Montana · Nonprofit
FORT BENTON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
FORT BENTON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION (Montana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,090,482 to it, the largest being LIPPARD-CLAWITER FOUNDATION ($787,554). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $267k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $471k
What Fort Benton Community Improvement Association does
Mission
The fort benton cia promotes economic, civil and social welfare within the community and surrounding area. It furthers recreational and cultural opportunities, helps preserve and restore local heritage and historic treasures, supports worthy causes affecting local citizenry, and works with other organizations that share the common goal of making fort benton and chouteau county a better place to live, raise families, work, play and visit.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The fort benton cia promotes economic, civil and social welfare within the community and surrounding area. It furthers recreational and cultural opportunities, helps preserve and restore local heritage and historic treasures, supports worthy causes affecting local citizenry, and works with other organizations that share the common goal of making fort benton and chouteau county a better place to live, raise families, work, play and visit.
$241,010 spentof which $80,800 as grants$27,251 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $241,010.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $356k to $431k (+21%).
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.
97% of FORT BENTON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $152k → $125k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Fort Benton Community Improvement Association). These are real filings, and they are not money FORT BENTON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of FORT BENTON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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
FORT BENTON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 77% · 2019 71% · 2020 64% · 2021 67% · 2022 72% · 2023 69% — 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
80% of FORT BENTON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
99% of FORT BENTON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Montana funders.
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
FORT BENTON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FORT BENTON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FORT BENTON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION?
- FORT BENTON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION (Montana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,090,482 to it, the largest being LIPPARD-CLAWITER FOUNDATION ($787,554). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FORT BENTON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,090,482 in grants to FORT BENTON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORT BENTON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION?
- LIPPARD-CLAWITER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $787,554 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORT BENTON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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