Montana · Nonprofit
BIG SKY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
BIG SKY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,570 to it, the largest being SCL HEALTH - MONTANA ($67,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $175k
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What Big Sky Economic Development Corporation does
Mission
To promote, stimulate, and advance the general welfare and economic development for billings, yellowstone county, and the state of montana.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Recruit businesses to billings and yellowstone county.
$184,074 spent13% of program spendingRecruit, retain, and engage member investors in economic development activities in billings, yellowstone county, and the state of montana.
$143,288 spent10% of program spendingProvide business financing opportunities via a revolving loan program or the sba 504 loan program.
$993,390 spent$648,289 earned by the program68% of program spendingTo promote, stimulate, and advance the general welfare and economic development for billings, yellowstone county, and the state of montana.
$149,743 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,470,495.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $3.7M to $5.2M (+39%).
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: 2023 30% · 2024 23% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of BIG SKY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Steve Arveschoug
Executive director
Board chair
Nick Pancheau
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $95k → $18k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’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 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 61% · 2021 67% · 2022 100% · 2023 56% — diversifying over time.
“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
95% of BIG SKY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k 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
BIG SKY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BIG SKY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record.
- Department of Commerce$1.8M
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 BIG SKY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 Economic Development Authority · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIG SKY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: 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 BIG SKY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- BIG SKY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,570 to it, the largest being SCL HEALTH - MONTANA ($67,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG SKY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $174,570 in grants to BIG SKY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG SKY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- SCL HEALTH - MONTANA is the largest funder on record, with $67,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG SKY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 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 2017–2025), 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