Montana · Nonprofit
BILLINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC
BILLINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC (Montana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,595,068 to it, the largest being BIG SKY YOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ($1,439,366). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $801k
What Billings Christian Schools Inc does
Mission
To provide a christ-centered education that develops critical thinking, clear communication, and faithful living.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The operational activity of the school to provide a christian-based full curriculum to approximately 400 students in grades pre. K - 12.
$2,744,060 spent$2,784,859 earned by the program90% of program spendingLunch program: the operation of a hot lunch program to provide healthy meals to students who choose to participate.
$88,491 spent$86,448 earned by the program3% of program spendingAthletics program: the operation of an athletics program to provide students the opportunity to be involved in sports.
$206,363 spent$170,531 earned by the program7% of program spendingBefore and after school care: the operating of a child care program for kids with parents that work and need child care before and/or after school.
$72 spent$32,086 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,038,986.
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 2021 to 2022, from $709k to $1.4M (+100%).
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 12% · 2021 5% · 2022 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of BILLINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Matthew Bonner
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $117k → $581k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS 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
BILLINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 BILLINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 93% · 2020 98% · 2021 97% · 2022 79% · 2023 89% — 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.
How long its funders stay
75% of BILLINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% 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
94% of BILLINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k 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
BILLINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BILLINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Big Sky Youth Education Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BILLINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC?
- BILLINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC (Montana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,595,068 to it, the largest being BIG SKY YOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ($1,439,366). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BILLINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,595,068 in grants to BILLINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BILLINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC?
- BIG SKY YOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,439,366 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BILLINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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