Cancer Support Community of Montana
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810542266
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2022
- Location
- Bozeman, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4065821600
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,062,879
- Expenses
- $1,296,941
- Assets
- $1,848,514
- Liabilities
- $12,519
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- K CHRISTOPHER DARNELL (CEO)
- BECKY FRANKS (PAST CEO)
- BRETT EVERTZ (President)
- MATT DEAN (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- K CHRISTOPHER DARNELL (CEO): $79,299 total reported compensation
- BECKY FRANKS (PAST CEO): $59,211 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Cancer Support Community Montana uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities and breaking down barriers to care.
What it reported doing in 2024
We provide comprehensive supportive care addressing the physical, emotional, spiritual, and educational needs of those affected by cancer. We provide a full range of support programs for people in Montana with cancer and their loved ones in a comfortable homelike setting, completely free of charge. We offer support groups, networking groups for people with specific types of cancer, educational workshops, exercise activities, stress management sessions, lectures by experts, and social gatherings all with laughter, joy, and hope. We serve about 700 youths and adults each year with over 5,000 visits to our program. All participants are from Montana and funds stay local in our community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.6%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 56.5%; rating input score 56
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -22%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.43; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.7%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.6% of revenue deployed · 56.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $732K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $79K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.