Montana · Nonprofit
BUTTE AMERICA FOUNDATION
BUTTE AMERICA FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,605 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($180,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $95k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $209k
- Net assets
- $93k
What Butte America Foundation does
Mission
Organization's primary exempt purpose: Our mission is to educate the public by providing information and tools to uphold the tenets of social justice.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
We are the licensee of a low power FM community radio station called KBMF-LP 102.5 FM, which broadcasts music, commentary, entertainment, and information 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. The listening audience benefitting is impossible to count, but is estimated at 800 daily.
$90,005 spentof which $33,000 as grants93% of program spendingThe Foundation puts on the annual St. Patrick's Day and 4th of July parades for the Butte community. The St. Patrick's Day parade attendance is approximately 2000 people. The 4th of July parade attendance is approximately 3500 people.
$3,260 spent3% of program spendingBAmF is the fiscal sponsor of Butte Heart, an organization sponsoring refugees settling in Butte MT.
$3,132 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $96,397.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $53k to $37k (−30%).
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.
41% of BUTTE AMERICA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $500 → $37k.
1 of 7 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 BUTTE AMERICA 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.
How concentrated its funding is
BUTTE AMERICA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 74% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — 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
BUTTE AMERICA FOUNDATION draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BUTTE AMERICA FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 210 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Government funding BUTTE AMERICA FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$30k
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 BUTTE AMERICA FOUNDATION
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.
Public support
100%
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 BUTTE AMERICA 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BUTTE AMERICA FOUNDATION?
- BUTTE AMERICA FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,605 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($180,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUTTE AMERICA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $208,605 in grants to BUTTE AMERICA FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUTTE AMERICA FOUNDATION?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $180,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUTTE AMERICA 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2019–2026), and the filings of 7 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