Montana · Nonprofit
EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS
EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Montana) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,130,017 to it, the largest being MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($139,634). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $7.4M
What Education Foundation for Billings Public Schools does
Mission
We fuel student achievement by investing in the entire educational experience.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The foundation promotes and celebrates excellence in education by providing resources to educators for creative and innovative teaching, increasing the visibility and value of public education and encouraging lifelong learning by providing educational opportunities for students and staff.
$589,535 spentof which $589,535 as grants46% of program spendingThe foundation provides stem funding to senior high schools, skyview high school, west high school and laurel public high school through the dewey hansen endowment fund
$109,617 spentof which $109,617 as grants9% of program spending: the foundation operations food insecurity programs including backpack meals and school food pantries for the benefit of low-income children in billings public schools facing food insecurity outside of the school day, on weekends and on school breaks. They also operate the munch machine mobile food program in the summer to ensure billings public schools students who face food insecurity in the summer receive nutritional support. By working closely with other organizations in the city, the food insecurity programs have become a part of a coordinated effort to end hunger and poverty in billings.
$348,307 spent27% of program spendingThe foundation offers classroom grants to educators in billings public schools to encourage innovation and excellence in the schools. Applicants must demonstrate effective instruction methods that inspire students to learn. The program generally provides seed money for material costs and curriculum development enabling projects to continue long past the initial funding.the foundation offers donor endowment distributions to educators and students in billings public schools in the form of scholarships and grants consistent with donor restrictions and the foundation's mission on a consistent basis in amounts established by donor intent.
$239,847 spent19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,287,306.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.0M to $6.9M (+37%).
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: 2020 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Kelly Mccandless
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $69k → $124k.
9 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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
EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
59% 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 32% · 2019 38% · 2020 26% · 2021 19% · 2022 27% · 2023 17% — 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.
How long its funders stay
47% of EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
76% of EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $465k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- School District #2 · exempt
- Laurel School District · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
- EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Montana) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,130,017 to it, the largest being MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($139,634). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $1,130,017 in grants to EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
- MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $139,634 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS 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 37 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing