Montana · Nonprofit
CUTTING FENCES FOUNDATION
CUTTING FENCES FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,326 to it, the largest being CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ($123,826). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $170k
- Net assets
- $99k
What Cutting Fences Foundation does
Mission
Devoted to strengthening physical and mental wellness through cultivating connection, advocasy, acessibility, prevention and possibility for individuals in agriculture and veterans living with a disability or illness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Grants received to purhcase equipment
$0 spentof which $118,263 as grants0% of program spendingEquipment purhcased to assist disabled agricultural workers in montana
$92,778 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $92,778.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $14k to $76k (+459%).
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.
94% of CUTTING FENCES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $25k → $27k.
From the IRS filings of CUTTING FENCES 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
CUTTING FENCES FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 CUTTING FENCES FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 74% — 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
CUTTING FENCES FOUNDATION draws 83% 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. 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
CUTTING FENCES FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding CUTTING FENCES FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $28k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$28k
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 CUTTING FENCES 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CUTTING FENCES 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 CUTTING FENCES FOUNDATION?
- CUTTING FENCES FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,326 to it, the largest being CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ($123,826). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CUTTING FENCES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $170,326 in grants to CUTTING FENCES FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CUTTING FENCES FOUNDATION?
- CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $123,826 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CUTTING FENCES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), 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