Montana · Nonprofit
Blackfeet Eco Knowledge
Blackfeet Eco Knowledge (Montana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,030,820 to it, the largest being NIA TERO FOUNDATION ($549,820). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Blackfeet Eco Knowledge runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Ndn Collective Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Incshared fundersportfolio match
- First Nations Development Instituteshared fundersportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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.
97% of Blackfeet Eco Knowledge’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Blackfeet Eco Knowledge’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
Blackfeet Eco Knowledge leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 Blackfeet Eco Knowledge.
“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
Blackfeet Eco Knowledge draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 7 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $121k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Ndn Collective Incshared fundersportfolio matchSD · backs 70 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Incshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 46 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- First Nations Development Instituteshared fundersportfolio matchCO · backs 78 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Tortuga Charitable Foundationshared fundersNJ · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
- Potlatch Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kendeda Fundshared fundersDE · backs 65 organizations that share your funders
- Ndn Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indian Land Tenure Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Honor the Earthportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Western Conservation Foundationshared fundersCO · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
- Social Justice Fund Northwestshared fundersWA · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
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.
Government funding Blackfeet Eco Knowledge receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22k on record.
- Department of the Interior$22k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Blackfeet Eco Knowledge
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Blackfeet Eco Knowledge: 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 Blackfeet Eco Knowledge?
- Blackfeet Eco Knowledge (Montana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,030,820 to it, the largest being NIA TERO FOUNDATION ($549,820). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Blackfeet Eco Knowledge have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,030,820 in grants to Blackfeet Eco Knowledge, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Blackfeet Eco Knowledge?
- NIA TERO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $549,820 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Blackfeet Eco Knowledge 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 16funders 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