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SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS OF MONTANA

EIN 81-0371541 HELENA, MT

Largest nonprofits in Montana

Revenue 2023
$1,201,668
Expenses 2023
$956,829

Program services were 75.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
900 N MONTANA AVE STE A4

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 · 2023

Mission

MEMBERSHIP-BASED ORGANIZATION OF VISIONARY LEADERS UNITED IN PROVIDING, ADVOCATING, AND CREATING EDUCATION EXCELLENCE FOR MONTANA STUDENTS. SAM PROVIDES LEADERSHIP CONFERENCES, EDUCATIONAL SEMINARS AND PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES IN MONTANA, SO SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS CAN BETTER SERVE THEIR DISTRICTS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

VISIONARY LEADERS UNITED IN PROVIDING, ADVOCATING AND CREATING EDUCATION EXCELLENCE FOR MONTANA SCHOOLS.

  • CONDUCTS WORKSHOPS AND ORGANIZES CONVENTIONS WHICH PROVIDE MEMBERS WITH INFORMATION, TRAINING AND OPPORTUNITY TO NETWORK, ABOUT ISSUES AND LAWS AFFECTING THEIR SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

    Expenses $290,521 · Grants $4,400 · Revenue $268,477

  • PROVIDES SEASONED SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS AS MENTORS FOR NEW ADMINISTRATORS AND TO ASSIST IN LEADERSHIP TRANSITIONS.

    Expenses $217,891 · Revenue $85,000

  • AS A BENEFIT OF MEMBERSHIP, SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS OF MONTANA DISTRIBUTES NEWSLETTERS, DIRECTORIES, SURVEYS AND VIDEOS FOR APPROXIMATELY 1,050 SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS. THESE PRODUCTS AID IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MANAGEMENT SKILLS AND PROVIDE CURRENT DATA FOR MEMBERS TO USE IN THEIR DISTRICTS.

    Expenses $217,890 · Revenue $47,483

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Dr Rob Watson

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $168,375
    From this org
    $153,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,375
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $153,000
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $15,300
    Nontaxable benefits
    $75
    Filer's total
    $168,375
  • Taylor Salmi

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Dale Olinger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Hannah Nieskens

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Shelley Andres

    Past President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Jason Slater

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Barbara Droessler

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Ted Miller

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Dave Wick

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Kelly Kinsey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Kj Poepping

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Sheri Heavrin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Joel Graves

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Julie Hornby

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Sara Novak

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Rhiannon Beery

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Mark Goyette

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Ben Lambert

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Pam Birkeland

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Carol Phillips

    President Elect

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,201,668
    Expenses
    $956,829
    Contributions
    $622,013
    Grants paid
    $4,400
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,082,437
    Expenses
    $1,064,960
    Contributions
    $506,164
    Grants paid
    $7,400

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
    $1,143,797
    Expenses
    $914,758
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,801,307
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,020,486
    Expenses
    $807,091
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,746,392
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,060,118
    Expenses
    $885,092
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,424,846
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $962,463
    Expenses
    $908,764
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,159,543
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $953,530
    Expenses
    $946,796
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,052,229
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $835,589
    Expenses
    $866,806
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,053,427
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $801,430
    Expenses
    $840,240
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,175,420
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,210,597
    Expenses
    $1,000,768
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,026,221
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $776,122
    Assets (EOY)
    $625,988
  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $747,995
    Assets (EOY)
    $758,279

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

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.

Declared on its 2023 return

Declared as related by

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.