2024-06-19T16:41:48-05:00 2023-12-31 450250958 Eide Bailly LLP 800 Nicollet Mall Ste 1300 Minneapolis MN 554027033 990 2023-01-01 900356146 Montana On A Mission MONT 4063210241 PO Box 696 Big Timber MT 59011 Mery Donald President 4063210241 2024-06-18 1 Mery Donald 999009999 1 Heidi Sachs P01273512 6122536500 2024-06-18 2 AAL1 IAL1 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z Mery Donald PO Box 1056 Melville MT 59055 180439 0 X montanaonamission.org X 2008 MT Montana on a Mission exists to encourage people to live out the love of Jesus Christ 5 5 0 270 0 0 164030 165814 0 0 853 8480 0 -1717 164883 172577 119286 112808 0 0 0 0 0 0 1749 8192 8832 127478 121640 37405 50937 364914 415851 0 0 364914 415851 X Montana on a Mission exists to encourage people to live out the love of Jesus Christ. 1 0 117566 112808 Homeward Bound 2023 was a great success. The statistics tell the story of the generosity of our community and volunteers. Our volunteers ranged in age between 2 and 92, completing a wide variety of projects. Cookies were baked, breakfast was prepared and served, concrete was poured, stone flower beds were constructed, ramps were repaired and repainted, windows were washed, yards were cleaned and literally tons of trash was taken to our transfer station. These are some of the projects completed by the organization in 2023. Montana*133 local projects were completed by more than 204 volunteers during our 9th year of Homeward Bound, comprising an estimated 1185 hours of volunteer service.*Partnered with other local businesses and nonprofits to provide time and funds for making holiday food baskets for 171 families in need.*Provided 35 backpacks and school supplies to students and teachers in need through our Backpack to School program. Philippines*The school lunch program provides the entire school with healthy lunches and employs five local women to manage the program and cook for the children.*The Family Christian Fellowship celebrated their 19th year with a Thanksgiving celebration for the entire community. The church completed a major renovation to replace the roof and make more room for the growing congregation.*Financially supported a local missionary monthly.*Montana on a Mission local Philippines manager conducts and oversees numerous Bible study groups and, at the request of the local government, instructs government employees in Biblical "moral values" classes. Kenya* New lunch program at Lower Oloosekin primary school, fed 75 students and their teachers a hot, nutritious lunch daily.*Built kitchen for the lunch program at Lower Oloosekin.*We continue to partner with the school to provide learning materials, textbooks, and playground equipment.* Installed our first water token kiosk. This technology allows community members to fetch water from the kiosk, paying a very small fee each month that goes into an account for the community. They will then have money for maintenance and repairs of the project as well as saving money for other community projects, such as schools!*We continue to manage and maintain 14 community water projects, training the communities to care for and perform routine borehole maintenance such as cleaning and flushing the storage tanks. And of course, there are always repairs of security fences, older troughs and tap stands, solar and electrical repairs, pump and pipe repairs or replacements.*More than 35,000 people now have access to clean water every day and 8 schools now have clean water onsite. We continue to survey additional communities that do not have access to clean water as well as clean and maintain the existing boreholes and protected spring water projects.*MOM continues to show the love of Jesus and to share the Gospel through Bible distribution; both written native language Bibles and audio native language Bibles, the Jesus Film, and digital resource distribution, as well as working with local churches. Romania and Ukraine* Provided funds to repair a community well that was drilled and funded by MOM in 2020.* Provided financial support to an organization assisting people in areas destroyed by bombing inside Ukraine. 117566 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 X Marie Cowen 4069325637 PO Box 696 Big Timber MT 59055 X Mery Donald President 5.00 X X 0 0 0 Yancy Terland Secretary 2.00 X X 0 0 0 Marie Cowen Treasurer 2.00 X X 0 0 0 Dennis Freed Board Member (Jan-Aug) 1.00 X 0 0 0 Allan Rickert Board Member (Jan-Sept) 1.00 X 0 0 0 Bryan Baker Board Member 2.00 X 0 0 0 Coralie Carter Board Member (Oct-Dec) 2.00 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11930 153884 165814 8480 8480 6145 11930 7862 -1717 -1717 172577 0 0 6763 18988 18988 93820 93820 1575 1575 1749 1749 2634 2634 2124 2124 750 750 121640 117566 2325 1749 364914 415851 364914 415851 0 0 X 0 0 0 0 364914 415851 364914 415851 364914 415851 50937 0 X 0 0 0 X 224347 233394 228593 164030 165814 1016178 224347 233394 228593 164030 165814 1016178 76986 939192 477 72 853 8480 9882 1026060 2640 0.91530 0.91360 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 1 East Asia and the Pacific - Australia, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, 0 0 Program Services Food program for Philippines students along with ministry and educational supplies 31000 Sub-Saharan Africa - Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, 0 0 Program Services Montana on a Mission contracts with local companies to drill water wells, then purchases equipment and solar panels to complete the project. A school has been built and is supported with all needs including with a nutritious lunch program. 51000 Russia and Neighboring States - Armenia, Azerbijan, Belarus, 0 0 Program Services Montana on a Mission provided disaster relief for refugees of Ukraine 5000 Europe 0 0 Program Services Water for Romania 8000 0 0 0 0 0 0 95000 0 95000 Feeding Program-Philippines East Asia and the Pacific - Australia, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, 500 27525 Food Support, Lunch Program FMV Water 4 Life Sub-Saharan Africa - Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, 30000 50554 Maintaining and providing clean water from wells, hygiene education, school education, and lunch program FMV Ministry Needs East Asia and the Pacific - Australia, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, 200 3039 School supplies, Community care FMV Disaster Relief Russia and the newly Independent States 5000 5050 Emergency Food Support FMV Romania Well Europe 250 7650 Clean water well for agriculture development FMV 0 0 0 0 0 0 Part III, Col (c): The number of recipients is based on the actual recipients receiving items. Cow Country Jamboree 8510 6910 1600 200 2000 133 Golf Night 7205 4755 2450 100 3860 15715 11665 4050 100 200 3860 2000 133 6293 -2243 1 Homeward Bound 339 18988 FMV Food, gas, emergency assistance, backpacks, project assistance within the community Part I, Line 2: The organization does not conduct any monitoring of the use of grant funds once they are distrbuted. Form 990, Part III, line 2 We started an education/lunch program in Kenya. Feeding 70 students. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 8b There are no Committees within Montana On a Mission. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b A copy is emailed to each member. Review will be accomplished via email conversation. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c a. An interested person may make a presentation at the board or committee meeting, but after such presentation, he/she shall leave the meeting during the discussion of, and the vote on, the transaction or arrangement involving the possible conflict of interest. b. The chairperson of the board or committee shall, if appropriate, appoint a disinterested person or committee to investigate alternatives to the proposed transaction or arrangement. c. After exercising due diligence, the board or committee shall determine whether the Corporation can obtain a more advantageous transaction or arrangement with reasonable efforts from a person or entity that would not give rise to a conflict of interest. d. If a more advantageous transaction or arrangement is not reasonably attainable under circumstances that would not give rise to a conflict of interest, the board or committee shall determine by a majority vote of the disinterested directors whether the transaction or arrangement is in the Corporation's best interest and for its own benefit and whether the transaction is fair and reasonable to the Corporation and shall make its decision as to whether to enter into the transaction or arrangement in conformity with such determination. e. If the board or committee has reasonable cause to believe that a member has failed to disclose actual or possible conflicts of interest, it shall inform the member of the basis for such belief and afford the member an opportunity to explain the alleged failure to disclose. f. If, after hearing the response of the member and making such further investigation as may be warranted in the circumstances, the board or committee determines that the member has in fact failed to disclose an actual or possible conflict of interest, it shall take appropriate disciplinary and corrective actions. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 The organization has no paid officers or employees. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 The organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available upon request.