Montana Continuum of Care Coalition
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464083599
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Missoula, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4065427001
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $268,623
- Expenses
- $299,354
- Assets
- $28,374
- Liabilities
- $2,273
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JIM MCGRATH (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DAVID O'LEARY (EXECUTIVE DI): $84,950 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of the Montana continuum of care coalition is to end homelessness in Montana through effective leadership and collaboration. (to make homelessness in Montana rare, brief and non-recurring)
What it reported doing in 2025
A continuum of care (coc) is an organization responsible for local, regional, or, in the case of Montana, statewide coordination of housing and services for individuals and families experiencing homelessness. The purpose of the Montana coc is to end homelessness in Montana through effective leadership and collaboration between active and engaged participants who include: non-profit homeless assistance and victim service providers, faith-based groups, city, county, and state government agencies, business, public housing agencies, school districts, mental health agencies and hospitals, universities, affordable housing developers, law enforcement, organizations serving veterans, and currently an formerly homeless individuals. The Montana statewide continuum of care is make up of 12 local districts. Primary functions of the mt coc coalition include 1)coordinating implementation of a statewide housing and service system, 2) outreach, engagement, assessment and prevention strategies, 3) conducting annual analysis of needs and services available in Montana, 4) particpating in the consolidated plan within the coc geographic area and 5)consulting, reporting and evaluation for the emergency solutions grant. The Montana coc also administers and facilitates a collborative process for hud grant applications, establishes priorities for funding projects and measures overall performance of the system. Mt coc coalition also maintains the homeless management information system (hmis)required by the us department of housing and urban development to collect and report data on individuals and families experiencing homelessness. Primary responsiblities are the designating the hmis lead, approving hmis privacy policies, security and data quality plans, facilitating consistent participation of grant recipients and subrecipients in hmis and ensuring hmis compliance.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.9%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 78.9%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.4%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.4%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.9% of revenue deployed · 78.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $236K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $85K · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.