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Yellowstone Country Montana Inc at a glance

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Yellowstone Country Montana Inc

to promote tourism and travel in the five-county south-central region of montana

$201k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
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, FY2023 to 2025.

Community Improvement$475kArts & Culture$33kRecreation & Sports$25k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $190k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$831k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
West Yellowstone Chamber of C$45,000
Bozeman Area Chamber of Comme$20,000
Colter Pass Cooke City Silver$15,000
Belgrade Chamber of Commerce$15,000
Red Lodge Chamber of Commerce$15,000
Gardiner Chamber of Commerce$15,000
Visit Big Sky$15,000
Sweet Grass County Chamber$15,000
Stillwater County Chamber$12,527
Rocky Mountain Songwriter Fes$12,010
Livingston Chamber of Commerc$10,581
Big Sky Skijoring Association$6,000
Park County Motor Vehicle Par$5,007
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Red Lodge Chamber of Commerce: $15k → 9%Belgrade Chamber of Commerce: $15k → 10%Visit Big Sky: $15k → 10%Absarokee Area Merchants Asso: $8k → 10%Sweet Grass County Chamber: $15k → 10%Colter Pass Cooke City Silver: $15k → 10%Red Lodge Chamber of Commerce: $15k → 9%Belgrade Chamber of Commerce: $15k → 10%Visit Big Sky: $15k → 10%Stillwater Chamber of Commerc: $15k → 10%Sweet Grass County Chamber: $15k → 10%Colter Pass Cooke City Silver: $10k → 10%Red Lodge Chamber of Commerce: $15k → 9%Bozeman Area Chamber of Comme: $30k → 10%Big Sky Chamber of Commerce: $13k → 10%Stillwater County Chamber: $13k → 10%Sweet Grass County Chamber: $10k → 10%Livingston Chamber of Commerc: $15k → 10%Rocky Mountain Songwriter Fes: $12k → 9%Bozeman Area Chamber of Comme: $20k → 10%Stillwater Chamber of Commerc: $9k → 10%Livingston Chamber of Commerc: $14k → 10%Bozeman Area Chamber of Comme: $10k → 10%Livingston Chamber of Commerc: $11k → 10%Big Sky Skijoring Association: $6k → 10%Park County Motor Vehicle Par: $5k → 10%West Yellowstone Chamber of C: $45k → 10%Gardiner Chamber of Commerce: $15k → 10%West Yellowstone Chamber of C: $45k → 10%Gardiner Chamber of Commerce: $15k → 10%West Yellowstone Chamber of C: $45k → 10%Gardiner Chamber of Commerce: $10k → 10%West Yellowstone Chamber of C: $7k → 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$476k · 10 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$476k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+15%

Still filing today

90%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Community ImprovementRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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

  • WY
    WEST YELLOWSTONE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $142k · revenue +8%
  • BA
    BOZEMAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +3%
  • RL
    RED LODGE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • BS
    BIG SKY RESORT ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +15%
  • AA
    ABSAROKEE AREA MERCHANT ASSOC
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0% · 66% of their budget
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
Sky Valley Chamber of Commerce

Community and Business support to encourage economic progress and support business growth.

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2
Leech Lake Area Chamber of Commerce

Attract and inform visitors to and about the leech lake area.

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3
Greater Ketchikan Chamber Commerce

To encourage and assist in the continued development of existing business, education, and life in ketchikan.

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4
Sterling Chamber of Commerce

Promote the City of Sterling Businesses

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5
Washburn Area Chamber of Commerce

Promoting member businesses

Community Improvement
6
Valley County Economic Develop Dba West Central Mtn Eco Develo

Economic development for the west central mountain idaho region

Community Improvement
7
North Country Chamber of Commerce

To advocate for businesses in Northern New Hampshire and Northeastern Vermont

Community Improvement
8
Wise County Va Chamber of Commerce

The organization's activities are centered around promoting the area in order to attract new business and tourism. all residents of the service area benefit from the activities of the organization.

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9
Skamania County Chamber of Commerce

The mission and purpose of the skamania county chamber of commerce is to foster development of a healthy economic community through the support and promotion of businesses, chamber members and skamania county, washington as an exceptional…

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10
Campbell County Chamber of Commerce

The Campbell County Chamber of Commerce seeks to unite all the industrial, commercial, and civic interests in Campbell County; to coordinate the efforts of commerce, industrial, and civic interest in maintaining and strengthening a sound…

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11
Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce

The sheridan county chamber is a catalyst for business prosperity and a champion for a stronger community.

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12
Greater Sitka Chamber of Commerce

The chamber provides business advocacy and promotion for 200 members and businesses

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Sky Resort Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Absarokee Area Merchant Assoc. 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

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEST YELLOWSTONE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $142,000 · OtherWEST YELLOWSTONE CHAMBER OF COMMERCEBOZEMAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $60,000 · OtherBOZEMAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCERED LODGE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $45,000 · OtherRED LODGE CHAMBER OF COMMERCEGARDINER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $40,000 · OtherGARDINER CHAMBER OF COMMERCESweet Grass County Chamber of Commerce: $40,000 · OtherSweet Grass County Chamber of CommerceBELGRADE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $30,000 · OtherBELGRADE CHAMBER OF COMMERCESTILLWATER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $24,000 · OtherSTILLWATER CHAMBER OF COMMERCEBIG SKY RESORT ASSOCIATION INC: $13,497 · OtherLIVINGSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $39,579 · Community ImprovementLIVINGSTON CHAMBER OF CO…VISIT BIG SKY: $30,000 · Community ImprovementVISIT BIG SKYCOLTER PASS COOKE CITY SILVER GATE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $25,000 · Community ImprovementCOLTER PASS COOKE CITY S…Stillwater Chamber of Commerce: $12,527 · Community ImprovementStillwater Chamber of Co…ABSAROKEE AREA MERCHANT ASSOC: $8,055 · Community ImprovementABSAROKEE AREA MERCHANT …ROCKY MOUNTAIN SONGWRITER FESTIVALS INC: $12,010 · Arts & CultureBIG SKY SKIJORING ASSOCIATION: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsPARK COUNTY MOTOR VEHICLE PARK: $5,007 · Recreation & Sports
Other$394,497Community Improvement$115,161Arts & Culture$12,010Recreation & Sports$11,007

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWEST YELLOWSTONE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $142,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetBOZEMAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $60,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetRED LODGE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $45,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetGARDINER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $40,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetSweet Grass County Chamber of Commerce: $40,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetLIVINGSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $39,579 over 3y, 11% of budgetBELGRADE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $30,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetVISIT BIG SKY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSTILLWATER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $24,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBIG SKY RESORT ASSOCIATION INC: $13,497 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetABSAROKEE AREA MERCHANT ASSOC: $8,055 over 1y, 66% of budgetBIG SKY SKIJORING ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetPARK COUNTY MOTOR VEHICLE PARK: $5,007 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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