Montana · Nonprofit
BEARTOOTH RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA INC
BEARTOOTH RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA INC (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,285 to it, the largest being Montana Community Foundation Inc ($32,040). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
BEARTOOTH RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,260 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,260 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Red Lodge Area Community Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Cadeau Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The High Stakes Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 84% · 2018 74% · 2019 60% · 2020 64% · 2021 90% · 2022 71% · 2023 85% · 2024 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of BEARTOOTH RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $13k → $19k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA INC’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 RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
61% of BEARTOOTH RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA INC'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 funders outside Montana, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Red Lodge Area Community Foundationlocalportfolio matchMT · funds 23 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Cadeau Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAZ · backs 13 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The High Stakes Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchMT · backs 22 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Montana Watershed Coordination Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Driggers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Susan Scott Heyneman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Forest Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pleiades Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Norwell Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bonneville Environmental Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Western Organization of Resource Councils Education Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Heart of the Rockies Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding BEARTOOTH RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.7M on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$1.5M
- Department of Commerce$908k
- Department of Agriculture$318k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BEARTOOTH RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BEARTOOTH RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BEARTOOTH RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA INC?
- BEARTOOTH RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA INC (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,285 to it, the largest being Montana Community Foundation Inc ($32,040). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BEARTOOTH RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $52,285 in grants to BEARTOOTH RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEARTOOTH RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA INC?
- Montana Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $32,040 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEARTOOTH RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing