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CATALYST MONTANA

EIN 81-0472423 HELENA, MT

Revenue 2024
$1,433,750
Expenses 2024
$1,246,266

Program services were 67.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R300
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 1509

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

CATALYST MONTANA UPLIFTS LOW-INCOME AND MARGINALIZED MONTANANS THROUGH COMMUNITY ORGANIZING, POLICY ADVOCACY, RESEARCH, AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT. WE WORK TO BUILD COLLECTIVE POWER AND CREATE MEANINGFUL CHANGE ON ISSUES THAT IMPACT OUR COMMUNITIES.

  • MONTANA WOMEN VOTE WORKS STATEWIDE TO EDUCATE AND MOBILIZE LOW-INCOME WOMEN AND THEIR ALLIES TO PARTICIPATE IN THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS.

    Expenses $471,257 · Grants $120,000 · Revenue $3,615

  • EDUCATE, ACTIVATE AND TRAIN MONTANANS TO SUPPORT HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES, INCLUDING LGBTQ RIGHTS AND RACIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE THROUGH LOCAL ORGANIZING, MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS, GRANTING AND ACTIVISM. PUBLISH RESEARCH GATHERED THROUGH LOCAL ORGANIZING AND PUBLIC MEDIA, UPDATE MEMBERS ON MHRN ACTIVITIES, AND PROVIDE INFORMATION TO THE MEDIA ON BOTH FAR RIGHT ACTIVITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS EFFORTS.

    Expenses $370,274

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.

  • SJ HOWELL

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $83,613
    From this org
    $83,613
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • AMBER SHAFFER

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MONA SCHWARTZ

    VICE CHAIR/SEC.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NIKI ZUPANIC

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LAURIE FRANKLIN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • REBECCA JOHNSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ELIZABETH WEAVER

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,433,750
    Expenses
    $1,246,266
    Contributions
    $1,424,492
    Grants paid
    $120,000
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    $0
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    $0
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $578,779
    Expenses
    $1,037,764
    Contributions
    $553,028
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,038,971
    Expenses
    $1,316,825
    Contributions
    $1,034,517
    Grants paid
    $77,500

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
    $2,009,449
    Expenses
    $1,047,458
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,147,959

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,093,036
    Expenses
    $891,313
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,308,004

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,166,671
    Expenses
    $988,938
    Assets (EOY)
    $983,337

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $909,562
    Expenses
    $819,923
    Assets (EOY)
    $799,699

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,138,711
    Expenses
    $766,751
    Assets (EOY)
    $688,297

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $486,211
    Expenses
    $508,380
    Assets (EOY)
    $309,861

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $559,711
    Expenses
    $528,772
    Assets (EOY)
    $331,131

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $545,999
    Expenses
    $459,903
    Assets (EOY)
    $303,728

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $477,843
    Expenses
    $402,697
    Assets (EOY)
    $211,151

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $315,429
    Assets (EOY)
    $74,591

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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.

Declared on its 2024 return

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.