Montana · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP MONTANA CHAPTER
FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP MONTANA CHAPTER (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,444 to it, the largest being EASTERN CHAPTER OF THE FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP MONTANA CHAPTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,307 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,307 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- The High Stakes Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Missoula Community Foundationlocal
- Driggers Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
25% of FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP MONTANA CHAPTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
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
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50 → $23.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP MONTANA CHAPTER’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.
How concentrated its funding is
FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP MONTANA CHAPTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP MONTANA CHAPTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP MONTANA CHAPTER draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $144 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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.
- The High Stakes Foundationlocalportfolio matchMT · funds 47 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Missoula Community FoundationlocalMT · funds 37 organizations near you
- Driggers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rangeland Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Soka 'Piiwa Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maki Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Liz Claiborne & Art Ortenberg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Yellowstone Coalitionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Defenders of Wildlifeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wilburforce Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cadeau Foundationportfolio 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 FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP MONTANA CHAPTER
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.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP MONTANA CHAPTER: 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 FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP MONTANA CHAPTER?
- FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP MONTANA CHAPTER (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,444 to it, the largest being EASTERN CHAPTER OF THE FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP MONTANA CHAPTER have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $10,444 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP MONTANA CHAPTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP MONTANA CHAPTER?
- EASTERN CHAPTER OF THE FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP MONTANA CHAPTER 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 3funders 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