Montana · Nonprofit
BIG SKY YOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION
BIG SKY YOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,266,734 to it, the largest being MONTANA BIBLE COLLEGE ($4,776,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $494k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Big Sky Youth Education Foundation does
Mission
Ensuring that christian education can thrive in montana by supporting billings christian school and montana bible college
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Support to billings christian school and montana bible college; assure students receive a high quality education that will prepare them for a lifetime of leadership, rewarding careers, and service
$648,592 spentof which $453,662 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $648,592.
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 2022 to 2023, from $6.2M to $11M (+72%).
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 4% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of BIG SKY YOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $182k → $250k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 YOUTH EDUCATION 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
BIG SKY YOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 YOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of BIG SKY YOUTH EDUCATION 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. $432k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 YOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BIG SKY YOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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
- Billings Christian Schools Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIG SKY YOUTH EDUCATION 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG SKY YOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- BIG SKY YOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,266,734 to it, the largest being MONTANA BIBLE COLLEGE ($4,776,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG SKY YOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $5,266,734 in grants to BIG SKY YOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG SKY YOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- MONTANA BIBLE COLLEGE is the largest funder on record, with $4,776,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG SKY YOUTH EDUCATION 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 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