Montana · Nonprofit
BEARTOOTH MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES
BEARTOOTH MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,502 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($78,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $687k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $114k
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Beartooth Mountain Christian Ministries does
Mission
Beartooth christian camp is the place to have a mountaintop experience which leads to life-changing relationships and an eternal impact.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Conference camp program. Beartooth Mountain Christian Ministries hosted faith-centered conferences and retreats that equip youth and adults to grow spiritually, develop leadership, and strengthen families. During the year, we delivered 7 multi-day conferences with 560 total participants, featuring speakers, fellowship, and spiritual renewal in a mountain setting.
$255,359 spentof which $400 as grants$212,943 earned by the program36% of program spendingGuest groups. We make our rural campus and ministry staff available to outside guest groups (churches, schools, and aligned nonprofits) for spiritually formative retreats and leadership development consistent with our faith-based mission. In the year, we hosted 22 groups with 1,979 participants, providing lodging, meals, program spaces, and optional chaplaincy/worship support. This program broadens impact, reduces per-capita costs for our youth ministry, and advances our charitable purpose.
$375,946 spent$278,285 earned by the program53% of program spendingHorse camp. Through our christ-centered horsemanship camps, youth learn riding skills, animal care, teamwork, and biblical character formation. Certified staff and trained volunteers provided instruction, daily devotionals, and small-group mentoring. During the year, we delivered 8 horse camps with 94 total participants.
$78,026 spent$65,123 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $709,331.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $4.6M to $4.2M (−10%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
15% of BEARTOOTH MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Neil Hancock
Executive director
Board chair
Philip Breaux
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $19k → $25k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BEARTOOTH MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BEARTOOTH MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BEARTOOTH MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 55% · 2019 94% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
82% of BEARTOOTH MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $20k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BEARTOOTH MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $114k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BEARTOOTH MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BEARTOOTH MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES?
- BEARTOOTH MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,502 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($78,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BEARTOOTH MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $113,502 in grants to BEARTOOTH MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEARTOOTH MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $78,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEARTOOTH MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing