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BIG SKY SKATING & HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC

BIG SKY SKATING & HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC (Montana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $193,150 to it, the largest being YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($107,650). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$193k
Net assets
$8k
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What Big Sky Skating & Hockey Association Inc does

Mission

To provide ice programming which educates and trains people in the big sky community with particular emphasis on providing affordable recreational options for residents and employees, especially for those with more modest incomes.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To provide ice programming which educates and trains people in the big sky community with particular emphasis on providing affordable recreational options for residents and employees, especially for those with more modest incomes.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($159k) Expenses 100 ($171k) Net assets 100 ($511k)2021 Revenue 135 ($215k) Expenses 96 ($164k) Net assets 110 ($563k)2022 Revenue 133 ($211k) Expenses 449 ($767k) Net assets 1 ($7k)2024 Revenue 1 ($1k) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 2 ($8k)
2020202120222024
Revenue (1)Expenses (0)Net assets (2)Peer revenue range

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 $563k to $7k (−99%).

$511k
$563k
$7k
$8k
2020202120222024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 48% · 2021 48% · 2022 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of BIG SKY SKATING & HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,075 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$12k
’20
$52k
’21
−$556k
’22
$1k
’24
0.1
months of
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

Ryan Blechta

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

202020212022
Listed101111
Joined·+1+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $9k → $14k.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 SKATING & HOCKEY ASSOCIATION 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

BIG SKY SKATING & HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

58% 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 SKATING & HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC.

56%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 57% · 2019 69% · 2020 37% · 2021 50% · 2022 86% — 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

58% of BIG SKY SKATING & HOCKEY ASSOCIATION 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 $82k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Montana funders.

MT
MA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BIG SKY SKATING & HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC's revenue fell 99% between 2020 and 2024.

Operating margin100% · outside the comparable range
Revenue growth (annualized)−71% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

65%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BIG SKY SKATING & HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC?
BIG SKY SKATING & HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC (Montana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $193,150 to it, the largest being YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($107,650). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BIG SKY SKATING & HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $193,150 in grants to BIG SKY SKATING & HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BIG SKY SKATING & HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC?
YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $107,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIG SKY SKATING & HOCKEY ASSOCIATION 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.

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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 5 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