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Montana · Nonprofit
FORT ELLIS FIRE FOUNDATION (Montana) is funded by 12 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $217,906 in grants to it, the largest being BEYOND BOUNDARIES INSTITUTE ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FORT ELLIS FIRE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 744 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 744 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
$22k from 2 funders in 2024, up from $80k and 3 in 2022.
6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 FORT ELLIS FIRE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
FORT ELLIS FIRE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 63% · 2023 43% · 2024 91% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
FORT ELLIS FIRE FOUNDATION draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Montana — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 12funders 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. view filing