Montana · Nonprofit
First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc
First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100 to it, the largest being THE STEP FORWARD TRUST ($100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Hansberger Foundationshared funders
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio match
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc’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.
Where its funders are
First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 1 state in all.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Hansberger Foundationshared fundersID · backs 8 organizations that share your funders
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local No 75portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- HD Supply Charitable Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St Mary's Bank Credit Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- J&A Racing Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frank & Victoria Rich Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Bankers Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Loaves & Fishes Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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 First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc?
- First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100 to it, the largest being THE STEP FORWARD TRUST ($100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100 in grants to First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc?
- THE STEP FORWARD TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing