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Yellowstone Club Community Foundation

The YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION provides resources to qualified nonprofit organizations in the greater big sky and gallatin valley area that promote community service, education, and conservation.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$6.0MEnvironment$3.6MHealth$2.5MEducation$2.0MHousing & Shelter$1.5MPhilanthropy$961kHuman Services$569kYouth Development$468kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 42 grants below total $2,262,620, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,543,974 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $281,354 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $574k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $697k
  • $250k+2 grants · $978k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIG SKY COMMUNITY HOUSING TRU$500,000
BIG SKY SCHOOL DISTRICT$478,000
WELLNES IN ACTION$165,000
BIG SKY COMMUNITY ORG$121,150
THE HELP CENTER$100,000
MORNINGSTAR LEARNING CENTER$85,000
FAMILY REACH$71,155
GALLATIN RIVER TASK FORCE$55,000
GREATER GALLATIN UNITED WAY$50,000
RILEYS URGENT FUND FOR FRIEND$50,000
BIG SKY SNO$45,000
BIG SKY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDAT$40,000
WARREN MILLER PERFORMING ARTS$40,000
EAGLE MOUNT BOZEMAN$30,000
HRDC$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHILD BRIDGE INC: $10k → 18%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FDTN: $30k → 11%CHILD BRIDGE INC: $7k → 18%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FDTN: $15k → 11%HRDC: $203k → 10%HRDC: $146k → 10%THE HELP CENTER: $100k → 10%WELLNES IN ACTION: $165k → 10%HRDC: $87k → 10%HRDC: $71k → 10%WELLNES IN ACTION: $109k → 10%BIENVENIDOS: $48k → 10%HRDC: $30k → 10%HRDC - BIG SKY COM FOOD BANK: $68k → 10%HRDC: $21k → 10%WOMEN IN ACTION: $45k → 10%THE HELP CENTER: $20k → 10%WOMEN IN ACTION: $28k → 10%WOMEN IN ACTION: $20k → 10%BIENVENIDOS: $10k → 10%BIG SKY ROTARY FND: $15k → 10%COMMIT FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%WELLNES IN ACTION: $10k → 10%WOMEN IN ACTION: $10k → 10%WOMEN IN ACTION: $10k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VA: $30k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VA: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 50 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
29

Total granted

$17M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+16%

Still filing today

90%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyHealthRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BS
    BIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8.3M · revenue +298% · 40% of their budget
  • BS
    BIG SKY COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST BSCHT
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue ×12 · 29% of their budget
  • BD
    Bozeman Deaconess Foundation
    3× · 2019–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • TD
    THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $533k · revenue +41% · 27% of their budget
  • BC
    Belgrade Community Library Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $103k · revenue -77%
  • H
    HRDC
    one grant, 2018 · $61k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Scenic Montana Trails
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2
Big Sky Resort Association Inc

Serving as the voice of business, the big sky chamber of commerce champions a healthy economy and works collaboratively with community stakeholders as a conveyor and a catalyst to improve the overall quality of life in the region.

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3
Visit Big Sky

As the community's official destination management and marketing organization, visit big sky leads the development and promotion of authentic tourism experiences through research and stakeholder collaboration to grow big sky's economy…

Community Improvement
4
A Better Big Sky

A better big sky works to inform and engage montanans on issues related to public education, public lands access, voting rights, the environment, sustainable energy, women's health, tribal sovereignty, access to courts, economic justice,…

Community Improvement
5
The Greater Montana Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Gallatin Watershed Council Inc

The Gallatin Watershed Council guides collaborative watershed stewardship in the Gallatin Valley for a healthy and productive landscape.

Environment
7
Montanas Outdoor Legacy Foundation

To collectively serve as a catalyst for engagement and bonding of people to our wildlife and public lands in montana through a sense of place, education, access, research and stewardship.

Environment
8
Save our Gallatin Front Inc
Environment
9
Montana State Parks Foundation

The montana state parks foundation raises private support to enhance the visitors experience and build advocates for montanas state parks and recreation heritage.

Recreation & Sports
10
Montana Conservation Corps Inc

Montana Conservation Corps (MCC) inspires young people through hands-on conservation service to be leaders, stewards of the land and engaged citizens who improve their communities.

Civil Rights
11
Montana Pediatric Cancer Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Montana Healthcare Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Gallatin Valley Inc; the most unlike its peers is South North Nexus. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 87 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/73
Grantees still filing
52/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $8,285,361 · EnvironmentBIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION+7 more: $548,895 · Environment+7 moreBozeman Deaconess Foundation: $1,015,300 · PhilanthropyBozeman Deacones…FRIENDS OF BIG SKY EDUCATION: $590,870 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF BIG S…THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $532,673 · PhilanthropyTHE DISCOVERY LA…ONE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $323,000 · PhilanthropyONE VALLEY COMMU…GREATER GALLATIN UNITED WAY INC: $275,500 · PhilanthropyGREATER GALLATIN…+2 more: $45,000 · PhilanthropyBIG SKY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $924,480 · OtherBIG SKY SCHOOL DIST…BIG SKY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $344,920 · OtherBIG SKY SKI EDUCATI…ARTS COUNCIL OF BIG SKY: $227,903 · OtherARTS COUNCIL OF BIG…THRIVE INC: $169,900 · OtherMONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $139,685 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BIG SKY COUNTRY: $119,050 · OtherBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC: $115,200 · Other+38 more: $1,206,975 · Other+38 moreBIG SKY COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST BSCHT: $1,400,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $13,500 · Housing & ShelterHUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC: $692,120 · Human ServicesWELLNESS IN ACTION: $397,223 · Human ServicesHELP CENTER INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesBIENVENIDOS A GALLATIN VALLEY: $58,000 · Human Services+5 more: $124,372 · Human ServicesMORNINGSTAR LEARNING CENTER INC: $688,652 · EducationBIG SKY DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC dba BIG SKY DISCOVERY ACADEMY: $106,594 · EducationBelgrade Community Library Foundation: $103,000 · EducationWorld Language Initiative MT: $86,202 · Education+5 more: $73,295 · EducationFAMILY REACH FOUNDATION: $131,155 · HealthMONTANA CHILDREN'S HOME AND HOSPITAL: $45,000 · HealthWINDHORSE EQUINE LEARNING: $26,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF MONTANA INC: $20,000 · HealthREALIZE HOPE: $15,500 · HealthYELLOWSTONE BOYS & GIRLS RANCH: $8,750 · Health+1 more: $7,500 · Health
Environment$8,834,256Philanthropy$2,782,343Other$3,248,113Housing & Shelter$1,413,500Human Services$1,391,715Education$1,057,743Health$253,905

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $8,285,361 over 8y, 40% of budgetBIG SKY COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST BSCHT: $1,400,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetBozeman Deaconess Foundation: $1,015,300 over 3y, 11% of budgetHUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC: $692,120 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetMORNINGSTAR LEARNING CENTER INC: $688,652 over 6y, 20% of budgetFRIENDS OF BIG SKY EDUCATION: $590,870 over 8y, 22% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $532,673 over 1y, 27% of budgetWELLNESS IN ACTION: $397,223 over 7y, 24% of budgetBIG SKY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $344,920 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetONE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $323,000 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetGREATER GALLATIN UNITED WAY INC: $275,500 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetGallatin River Task Force: $231,580 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF BIG SKY: $227,903 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetTHRIVE INC: $169,900 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetFAMILY REACH FOUNDATION: $131,155 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBIG SKY SNO INC: $125,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetHELP CENTER INC: $120,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BIG SKY COUNTRY: $119,050 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC: $115,200 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetBIG SKY SKATING & HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $107,650 over 6y, 14% of budgetBIG SKY DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC dba BIG SKY DISCOVERY ACADEMY: $106,594 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetBelgrade Community Library Foundation: $103,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetWorld Language Initiative MT: $86,202 over 3y, 21% of budgetRIMROCK FOUNDATION: $73,662 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCROSSCUT MOUNTAIN SPORTS CENTER: $72,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBRIDGERCARE: $71,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSouth North Nexus: $68,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetCLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION: $64,315 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPROFESSIONAL SKI INSTRUCTORS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAIN DIVISION: $62,000 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetBIENVENIDOS A GALLATIN VALLEY: $58,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetHATCH: $55,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetRILEY'S URGENT FUND FOR FRIENDS: $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GALLATIN NATIONAL FOREST: $47,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetMONTANA CHILDREN'S HOME AND HOSPITAL: $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $44,872 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $40,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMONTANA WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $35,500 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetGALLATIN ICE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGROW WILD INC: $32,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetBRIDGER SKI FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHAVEN: $28,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWINDHORSE EQUINE LEARNING: $26,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetMontana State University Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEART OF THE VALLEY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BIG SKY COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $22,795 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetDIRT CONCERN - SOUTHWEST MONTANA MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION: $20,750 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF MONTANA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Moonlight Community F…One Valley Community …Spanish Peaks Communi…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Montana Community Fou…The Arthur M Blank Fa…Town Pump Charitable …Greater Gallatin Unit…The Rieschel Foundati…Otto Bremer TrustMorton H Meyerson Fam…Bozeman Deaconess Hea…
Moonlight Community FoundationMT74.8× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Moonlight Community Foundation · One Valley Community Foundation · Spanish Peaks Community Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Greater Gallatin United Way Inc · The Rieschel Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Morton H Meyerson Family Foundation · Bozeman Deaconess Health Services

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Yellowstone Club Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Yellowstone Club Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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