Montana · Nonprofit
BILLINGS AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL
BILLINGS AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL (Montana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,275 to it, the largest being Scheels All Sports Foundation ($121,875). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $907k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $134k
- Net assets
- $710k
What Billings American Legion Baseball does
Mission
To provide an organized baseball program to area youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Providing a well organized, well coached youth baseball program to feature area youth to college and professional scouts.
$418,387 spent47% of program spendingTo provide youth athletics
$465,552 spent53% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $883,939.
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 2018 to 2019, from $475k to $856k (+80%).
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 3% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of BILLINGS AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Dj Smith
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $200 → $7k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 BILLINGS AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL’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
BILLINGS AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 75% — 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
BILLINGS AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
BILLINGS AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BILLINGS AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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
- Triple Play Academy LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BILLINGS AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL?
- BILLINGS AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL (Montana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,275 to it, the largest being Scheels All Sports Foundation ($121,875). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BILLINGS AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $134,275 in grants to BILLINGS AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BILLINGS AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL?
- Scheels All Sports Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $121,875 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BILLINGS AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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