Montana · Nonprofit
BENEFIT BIG SKY
BENEFIT BIG SKY (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,100 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $206k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $207k
What Benefit Big Sky does
Mission
To support initiatives in the big sky community that benefit recreation, education, arts, environment, safety, public works, and infrastructure.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Pond & river restoration: the restoration project is environmentally friendly and will be a community recreational facility that's currently being constructed next to big sky's meadow village. The west fork gallatin river is being separated from little coyote pond with an earthen berm, restoring the stream channel to its natural flow, enhancing the water filtration, improving fish passage and spawning, and dredging the remaining portion of little coyote pond to create a community recreation area. The pond area will be free to the public for anyone to use in perpetuity! It will include fishing docks, beaches, picnic areas, dog friendly specific areas, and kayaking, as well as boardwalk, trail, and ada accessible ramp.
$93,149 spent99% of program spendingTraffic calming: the residential roads around big sky have been greatly impacted due to the significant growth that has occurred over the last several years. Roads used by our commuinity and visitors to access recreation areas include little coyote road, adesite road, and beehive basin road. With growth comes a higher volume of traffic on our residential roads. There are various methods to calm traffic and enhance safety, including construction of speed tables, installation of driver feedback signs, collection of traffic data, and the increase of safety signage. Safety of our community members in top priority. Bbs is participating in a community fundraising effort for this project-advocating for and maintaining the safety of big sky residents and visitors alike is beneficial for everyone in big sky!
$1,253 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $94,402.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $207k to $229k (+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.
97% of BENEFIT BIG SKY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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.
Board chair
Michelle Horning
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 BENEFIT BIG SKY’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
BENEFIT BIG SKY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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
92% 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 BENEFIT BIG SKY.
“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
92% of BENEFIT BIG SKY'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 $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Montana, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BENEFIT BIG SKY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BENEFIT BIG SKY
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Big Sky Owners Association Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BENEFIT BIG SKY: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BENEFIT BIG SKY?
- BENEFIT BIG SKY (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,100 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BENEFIT BIG SKY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $6,100 in grants to BENEFIT BIG SKY.
- Who is the largest funder of BENEFIT BIG SKY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BENEFIT BIG SKY 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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