANIZATION FOR MONTANA ATTORNEYS WHO REPRESENT LITIGANTS.

  • MONTANA TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION SPONSORS PREMIER CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION SEMINARS. IT ALSO ACTIVELY INFORMS EDUCATES AND LOBBIES ELECTED OFFICIALS TO PRESERVE THE CIVIL JURY TRIAL SYSTEM AND ON OTHER ISSUES OF CONCERN TO ITS MEMBERS AND THEIR CLIENTS.

    Expenses $91,992 · Revenue $164,917

  • MONTANA TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION PROVIDES SUPPORT AND SERVICES TO HELP ENABLE ITS MEMBERS TO EXCEL IN THEIR PROFESSION AND IN THEIR SERVICE TO CLIENTS.

    Expenses $275,980 · Revenue $279,004

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Allen Smtih

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $128,984
    From this org
    $128,984
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Anders Blewett

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Hillary P Carls

    PRESIDENT-AAJ DELEGATE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Domenic Cossi

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • E Kiel Duckworth

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Patrick Fox

    EX OFFICIO - EX PRES

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Heenan

    EX OFFICIO - EX PRES

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tanis Holm

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Anthony Jackson

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dustin Leftridge

    SECRETARY-TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jenna Lyons

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jinnifer Mariman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael J McKeon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Veronica Procter

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Justin R Starin

    PRESIDENT-ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Keif Storrar

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Samantha Travis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nathan Wagner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mark Kovacich

    AAJ GOVERNOR-EX OFFICIO-EX PRES

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • J Ben Everett

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Justin Staples

    EX OFFICIO-EX PRES

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stacy Tempel-St John

    EX OFFICIO-EX PRES

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sydney Best

    OUSTANDING NEW LAWYER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • William Rossbach

    AAJ GOVERNOR EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Caitlin Boland Aarab

    AAJ GOVERNOR-REJUV

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $515,159
    Expenses
    $494,910
    Contributions
    $350,004
    Grants paid
    $2,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $464,369
    Expenses
    $430,059
    Contributions
    $285,180
    Grants paid
    $3,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $607,585
    Expenses
    $568,566
    Contributions
    $439,261
    Grants paid
    $134,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $417,476
    Expenses
    $428,308
    Assets (EOY)
    $206,170
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $416,451
    Expenses
    $365,372
    Assets (EOY)
    $225,156
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $390,651
    Expenses
    $326,432
    Assets (EOY)
    $175,262
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $388,062
    Expenses
    $405,440
    Assets (EOY)
    $108,627
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $393,816
    Expenses
    $411,096
    Assets (EOY)
    $122,665
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $373,635
    Expenses
    $390,479
    Assets (EOY)
    $142,267
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $383,995
    Expenses
    $371,305
    Assets (EOY)
    $159,713
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $357,796
    Expenses
    $363,186
    Assets (EOY)
    $145,649
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $349,172
    Expenses
    $342,143
    Assets (EOY)
    $149,642
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $342,101
    Assets (EOY)
    $142,922

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

  • MONTANANS FOR LIBERTY & JUSTICE

    $132,500

    2022

  • MONTANA DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    $1,500

    2022

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.