Forward Mt Foundation

Analysis

Forward Mt Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Missoula, MT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Forward Mt Foundation reported income of $1.7m and spending of $1.1m, leaving 39% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $568k to $1.7m (+205%), an average of +32% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 144%. Over the whole period it spent 71% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Forward Mt Foundation sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within MT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation ($1.7m), National Alliance for Eating Disorders Inc ($1.7m) and Delaware Council on Gambling Problems Inc ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $22k (2.1% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $219k. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $87k, net assets of $1.7m. It reported 36 employees.