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BLACK HORSE SHOOTISTS

BLACK HORSE SHOOTISTS (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $76,245 to it, the largest being GREAT FALLS SHOOTING SPORTS COMPLEX ($76,245). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$5k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$76k
Net assets
$9k
1/1 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Black Horse Shootists does

Mission

To provide opportunities for club members to engage in the sport of cowboy action shooting. To promote knowledge of the rules of safe gun handling and proper care of firearms, as well as improving in marksmanship. To foster the practice of good sportsmanship, honesty, good fellowship, self-discipline and self-reliance, and an understanding of the value of sports and recreation in modern society. To support compliance with local, state and federal laws. To actively support every law-abiding citizen's constitutional right to keep and bear firearms.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The Black Horse Shootists (bhs) club is building a nine-bay shooting range for the purpose of cowboy action shooting (cas). Bhs also conducts monthly cas matches and works with other groups of shooters on the complex to help faciliate their programs when they need assistance.

    $3,072 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $3,072.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($14k) Expenses 100 ($18k) Net assets -20 ($-2086)2021 Revenue 121 ($17k) Expenses 28 ($5k) Net assets 100 ($10k)2022 Revenue 35 ($5k) Expenses 33 ($6k) Net assets 92 ($10k)2023 Revenue 32 ($5k) Expenses 30 ($5k) Net assets 85 ($9k)
2020202120222023
Revenue (32)Expenses (30)Net assets (85)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $384 to $10k (+2619%).

$384
$10k
$10k
$9k
2020202120222023
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

45% of BLACK HORSE SHOOTISTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,075 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’20
$12k
’21
−$865
’22
−$691
’23
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $29k.

Funder
'17
'18
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of BLACK HORSE SHOOTISTS’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

100% of BLACK HORSE SHOOTISTS's grant income comes from Montana funders.

MT

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BLACK HORSE SHOOTISTS's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−15% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−32% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,891 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2023

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BLACK HORSE SHOOTISTS?
BLACK HORSE SHOOTISTS (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $76,245 to it, the largest being GREAT FALLS SHOOTING SPORTS COMPLEX ($76,245). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BLACK HORSE SHOOTISTS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $76,245 in grants to BLACK HORSE SHOOTISTS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BLACK HORSE SHOOTISTS?
GREAT FALLS SHOOTING SPORTS COMPLEX is the largest funder on record, with $76,245 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BLACK HORSE SHOOTISTS 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 FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 1 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