Montana · Nonprofit
BUTTE FAMILY YMCA
BUTTE FAMILY YMCA (Montana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,633,149 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($930,909). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Butte Family YMCA does
Mission
The Butte Family YMCA purpose is to build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for each person it serves through programs based on christian values. The YMCA helps strengthen families and build better communities through services that involve Youth Development, Healthy Living, & Social Responsibility.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
HEALTHY LIVING:The Butte Family YMCA provides facilities for approximately 4,500 members. Members use the fitness equipment, fitness classes, aquatics center has water aerobics classes along with other water programming.
$960,707 spent$903,446 earned by the program55% of program spendingSOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY:The Butte Family YMCA provides various afterschool programs, schools day out programs, camps, and other services to its members and individuals in the community of all faiths, races, abilities, and income levels.
$416,406 spent24% of program spendingYOUTH DEVELOPMENT:The Butte Family YMCA conducts various programs including swimming lessions for all ages, swimclub (team), as well as other events like Healthy Kids Day, Pumpkin Swim, and Safety Around Water - 3rd grade learn to swim programs.
$354,580 spent$554,933 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,731,693.
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.
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 $6.2M to $7.3M (+18%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 2% · 2020 4% · 2021 41% · 2022 16% · 2023 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Stephanie Feist
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $225k → $150k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 FAMILY YMCA’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 FAMILY YMCA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
57% 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 BUTTE FAMILY YMCA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 57% · 2019 50% · 2020 54% · 2021 56% · 2022 66% · 2023 61% — diversifying over time.
“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
57% of BUTTE FAMILY YMCA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $702k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $931k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like BUTTE FAMILY YMCA
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.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 FAMILY YMCA: 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 FAMILY YMCA?
- BUTTE FAMILY YMCA (Montana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,633,149 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($930,909). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BUTTE FAMILY YMCA have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,633,149 in grants to BUTTE FAMILY YMCA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUTTE FAMILY YMCA?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $930,909 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUTTE FAMILY YMCA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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