MONTANA PRESERVATION ALLIANCE INC

EIN 36-3559965 HELENA, MT

Revenue 2025: $473,600
Expenses 2025: $465,359

Program services were 68.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
Classification: 1000
Street: PO BOX 101

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

THE MONTANA PRESERVATION ALLIANCE (MPA) SAVES AND PROTECTS MONTANA'S HISTORIC PLACES, TRADITIONAL LANDSCAPES, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE. WE ARE THE ONLY STATEWIDE, NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO PROVIDING MONTANANS WITH THE RESOURCES NECESSARY TO PRESERVE OUR STATE'S UNIQUE HISTORY AND CULTURE.

Restoration And Training:Clients served: 208,000 population in communities served statewide.Accomplishments: Facilitated the Preserve Montana Trades Corps pre-apprenticeship training program; rehabilitated the Baxendale Schoolhouse Preservation Center in Helena; stabilized or rehabilitated historic properties in the Helena-Lewis & Clark National Forest, Broadwater County, Lewis & Clark County, Virginia City, Billings and Helena; hosted two hands-on training workshops at the Baxendale Schoolhouse Preservation Center in Helena and a window restoration demonstration in White Sulphur Springs.

Expenses $242,972 · Grants $45,000
Education and OutreachClients served: 50,000 population in communities served, statewide and nationwide Accomplishments: Increased number of Explore Montana app sites; hosted Explore Montana: Hidden Helena architecture tour; distributed quarterly newsletter, monthly e-newsletter and numerous social media posts; and maintained online preservation guidance for Montana audiences.

Expenses $62,220 · Grants $27,514
Technical AssistanceClients served: 1.1 million population of communities served statewideAccomplishments: Technical support, community preservation assistance and building assessments for threatened buildings and local development efforts in communities across Montana; completed rural school technical workshop series in Broadwater County, Meagher County, Flathead County and Carbon County.

Expenses $6,302
DocumentationClients served: 40,000 population in communities served, statewide and nationwide Accomplishments: Completed interpretive panels for Yager Butte Lookout in Custer-Gallatin National Forest, Powder River County; researched and drafted historic designation of Western Clay Manufacturing Company in Helena; and maintained and expanded electronic database of historic schools as part of the Big Sky Schoolhouse Survey.

Expenses $4,881 · Grants $2,900

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

JENNIFER BUDDENBORG

Executive Dir.

Total calculated

$97,305

From this org

$97,305

From related orgs

$0

Other

$0

Hours/week

40
DYLAN YONCE

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
JIM MCDONALD

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
JEFFREY GALLI

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
MARY OLIVER

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
JANICE GOODMAN

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
JOHN MILANOVICH

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
MAC SMITH

Chairman

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
DENNIS JOHNSON-BIGSAM

Vice Chair

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
SARAH ROSENBERG

Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
MIKE SULLIVAN

Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2

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

2025

Revenue

$473,600

Expenses

$465,359

Contributions

$291,634

Grants paid

$0
2024

Revenue

$434,872

Expenses

$425,101

Contributions

$431,720

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$461,510

Expenses

$416,149

Contributions

$460,353

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$428,806

Expenses

$467,659

Contributions

$428,806

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2025	$473,600	$465,359	$291,634	$0
2024	$434,872	$425,101	$431,720	$0
2023	$461,510	$416,149	$460,353	$0
2022	$428,806	$467,659	$428,806	$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

$603,936

Expenses

$403,770

Assets (EOY)

$314,695
2020 · 990

Revenue

$358,491

Expenses

$333,976

Assets (EOY)

$156,172
2019 · 990

Revenue

$254,581

Expenses

$250,556

Assets (EOY)

$140,093
2018 · 990

Revenue

$307,723

Expenses

$325,972

Assets (EOY)

$127,513
2017 · 990

Revenue

$297,053

Expenses

$349,242

Assets (EOY)

$151,221
2016 · 990

Revenue

$347,770

Expenses

$330,787

Assets (EOY)

$210,161
2015 · 990

Revenue

$229,544

Expenses

$286,028

Assets (EOY)

$179,136
2014 · 990

Revenue

$222,254

Expenses

$261,449

Assets (EOY)

$206,621
2013 · 990

Revenue

$238,920

Expenses

$258,362

Assets (EOY)

$235,681
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$488,797

Assets (EOY)

$263,094

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$603,936	$403,770	$314,695
2020	990	$358,491	$333,976	$156,172
2019	990	$254,581	$250,556	$140,093
2018	990	$307,723	$325,972	$127,513
2017	990	$297,053	$349,242	$151,221
2016	990	$347,770	$330,787	$210,161
2015	990	$229,544	$286,028	$179,136
2014	990	$222,254	$261,449	$206,621
2013	990	$238,920	$258,362	$235,681
2012	990	not reported	$488,797	$263,094

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

HELENA AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

$14,000

2022 TO HELP NONPROFITS RECOVER FINANCIALLY FROM THE COVID PANDEMIC
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES

$10,000

2023 HISTORIC PRESERVATION

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.