Montana · Nonprofit
BETTER BILLINGS FOUNDATION
BETTER BILLINGS FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,558 to it, the largest being GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($15,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BETTER BILLINGS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Scl Health - Montanashared funderslocalportfolio match
- Charles M Bair Family Trustshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Billings Cliniclocalportfolio 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: 2020 17% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of BETTER BILLINGS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $8k → $6k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Royal & Norma Johnson Charitable Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BETTER BILLINGS FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of BETTER BILLINGS FOUNDATION’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
BETTER BILLINGS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 67% · 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 59% · 2023 82% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of BETTER BILLINGS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
81% of BETTER BILLINGS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Scl Health - Montanashared funderslocalportfolio matchMT · backs 20 organizations that share your funders · funds 34 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Charles M Bair Family Trustshared funderslocalportfolio matchMT · backs 16 organizations that share your funders · funds 32 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Billings Cliniclocalportfolio matchMT · funds 13 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- GE McDonald Foundationlocalportfolio matchMT · funds 14 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Kampgrounds of America Foundationlocalportfolio matchMT · funds 17 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mkm Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchMT · funds 14 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Billings Community Foundationlocalportfolio matchMT · funds 14 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inclocalportfolio matchMT · funds 24 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Melvin & Lois Hoiness Foundationlocalportfolio matchWA · funds 11 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Red Lodge Area Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Yellowstone County InclocalMT · funds 13 organizations near you
- Fair View FoundationlocalMT · funds 19 organizations near you
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.
Organizations like BETTER BILLINGS FOUNDATION
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 BETTER BILLINGS FOUNDATION: 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 BETTER BILLINGS FOUNDATION?
- BETTER BILLINGS FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,558 to it, the largest being GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($15,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BETTER BILLINGS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $45,558 in grants to BETTER BILLINGS FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BETTER BILLINGS FOUNDATION?
- GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETTER BILLINGS FOUNDATION 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 9funders 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