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ALTERNATIVE ENERGY RESOURCES ORGANIZATION

EIN 81-0350698 HELENA, MT

Revenue 2025
$692,132
Expenses 2025
$880,216

Program services were 75.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C350
Classification
2100
Street
PO BOX 1558

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

AERO DBA ABUNDANT MONTANA PROMOTES A MORE SUSTAINABLE MONTANA FOR ALL, WORKING AT THE INTERSECTION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY, STEWARDSHIP AGRICULTURE, AND COMMUNITY FOOD SYSTEMS. OUR CURRENT FOCUS IS RE-BUILDING THE BRIDGE BETWEEN MONTANA FOOD AND FARM BUSINESSES AND MONTANA EATERS. WE CONNECT FOOD AND FARM BUSINESSES TO IN-STATE MARKETS AND HELP CONSUMERS VALUE AND FIND LOCAL FOOD, BUILDING DEMAND FOR MONTANA FOOD STATEWIDE. WE ALSO LEAD SYSTEM LEVEL FOOD VALUE CHAIN COORDINATION, BRINGING PARTNERS, SUPPLY CHAIN ACTORS, AND STATE AND COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS TOGETHER TO SOLVE SUPPLY CHAIN CHALLENGES. OUR GOAL IS SIMPLE: MAKE CHOOSING MONTANA FOOD THE NORM ACROSS THE STATE. THIS STRENGTHENS MONTANA'S ABILITY TO FEED ITSELF AND REDUCES ITS VULNERABILITY TO GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY DISRUPTIONS. WE'RE DEDICATED TO FILLING EVERY PLATE WITH LOCAL FOOD FOR AN ABUNDANT MONTANA FUTURE.

  • REBUILDING THE BRIDGE BETWEEN MONTANA FOOD BUSINESSES AND MONTANA EATERS: ABUNDANT MONTANA IS REBUILDING THE BRIDGE BETWEEN MONTANA FOOD BUSINESSES AND MONTANA EATERS FOR A MORE RESILIENT LOCAL FOOD SYSTEM BY: (1) BUILDING CONSUMER DEMAND FOR MONTANA FOOD THROUGH STRATEGIC, MULTI-MEDIA CAMPAIGNS, STORY-TELLING AND EVENTS THAT CONNECT MONTANANS WITH THEIR FOOD AND HELP THEM UNDERSTAND THE VALUE OF LOCALLY PRODUCED FOOD, WHERE TO FIND IT, AND HOW TO USE IT; AND (2) SUPPORTING MONTANA FOOD AND FARM BUSINESSES ACCESS MORE MONTANA MARKETS WITH THE FIND FOOD & FARMS MAP, THE WHOLESALE DIRECTORY, THE LOCAL FOOD GUIDE, PROMOTIONAL AND MARKETING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, AND BUSINESS TO BUSINESS SERVICES.

    Expenses $599,743 · Grants $128,276 · Revenue $301,778

  • VALUE CHAIN COORDINATION & NETWORK WEAVING [JANE KILE, 33X33, SUMMIT, GROW MT, MFEI]: WITH STRONG LEADERSHIP IN MARKET MATCHMAKING AND NETWORK WEAVING, ABUNDANT MONTANA ACTS AS A STATEWIDE ORCHESTRATOR OF EFFORTS TO BUILD COORDINATED MONTANA MARKET INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A RESILIENT, SELF-SUSTAINING MONTANA FOOD SYSTEM THAT WORKS ACROSS THE STATE. THE JANE KILE SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS ENTERPRSIES THAT FEED THE MONTANA COMMUNITY. OUR PARTNER COLLABORATION ON 33X33 MT FOOD ON SCHOOL MEAL PLATES IS BRINGING LOCAL FOOD TO K-12 SCHOOLS. AS THE BACKBONE ORGANIZATION FOR THE 33X33 FOR MONTANA INITIATIVE, CATALYZER FOR THE 2026 GOVERNOR'S SUMMIT ON LOCAL FOOD AND AGRICULTURE, AND ENGAGED MEMBER OF THE GROW MONTANA FOOD POLICY COALITION, WE CONVENE PARTNERS, SUPPLY CHAIN ACTORS, AND STATE AND COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS TO SOLVE SUPPLY CHAIN PINCH POINTS AND CO-DESIGN STATEWIDE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT SHIFTS MONTANA FROM A FRAGMENTED, IMPORT-DEPENDENT FOOD SYSTEM TO A CONNECTED, COORDINATED, RESILIENT, AND SELF-SUSTAINING MONTANA FOOD ECONOMY -- ENSURING THAT BY 2033, 33% OF FOOD CONSUMED IN MONTANA IS PRODUCED IN MONTANA.

    Expenses $64,381 · Grants $27,605 · Revenue $97,500

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • ROBIN KELSON

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $81,941
    From this org
    $81,941
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • ERIN AUSTIN

    DIR OF COMMUNITY PARTNERS/SALES

    Total calculated
    $64,910
    From this org
    $64,910
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • SAMANTHA MCGOWAN

    DIRECTOR OF MARKETING/COMMUNICATION

    Total calculated
    $63,592
    From this org
    $63,592
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • MARY BAUMSTARK

    DIRECTOR OF PHILANTHROPY

    Total calculated
    $58,692
    From this org
    $58,692
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • EVELYN POWER

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • GENEVIEVE BENNETT

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • SOPHIE ALBERT

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • ALEX MUFSON

    VICE-CHAIR/SECR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • AMELIA WHITE

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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
    $692,132
    Expenses
    $880,216
    Contributions
    $484,279
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $650,376
    Expenses
    $676,676
    Contributions
    $423,838
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $507,861
    Expenses
    $576,410
    Contributions
    $357,841
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $422,446
    Expenses
    $448,416
    Contributions
    $384,989
    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
    $338,328
    Expenses
    $279,865
    Assets (EOY)
    $359,173

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $186,849
    Expenses
    $212,260
    Assets (EOY)
    $329,748

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $388,095
    Expenses
    $202,071
    Assets (EOY)
    $237,581

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $244,300
    Expenses
    $244,168
    Assets (EOY)
    $47,758

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $228,128
    Expenses
    $188,306
    Assets (EOY)
    $66,142

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $199,871
    Expenses
    $206,136
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,321

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $139,901
    Expenses
    $143,272
    Assets (EOY)
    $43,669

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $84,308
    Expenses
    $73,644
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,380

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $145,685
    Expenses
    $113,853
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,183

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $154,344
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,635

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

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.