Montana · Nonprofit
BITTERROOT ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS RESOURCE
BITTERROOT ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS RESOURCE (Montana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $189,006 to it, the largest being EVERGREEN KIDS CORNER INC ($81,349). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Rapp Family Foundation Inclocal
- Swantz Family Foundationportfolio match
- National Recreation Foundation Incorporatedportfolio 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: 2018 87% · 2021 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $21k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 BITTERROOT ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS RESOURCE’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
BITTERROOT ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS RESOURCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 BITTERROOT ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS RESOURCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 77% · 2021 100% · 2022 60% · 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
74% of BITTERROOT ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS RESOURCE's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $157 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Rapp Family Foundation InclocalMT · funds 101 organizations near you
- Swantz Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Recreation Foundation Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clif Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Patagoniaorgportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sweetgrass Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rei Cooperative Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Outdoor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alice C Tyler Perpetual Trust Attn Anders Brown Chairmanportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Islands Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Weeden Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reinhardt H & Shirley R Jahn Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like BITTERROOT ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS RESOURCE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BITTERROOT ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS RESOURCE: 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 BITTERROOT ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS RESOURCE?
- BITTERROOT ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS RESOURCE (Montana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $189,006 to it, the largest being EVERGREEN KIDS CORNER INC ($81,349). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BITTERROOT ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS RESOURCE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $189,006 in grants to BITTERROOT ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS RESOURCE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BITTERROOT ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS RESOURCE?
- EVERGREEN KIDS CORNER INC is the largest funder on record, with $81,349 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BITTERROOT ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS RESOURCE 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 6funders 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