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Nonprofits in Montana

The IRS recognises 12,334 tax-exempt organizations with a Montana address, rank 38 of 51. 866 of them have a Form 990 on record.

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At a glance

12,334
Organizations recognised
Registration, not activity.
9,799
Recognised under 501(c)(3)
The charitable subsection.
866
With a Form 990 on record
The only organizations with financial figures here.
1084.6
Per 100,000 residents
Census resident population as the denominator.
$12,120,328,374
Revenue reported
Summed across filings, each for a different year.
0.6%
Share of all US organizations
Of 1,964,958 recognised nationally.

Taken from the IRS on September 19, 2026. Address of record, which is not necessarily where an organization operates.

Largest by revenue

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Organizations in Montana by total revenue on their most recent Form 990
RankOrganizationRevenue
1BILLINGS CLINIC$1,225,617,600
2UPPER MISSOURI G & T ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC$906,436,417
3KALISPELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INC$737,487,284
4BENEFIS HOSPITALS INC$626,298,828
5BOZEMAN HEALTH DEACONESS HOSPITAL$534,747,485
6MONTANA HEALTH COOPERATIVE$453,432,307
7ST PETERS HEALTH$383,762,888
8BOZEMAN DEACONESS HEALTH SERVICES$193,188,843
9FLATHEAD ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC$151,661,239
10MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$147,436,078
11MARCUS DALY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION$140,558,344
12BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM INC$135,695,035
13NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION$132,146,649
14LOGAN HEALTH - WHITEFISH$122,954,124
15SIDNEY HEALTH CENTER$118,751,435

The fifteen largest with a filing on record. Organizations without one are counted above but have no figures to rank.

Largest by assets

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Organizations in Montana by assets
RankOrganizationAssets
1BILLINGS CLINIC$1,395,798,536
2BENEFIS HOSPITALS INC$961,989,983
3BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM INC$825,951,196
4BOZEMAN HEALTH DEACONESS HOSPITAL$664,025,168
5KALISPELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INC$550,690,028
6UPPER MISSOURI G & T ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC$537,325,401
7MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$529,070,770
8ST PETERS HEALTH$446,678,284
9FLATHEAD ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC$317,059,300
10BOZEMAN DEACONESS HEALTH SERVICES$209,808,822

Book value at the end of the year, which is what all three forms report.

Highest reported compensation

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Organizations in Montana by reported compensation
RankOrganizationReported compensation
1BILLINGS CLINIC$2,234,126
2KALISPELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INC$1,953,756
3LOGAN HEALTH$1,953,756
4LOGAN HEALTH - WHITEFISH$1,953,756
5BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM INC$1,852,874
6ST PETERS HEALTH$1,527,680
7BENEFIS HOSPITALS INC$1,441,865
8BENEFIS MEDICAL GROUP INC$1,441,865
9MARCUS DALY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION$1,356,605
10NORTHERN MONTANA HOSPITAL$1,292,427

The largest amount an organization here reported paying one person, as reported.

What they do

Organizations in Montana by NTEE major group
CategoryOrganizations
Health Care97
Philanthropy, Voluntarism and Grantmaking Foundations90
Human Services78
Education63
Environment46
Community Improvement and Capacity Building34
Recreation and Sports31
Arts, Culture and Humanities27
Housing and Shelter23
Animal-Related20

Organizations the IRS never classified do not appear here. A code is assigned at registration and rarely updated, so it describes what an organization said it would do.

Nearest by count

States either side of Montana by number of organizations
RankStateOrganizations
37Utah13,072
39West Virginia11,767

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    Every measure the Factbook publishes for this state in one place, each with where it ranks among the others and the record it came from.

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Compared with West Virginia.

Full rankings: largest by revenue, largest by assets, and largest grantmakers, and highest reported officer compensation. All organizations: nonprofits.

What this page cannot show

  • The state is the organization’s address of record with the IRS. A national charity registered here operates elsewhere too.
  • Churches need not apply for recognition, so they are under-represented, and the ones here are those that chose to apply.
  • Financial figures exist only for organizations with a Form 990 on record, and each describes whichever year that organization last reported.

Full method at methodology.

Sources

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