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GREAT FLS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY INC

EIN 81-0465605 GREAT FALLS, MT

Largest nonprofits in Montana

Revenue 2024
$9,127,676
Expenses 2024
$4,119,294

Program services were 93.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S430
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 949

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

GFDA'S MISSION IS TO GROW DIVERSE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES THAT ENHANCE QUALITY OF LIFE. GFDA SEEKS TO TRANSFORM GREAT FALLS, MONTANA AND THE SURROUNDING RURAL AND TRIBAL REGION INTO A THRIVING ECONOMY THAT RAISES THE STANDARD OF LIVING, PARTICULARLY FOR UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS AND ECONOMICALLY DISTRESSED AREAS, AND CREATES GREATER ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE, ENTREPRENEURS, AND BUSINESSES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE GREAT FALLS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, INC. DBA GREAT FALLS DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE (GFDA) IS A COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP AND CERTIFIED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTION (CDFI). GFDA IS ORGANIZED AS A MONTANA NONPROFIT 501(C)3 CHARITABLE CORPORATION. IT IS A BROAD PRIVATE, NONPROFIT, AND PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP THAT SERVES THE GREAT FALLS MONTANA MSA AND THE SURROUNDING 13-COUNTY RURAL AND TRIBAL TRADE AREA OF NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA.

  • THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SERVICES THROUGHOUT A 13-COUNTY, 44,000 SQUARE MILE REGION OF NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA THAT INCLUDES URBAN, RURAL AND TRIBAL AREAS. THESE SERVICES FOCUS ON THE FOUR ASPECTS OF THE ORGANIZATION'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY - PEOPLE, PLACE, OPPORTUNITIES, AND TEAM. THE ORGANIZATION'S STRATEGY DETAILED 19 PRIORITIES AND 60 SPECIFIC ACTIONS TO UNDERTAKE OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS. AS PART OF THIS WORK, THE ORGANIZATIONS HOSTS A SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER, AN APEX ACCELERATOR CENTER, A FOOD & AG DEVELOPMENT CENTER, AND A BROWNFIELDS REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. THE ORGANIZATION ASSISTS OVER 700 ENTREPRENEURS, BUSINESSES, AND NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS A YEAR THROUGH ADVISING, TRAINING, AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.

    Expenses $1,508,713 · Revenue $4,303,143

  • THE ORGANIZATION IS A CERTIFIED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTION THAT PROVIDES GAP AND BRIDGE FINANCING TO ENTREPRENEURS, BUSINESSES, DEVELOPERS AND NON-PROFITS WHO CANNOT SECURE ALL THE FINANCING THEY NEED FROM CONVENTIONAL SOURCES. THE ORGANIZATION HAS THIRTEEN REVOLVING LOAN FUNDS CAPITALIZED FROM A VARIETY OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SOURCES. TO DATE, THE ORGANIZATION HAS MADE 209 LOANS TOTALING $72,403,010 THAT HAVE MADE POSSIBLE TOTAL INVESTMENT OF OVER $350,000,000, CREATING THOUSANDS OF JOBS, A NUMBER OF NEW BUSINESSES AND RENOVATED PROPERTIES, AND HUNDREDS OF NEW APARTMENTS. THE ORGANIZATION MANAGES A SEPARATE NON-PROFIT, HIGH PLAINS FINANCIAL, THAT IS A SBA-CERTIFIED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION PROVIDING SBA 504 LOANS STATEWIDE ACROSS MONTANA.

    Expenses $1,714,890 · Revenue $617,119

  • THE ORGANIZATION IS DEVELOPING A HEAVY INDUSTRIAL RAIL-SERVED INDUSTRIAL PARK, THE GREAT FALLS AGRITECH PARK, TO PROVIDE SITES NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE PRIVATE SECTOR FOR BUSINESS STARTUPS, EXPANSIONS AND ATTRACTION. EIGHT COMPANIES HAVE PURCHASED LOTS IN THE PARK. TO DATE, FOUR COMPANIES HAVE COMPLETED NEW FACILITIES IN THE PARK.

    Expenses $524,945 · Revenue $341,179

  • SPECIAL PROJECTS

    Expenses $116,382 · Revenue $2,149,852

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Johnna Lightbourne

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Nate Weisenburger

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Andreas Geranios

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Sherrie Arey

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Reed Bassett

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Glenn Bliss

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Joe Briggs

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Ed Brown

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Mark Cappis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Kylie Carranza

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Jim Dea

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Rebecca Engum

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Stephanie Erdmann

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Shane Etzwiler

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Randy Gilbertson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Dani Grebe

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Rob Haney

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Brett Harris

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Tom Heisler

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Kyle Herda

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Shannon Hoiland

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Dwayne Howard

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Heather Hoyer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Kaci Husted

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Tracy Jerman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

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
    $9,127,676
    Expenses
    $4,119,294
    Contributions
    $1,716,382
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $9,946,706
    Expenses
    $4,315,755
    Contributions
    $2,026,003
    Grants paid
    $171,484
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,654,586
    Expenses
    $3,976,349
    Contributions
    $2,926,642
    Grants paid
    $95,725

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
    $5,045,202
    Expenses
    $3,464,348
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,433,536
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,629,023
    Expenses
    $2,644,612
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,421,780
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,071,297
    Expenses
    $2,829,221
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,341,861
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,852,637
    Expenses
    $2,637,904
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,102,402
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,192,813
    Expenses
    $3,351,041
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,315,596
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,320,296
    Expenses
    $1,315,260
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,391,495
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,113,545
    Expenses
    $1,412,939
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,275,415
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,565,461
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,746,293
  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,431,969
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,575,658
  • 2010 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,258,108
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,193,263

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

  • NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC OF GREAT FALLS DBA NEIGHBORWORKS GF

    $171,484

    2023 BAATZ BUILDING RESTORATION

  • 2022 ASBESTOS ABATEMENT OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN BUILDING

  • GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS

    $38,764

    2022 ASBESTOS ABATEMENT AT LINCOLN ELEMENTARY AND EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

  • GREAT FALLS AGRITECH PARK LLC

    DEVELOPMENT OF HEAVY INDUSTRIAL PARK · MT · income $801,707 · assets $141,443

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.