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CUT BANK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

CUT BANK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,556 to it, the largest being First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc ($7,399). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$413k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$8k
Net assets
$1.9M
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Cut Bank Education Foundation and Alumni Association does

Mission

Provide grants to School District #15 for the purchase of equipment and educational materials and scholarships for students to continue their education past high school.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide Grants for classroom programs of School District 15 that otherwise would not be available through the school district budget. Also to provide scholarships for students of School District 15 to continue their education past high school.

    $245,045 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $245,045.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($322k) Expenses 100 ($138k) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2018 Revenue 47 ($151k) Expenses 92 ($126k) Net assets 102 ($1.6M)2019 Revenue 43 ($140k) Expenses 101 ($139k) Net assets 102 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 16 ($53k) Expenses 136 ($188k) Net assets 93 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 159 ($513k) Expenses 109 ($150k) Net assets 116 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue -31 ($-98734) Expenses 156 ($216k) Net assets 96 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 55 ($178k) Expenses 139 ($192k) Net assets 95 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 128 ($413k) Expenses 207 ($286k) Net assets 103 ($1.6M)2025 Revenue 128 ($413k) Expenses 100 ($138k) Net assets 121 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (128)Expenses (100)Net assets (121)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 $1.5M to $1.8M (+25%).

$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.5M
$1.8M
$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.6M
$1.9M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

55% of CUT BANK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$184k
’17
$25k
’18
$508
’19
−$136k
’20
$362k
’21
−$315k
’22
−$14k
’23
$126k
’24
$275k
’25
3.3
months of
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.

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Listed141414141414141414
Joined·+3+0+3+1+0+0+0+3
No longer listed·30310003
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $30 → $48.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 CUT BANK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION’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

CUT BANK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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

100% of CUT BANK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Montana funders.

MT

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $157 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CUT BANK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin67% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like CUT BANK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CUT BANK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
CUT BANK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,556 to it, the largest being First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc ($7,399). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CUT BANK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $7,556 in grants to CUT BANK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CUT BANK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $7,399 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CUT BANK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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