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MONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC

EIN 81-0467431 BOZEMAN, MT

Revenue 2025
$13,881,556
Expenses 2025
$13,549,210

Program services were 89.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R99Z
Classification
1000
Street
301 N WILLSON AVE

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 · 2025

Mission

Montana Conservation Corps (MCC) inspires young people through hands-on conservation service to be leaders, stewards of the land and engaged citizens who improve their communities.

  • MCC programs bring together hands-on conservation service in the outdoors with leadership development, civic engagement and workforce training to develop young people as productive individuals and engaged citizens. MCC helps young people develop vital competencies and discover their capacity to lead in their lives and their communities. In 2025, expenses supported three delivery models: 1) young adult crew-based experiences; 2) individual placement models for young adults; and 3)youth corps opportunities for Montana teens. In the young adult programs, members ages 17 and up completed an AmeriCorps term of service of three to nine months. They served on a four to six-person crew or individually in intern or fellow positions. For youth ages 14-18, MCC offered service expeditions of various lengths during the summer, as well as full-summer positions as part of Corps-to-Career Youth Corps crews with federal agency partners. MCC also supported two Piikuni Lands Corps crews and school-based programs in coordination with partners on the Blackfeet Tribal Nation. Through meaningful service projects, corps members cultivated service values and a vigorous work ethic, learned practical job skills, developed as effective leaders and crew members, practiced responsible land stewardship, and made lasting contributions to our communities and environment. MCC conducted over 315 community and conservation service projects in 2025. Projects met community and public lands needs in Montana and surrounding states in the Northern Rockies and Great Plains regions. Projects involved a variety of conservation work including trails building and maintenance, invasive species mitigation, wildfire rehabilitation and fuels reduction, historic restoration, biological monitoring, habitat enhancement, fencing, watershed restoration, and community service. Significant accomplishments in 2025 included improvements to 1,525 miles of recreational trails that enhanced safety and access to public lands, restoration of 8,816 acres including 4,236 acres treated for invasive and noxious weeds, planting 17,568 trees, and repairing or installing 115 miles of fencing to reduce wildlife mortality and improve habitat management. A youth participant reflected: I did MCC and it was amazing. I loved the structure, the work we do, the people we meet, and the overall experience. I learned so much.

    Expenses $10,488,303 · Revenue $5,833,363

  • The Big Sky Watershed Corps (BSWC) is a partnership between Montana ConservationCorps, Montana Association of Conservation Districts, and Montana WatershedCoordination Council. BSWC activates community-based solutions for watershed health and protection. BSWC AmeriCorps members serve with local watershed-related groupsthroughout the state of Montana where they increase the capacity of host site organizations to lead community based, citizen-led watershed stewardship. Home-grown solutions to local watershed issues, on the ground watershed education and outreach, volunteer training, stream restoration projects and water monitoring initiatives make a measurable difference in local conservation efforts. BSWC AmeriCorps members gain practical, professional experience in watershed stewardship while developing skills for project leadership, collaborative management, volunteer engagement, and the role of citizens in leading change in their communities.

    Expenses $1,623,240 · Revenue $514,363

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • jonathan mckinney

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $186,432
    From this org
    $161,368
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,064
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $161,368
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $8,068
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,996
    Filer's total
    $186,432

  • wendy wigert

    vp fin and op

    Total calculated
    $149,957
    From this org
    $132,748
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,209
    Hours/week
    40

  • MARY COCHENOUR

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOY EARLS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GARRICK HARMEL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • COURTNEY NAUMANN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE KENNEDY

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAGE DABNEY

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ERIC LEGVOLD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VIRGINIA MCQUEEN LANEY

    BOARD MEMEBR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARY ERICKSON

    board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Scott Holton

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LIEF PETERSON

    board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WHITNEY TILT

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HEIDI MILLER

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID VAP

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEFF MOW

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $13,881,556
    Expenses
    $13,549,210
    Contributions
    $6,772,415
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $14,988,834
    Expenses
    $14,025,988
    Contributions
    $7,023,131
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $12,425,886
    Expenses
    $11,928,617
    Contributions
    $5,226,836
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $10,116,488
    Expenses
    $9,462,220
    Contributions
    $4,872,291
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $9,071,371
    Expenses
    $7,723,002
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,142,418

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,091,631
    Expenses
    $6,202,273
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,909,032

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,859,830
    Expenses
    $7,787,591
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,852,834

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,438,355
    Expenses
    $7,515,913
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,736,034

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,194,838
    Expenses
    $7,361,101
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,961,744

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,734,673
    Expenses
    $6,615,626
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,943,511

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,298,904
    Expenses
    $6,166,876
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,839,495

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,768,378
    Expenses
    $5,703,720
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,651,061

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,604,288
    Expenses
    $5,365,642
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,651,321

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $5,396,703
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,365,029

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.