Montana · Nonprofit
BILLINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
BILLINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,011,932 to it, the largest being HARRY L WILLETT FOUNDATION CO RYAN WILLETT ($543,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year. BILLINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
BILLINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programBILLINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$1.5M
Recipients
39
Contributions on record
$2.0M
Donors on record
28
Payments out are 0.72x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- First Interstate Bank Centennial Youth Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Charles M Bair Family Trustlocalportfolio match
- Johnson Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $51k → $127k.
5 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $15k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Billings Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BILLINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of BILLINGS COMMUNITY 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.
Where its funders are
57% of BILLINGS COMMUNITY 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. $552k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 27 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- First Interstate Bank Centennial Youth Foundationlocalportfolio matchMT · funds 20 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Charles M Bair Family Trustlocalportfolio matchMT · funds 32 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Johnson Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchMT · funds 28 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- GE McDonald Foundationlocalportfolio matchMT · funds 14 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Louvin Foundationlocalportfolio matchMT · funds 11 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Yellowstone County InclocalMT · funds 13 organizations near you
- Fair View FoundationlocalMT · funds 19 organizations near you
- St Vincent Healthcare Foundation InclocalMT · funds 13 organizations near you
- Reger Family FoundationlocalMT · funds 15 organizations near you
- Mary Alice Fortin Foundation for Youth EnrichmentlocalMT · funds 11 organizations near you
- Op & We Edwards Foundation Incshared fundersMT · backs 33 organizations that share your funders
- The Bentley FoundationlocalMT · funds 10 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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
- 404 N 30th LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BILLINGS COMMUNITY 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BILLINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
- BILLINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,011,932 to it, the largest being HARRY L WILLETT FOUNDATION CO RYAN WILLETT ($543,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year. BILLINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does BILLINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $2,011,932 in grants to BILLINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BILLINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
- HARRY L WILLETT FOUNDATION CO RYAN WILLETT is the largest funder on record, with $543,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BILLINGS COMMUNITY 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 27funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing