Montana · Nonprofit
BIG SKY COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST BSCHT
BIG SKY COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST BSCHT (Montana) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,068,996 to it, the largest being YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,400,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $8.5M
What Big Sky Community Housing Trust Bscht does
Mission
The mission of bscht is to enhance the availability of housing to support the local workforce and economy. Bscht helped with construction & hoa management of meadowview, a deed restricted condominium development for local workers. We provided down payment assistance loans. Bscht also works to increase affordable rental opportunities for the community's workforce, increase supply, provide minor property management support, and educate the community regarding rental options.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
THE RENT LOCAL PROGRAM offers cash incentives to property owners in exchange for removing their property from the short-term vacation rental pool and making it available for long-term residential lease to the local workforce. A maximum rent cap, verification of qualified resident, and minimum one-year lease is required by the program. The maximum incentive a property owner may receive is two years. As of December 2022, the program has enlisted 84 properties to house 193 local workforce tenants.
$619,891 spent$18,750 earned by the program62% of program spendingTHE GOOD DEEDS PROGRAM seeks to preserve local workforce access to existing residential inventory by purchasing deed restrictions from homebuyers or homeowners. The deed restriction requires workforce occupancy and prohibits use of the property for short-term rental in perpetuity. Homebuyers generally utilize the funds for down payment assistance and closing costs. As of December 2023, eight deed restrictions have been purchased under the program.
$204,040 spent20% of program spendingTriple Creek Development makes two 3-bedroom single family homes available to the Housing Trust at a minimal cost, for long-term lease to income-qualified (140% AMI) local work force, with rent set at 30% of tenants household income. Net proceeds from the rentals are donated unrestricted to the Housing Trust.
$153,094 spent$176,051 earned by the program15% of program spendingOTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Triple Creek Development makes two 3-bedroom single family homes available to the Housing Trust at a minimal cost, for long-term lease to income-qualified (140% AMI) local work force, with rent set at 30% of tenants household income. Net proceeds from the rentals are donated unrestricted to the Housing Trust. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: THE RIVERVIEW APARTMENTS PROGRAM INVOLVES THE DEVELOPMENT of two apartment buildings for a total of 25 1-, 2- and 3-bedroom apartments. The development was primarily funded with the federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program, and is operated under that programs rules. Apartments are available to income-qualified(60% AMI) families and individuals, with rental rates set at 30% of tenants household income. Occupancy is expected by summer, 2024.
$19,821 spent$29,341 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $996,846.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $972k to $5.4M (+452%).
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 20% · 2021 41% · 2022 47% · 2023 45% · 2024 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of BIG SKY COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST BSCHT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
David Brown
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $140k → $735k.
9 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 BIG SKY COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST BSCHT’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
BIG SKY COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST BSCHT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 BIG SKY COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST BSCHT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 71% · 2021 100% · 2022 60% · 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
75% of BIG SKY COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST BSCHT's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 58% 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
99% of BIG SKY COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST BSCHT'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 $30k that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from funders outside Montana, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
BIG SKY COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST BSCHT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BIG SKY COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST BSCHT
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Bscht Meadowview LLC · disregarded
- Bscht Rva Land LLC · disregarded
- Bscht Riverview LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIG SKY COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST BSCHT: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG SKY COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST BSCHT?
- BIG SKY COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST BSCHT (Montana) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,068,996 to it, the largest being YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,400,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BIG SKY COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST BSCHT have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $2,068,996 in grants to BIG SKY COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST BSCHT, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG SKY COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST BSCHT?
- YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG SKY COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST BSCHT 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.
Play a game about who funds Big Sky Community Housing Trust Bscht →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 12 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