FORWARD MT FOUNDATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

E05

Classification

2000

Street

PO BOX 2817

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

• VOTER REGISTRATION AND MOBILIZATIONForward Montana Foundation registered 8,022 voters, through in-person and online tactics. You could reliably find our staff and volunteers with clipboards in hand registering Montanans to vote at farmers markets, campuses, concerts, and state-wide events. We also knocked on 5,359 doors in a door-to-door voter registration canvass.We held voter registration drives on 20 high school campuses and over 13 college campuses across the state, including public, private, and tribal colleges. Forward Montana Foundation also collected 5,767 pledges-to-vote, and followed up with those voters via text ahead of the primary and general elections. Forward Montana Foundation high school fellows made 7,533 calls to our state's youngest voters.

  Expenses $1,275,675 · Grants $302,500

• LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENTIn 2024, we graduated 17 community organizing fellows and 20 high school fellows from across the state. Fellows go through a robust curriculum that provides weekly training on community organizing and civic engagement. Fellows lead on a final project that connects their interests to meaningful change in their communities.

  Expenses $104,956

• STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACYFoward Montana Foundation launched Civics Unders The Big Sky, an effort to provide Montana communities with trustworthy civic information, approachable educational resources, and unbiased voter registration to give a voice to the future workers and citizens of our democracy. In 2024, we facilitated civic templates in 20 classrooms and hosted Democracy Days voter registration drives in 19 schools across the state.

  Expenses $100,750 · Grants $100,750

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.

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

  $2,615,787

  Expenses

  $1,766,967

  Contributions

  $2,583,014

  Grants paid

  $403,250

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,735,473

  Expenses

  $1,058,583

  Contributions

  $1,726,191

  Grants paid

  $649,408

• 2022

  Revenue

  $936,083

  Expenses

  $597,141

  Contributions

  $934,505

  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

  $548,885

  Expenses

  $800,955

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,155,863

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,386,156

  Expenses

  $809,822

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,181,820

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $568,379

  Expenses

  $389,789

  Assets (EOY)

  $414,352

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $442,989

  Expenses

  $345,189

  Assets (EOY)

  $219,813

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $288,531

  Expenses

  $236,014

  Assets (EOY)

  $119,437

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $216,365

  Expenses

  $185,849

  Assets (EOY)

  $65,628

• 2015 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $127,082

  Expenses

  $133,319

  Assets (EOY)

  $35,663

• 2014 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $195,999

  Expenses

  $182,027

  Assets (EOY)

  $46,179

• 2013 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $113,065

  Expenses

  $133,779

  Assets (EOY)

  $37,286

• 2012 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $181,701

  Expenses

  $128,744

  Assets (EOY)

  $31,874

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

• FORWARD MT

  $649,408

  2023 · PROGRAMS, EVENTS, TRAINING

• FORWARD MT

  $403,250

  2024 · PROGRAMS, EVENTS, TRAINING

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING

  $682,500

  2024 · CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

• ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC

  $500,000

  2023 · GENERAL

• ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING

  $378,900

  2022 · CIVIC ENGAGEMENT & CAPACITY BUILDING

• ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC

  $315,000

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES, CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION & ADVOCACY

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $300,000

  2024 · Health

• TIDES FOUNDATION

  $175,800

  2024 · HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES

• ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING

  $166,645

  2023 · CIVIC ENGAGEMENT & CAPACITY BUILDING

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $151,500

  2023 · Health

• TIDES FOUNDATION

  $106,000

  2022 · HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES

• ASSETS UNDER MOVEMENT

  $91,100

  2024 · General operating support

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

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