Montana · Nonprofit
FAST BLACKFEET
FAST BLACKFEET (Montana) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,221,043 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,000,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Fast Blackfeet does
Mission
Fast (food access and sustainability team) blackfeet is a nonprofit organization founded by a group of involved citizens who are dedicated to improving food security, providing nutrition education, and reclaiming & building food sovereignty within the blackfeet nation. We recognize that this work is complex, addresses issues that touch on all aspects of our lives, and is a long-term endeavor. Because of this, we welcome collaboration with any organization or individual working to address food sovereignty in our community, county, or state. Our vision is a healthy, strong, and food secure blackfeet nation. The three main pillars of Fast Blackfeet are: improving food security, providing nutrition education, and food sovereignty creating a food secure and sovereign system.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
O'yo'p' food pantry: 11,933families served 45,299individuals served 455,264lbs of food distributed 107,384lbs of rescue food received and distributed 270volunteers 4575volunteer hours worked Fast Blackfeet made a wide-reaching impact in 2025, feeding thousands, expanding nutrition and garden education, strengthening local food systems, and deepening cultural food sovereignty.
$901,887 spent90% of program spendingNutrition education program: 45 nutrition classes and events hosted + 235 class participants + 83 total pharmacy participants 54 new food pharmacy participants 3 new redemption location 51,210 fresh fruit/veg vouchers distributed 19,201 blackfeet buffalo product vouchers distributed
$78,828 spent$44,370 earned by the program8% of program spendingGrowing health program: 229 workshop attendees 830 plants/ seeds / trees / tea sample 66.5 tea/ herb garden donation (ounce) 20.5 volunteer hours worked
$25,533 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,006,248.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.1M to $3.1M (+176%).
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 10% · 2021 97% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% · 2024 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of FAST BLACKFEET’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $11k → $989k.
9 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 FAST BLACKFEET’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
FAST BLACKFEET has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
70% 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 FAST BLACKFEET.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2019 100% · 2020 36% · 2021 56% · 2022 33% · 2023 18% — 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
17% of FAST BLACKFEET's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
FAST BLACKFEET draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
FAST BLACKFEET runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 655 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FAST BLACKFEET
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 FAST BLACKFEET: 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 FAST BLACKFEET?
- FAST BLACKFEET (Montana) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,221,043 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,000,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAST BLACKFEET have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $5,221,043 in grants to FAST BLACKFEET, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAST BLACKFEET?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAST BLACKFEET 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 46 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